Cambridge Train the Trainer

After reading Rodrigo Sigoli’s article about the Cambridge Train the Trainer, I decided it would be suitable to have my first post of the year about my experience taking the course. I haven’t written here in ages and hopefully this will be a reminder to use this blog...

Professional development : who pays the bill?

If you are reading this, you are a teacher that seeks professional development. This text is an example of free professional development; so are websites like this one, twitter and Facebook groups such as BrELT. There is also another type of professional development...

Where have you been?

That’s a question I get a lot. I haven’t posted here in a while and have certainly been less active on Twitter. I’m still pretty active on Facebook, though, especially at BrELT, a network of teachers I love to help moderate. Since my last post,...

Teaching online with Jack Askew

‘Not everybody can be an entrepreneur’, you probably heard this before way too many times. It’s almost like entrepreneurs are a special, genetically-modified type of race. Not everybody can be an entrepreneur because not everybody wants to be an entrepreneur (and...