I teach at the Escola Oficial d’Idiomes de Castelló, a state-run school that offers adult learners tuition in eleven languages. A group of teachers from different language departments started a teacher development group, which we call a community of practice. We’ve been running for three years now and Fiona Mauchline, from the TDSIG (Teacher Development Special Interest Group) of IATEFL asked me to contribute something to their October e-bulletin. The focus was on the setting of challenges and resolutions for the new teaching period, and what I did was enlist the help of ‘The Friendly Teachers’ and record a video about our teacher development group and our challenge for 2017/18.
The Friendly Teachers is the YouTube channel my colleague Sonia Vecino and I started about a year and a half ago. The idea was to produce short videos with tips and reflections for students of English, but when our friend and Italian teacher Anna Venuto joined us a couple of months later the videos became bilingual! We’ve also been recording vlogs at ELT conferences we’ve attended. Subscribe!
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