Blogs
Suggestions on Updating CELTA
Unless you are a teacher, I doubt you would be familiar with CELTA. I didn’t either until 2013 when I started researching the quickest way to become...
Lesson Planning with Learners
Two months ago, I started an informal mentorship program with one of the batchmates I got to know on the GMILE course with Scott Thornbury in 2021....
Educators Share Best and Worst (EL)Teaching Practices
In the first week of January, this year, Ross Thornburn celebrated the 200th episode of his podcast by asking two, in my opinion, pivotal questions...
Teaching Reading
A few weeks ago, Rachel had published a post sharing her first DELTA input session reflection, which dealt with ‘teaching reading’ and urged readers...
Influencing Learning
One of the ways I try to inculcate the habit of reading among my learners is to choose a book that is highly relevant for their career or education...
Teacher Motivation & CPD
Let me say this right off the bat, the inspiration for writing a blogpost on a podcast I recently listened to comes from reading Rachel Tsateri’s...
NILE TD Series (part 3): Supportive Trainer Talk + Action
“Actions speak louder than words.” Not sure if I totally agree with the statement though there is some truth in it, which I would like to explore in...
NILE TD Series (part 2): Activity 3.1 ‘Who and what have influenced your professional development?’ re-visited
Have you experienced a difference in the effectiveness of your delivery of the same lesson facilitated the second time around? It could be an hour...
Trainer Development Series: Part 1
An effective way to master new knowledge is to articulate it in a way that others can comprehend. In this series of blogposts, I am going to try and...
What is speaking fluency and how to develop it among learners?
Speed. Ease. Level of comfort. Task achievement. Comprehension. Those were some of the words used to describe fluency (for this post, I shall...
How do I make my activities more ‘meaningful’ for my learners?
The CLT approach to teaching, which I learned in my pre-service teacher training, focuses on learners’ participation in meaningful interaction in...
Planning for and Taking a Proficiency Test
In this post for Rachel’s blog site, I had planned to take the Thai proficiency test at the end of last year, which I did last month, and the scores...