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Training & Development

Since 2015, I have been writing and delivering development workshops at teacher conferences at a local and national level, as well as designing and running in-house CPD programmes. Please contact me if you would like to discuss this further.Continue reading “Training & Development”

13Mar 202213 Mar 2022

Are we making tomorrow’s text any easier?

In the first in a series of posts on teaching and developing learners’ receptive skills, I want to question whether…

14Mar 202114 Mar 2021

Student-centred model writing texts

Experimenting with before and after writing models At TESOL Spain Online 2021 I explored ways of teaching B1 students to…

13Feb 202113 Feb 2021

What’s at the heart of your lesson?

If you’re anything like me, you’re in a constant battle with time. There are often a few details that never…

Are we making tomorrow’s text any easier?

13 Mar 202213 Mar 2022

In the first in a series of posts on teaching and developing learners' receptive skills, I want to question whether we always have our learners' best interests at heart when…

What’s at the heart of your lesson?

13 Feb 202113 Feb 2021

If you’re anything like me, you’re in a constant battle with time. There are often a few details that never make it from plan to lesson because of emergent language,…

blended learning…

Homework: Is it useful, and can we make it any better?

16 Jan 202116 Jan 2021

‘…language lessons in and of themselves are not sufficient to bring language learning about and to lead to eventual proficiency. If the lessons – whether they are once a week,…

In a word… What word will you choose for your 2021?

5 Jan 20215 Jan 2021

Twenty-twenty-one is here! Hooray, hoorah! Actually, the news so far seems just as glum as last year, and it seems to me that we need more than ever to take…

Language Teaching for the Planet

30 Oct 20206 Jan 2021

Catherine is a school teacher in Mboni Secondary School in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Each month, many of the girls in her classes missed school because they…

Mental health in the staffroom

16 Oct 20207 Nov 2020

When the dust started to settle after the end of the 2019-20 academic year, it became clear that 'lockdown' had put enormous strains on teachers across the globe. As the…

Student-centred model writing texts

14 Mar 202114 Mar 2021

Experimenting with before and after writing models At TESOL Spain Online 2021 I explored ways of teaching B1 students to become better writers. The session was based on some work…

Confessions of a conference junkie

27 Nov 202027 Nov 2020

Let’s start this one with an activity. Get a piece of paper and a pen or pencil. Think about the last conference you ‘attended’, and list all the talks and…