CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ON A BUDGET

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is mandatory for teachers in order to stay up-to-date with current trends and innovations in your profession. Not everyone is able to enrol in development courses or start an MA due to time limitatons but also to money issues, but thanks to the Internet it is now possible to improve the quality of your work without spending too much (money and time). There are a lot of actions we can take to improve our CPD and I will comment on the ones I have found particularly useful recently.

FOLLOWING THE IATEFL 2015 CONFERENCE FROM ABROAD

One week after Manchester hosted the 2015 IATEFL conference I can now talk about my experience following all the sessions and workshops that were available online. Thanks to the British Council, which offered many of the talks and lots of interviews live, the work of those who attended the sessions and tweeted the main events happening, and those have been actively blogging during the last week, I must say it has been a very enjoyable experience that has provided new insights and thoughts about the concept of English Language Teaching. I would like to express my gratitude to all the people that took part and made it possible.