DEVELOPOD - The IATEFL TDSIG Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Hosts Christian, Tania and James from the IATEFL Teacher Development Special Interest Group talk about issues within teacher development in various contexts.
Join Christian, Tania and James as they discuss the Web Carnival that took place earlier this year. Find out more about the theme, critical pedagogy, and three of the talks from the event.
Antoine Marcq: https://youtu.be/AqGLYCl0akc
Linda Ruas: https://youtu.be/Jy2VYvHY9F4
Panel discussion: https://youtu.be/VjThS2H1Y1M
Watch all the talks from the conference here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTAlJgv7A4Nyi-THincCnX4i7-S0I0yvR
Bonus: Bjork dismantles a TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDvi-GlKdng
Plus, this is Tania's final episode as a presenter, so a big thank you to her from everyone at TDSIG!
Christian talks to Petra and Eliška, two primary school teachers of English in the Czech Republic. Their classroom-based inquiry projects centre around the topics of differentiation and motivation in the classroom, and their findings reveal how relatively small changes can have a very profound impact.
In this episode of TDSIG’s Developod, James, Christian and Tania discuss Race and Queerness in ELT, via their review of three articles from the recently published second volume of the TDAJ (Teacher Development Academic Journal).
TDSIG held a web carnival in December 2020 on the theme of 'Race and Queerness' and speakers contributed to this edition of TDAJ, a publication which is available to TDSIG members and non-members alike.
TDAJ Vol. 2 (Oct. 2021):
https://tdsig.org/tdaj-v2n1/
TDSIG Web Carnival on Race and Queerness in ELT (Dec. 2020):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTAlJgv7A4NwfZqw_OSoLjKK9-OxOYxsy
Hello ESI group:
https://www.facebook.com/hello.esi.argentina
https://www.instagram.com/hello.esi/
Tania talks to our 2021 Scholarship Winner winner Victoria, and to co-collaborator on TDISG, Irene. They chew the cud on a range of diverse issues such as equity, diversity, inclusivity, racism, sexism, emotional education, action research and English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI). They also review their highlights from the 2021 TDSDIG Pre-Conference Event (PCE) and the 2021 IATEFL online conference.
TDSIG PCE: https://www.iatefl.org/sites/default/files/TDSIG%20PCE%20Program%20-%20links%20to%20recordings.pdf
TDAJ: https://tdsig.org/tdaj-v2n1/
In the latest episode of Developod, James, Christian and Tania reflect back on our interviews with ELT influencers. With contributions from Thais, Jo and Oleg, they look back on what we learnt from speaking to these experts.
If you want to participate in future interviews, let us know by emailing us at tdsig.podcast@iatefl.org - we’d love to hear from you! Be sure to mention who you would like to interview.
Useful link: https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/44630/1/21_03_baraltmorcillogomez.pdf
In this episode we hear from the speakers at our upcoming TDSIG PCE. Uniquely, this year the event will be held after the main IATEFL conference, and it promises to be a great day with Divya Madhavan, Michael Stout, Elena Ončevska Ager and Nermine Abd Elkader providing the talks.
Listen to learn more about their presentations, and we’ll see you on the 31st of July!
Register at https://tdsig.org/pce/
In this episode, James is joined by TDSIG coordinator Tyson Seburn and Katherine Bilsborough from MAWSIG to discuss online conferences. They talk about what they’ve missed about face-to-face events, the advantages of going online and how they think it will be in the future when we return to normality. Plus Tyson and Kath tell us all about their PCEs.
https://tdsig.org/pce/
https://mawsig.iatefl.org/news-and-events/upcoming-events/
This episode is the last in a series of interviews with ELT influencers, chosen by our TDSIG competition winners. The Developod host Christian brings together influencer, blogger, and teacher-trainer Chia Suan Chong, with teacher-trainer Başak. They speak about topics including ‘the imposter syndrome’, native speaker - non-native speaker communication, as well as motherhood and how it may change the way one sees oneself as a teacher.
For show notes, including blogposts mentioned: http://bit.ly/developod30
This episode is the latest in a series of interviews with ELT influencers, chosen by our TDSIG competition winners. This time Tania speaks to Jim Scrivener, who was chosen by Oleg Lesechko. They speak about demand high teaching and how to apply it in the classroom.
This episode is the second part of our look at our web conference with GISIG at the end of 2020. The event centred around Race and Queerness in ELT, and this time we’ll be speaking to two of our presenters, Taylor Veigga and Akemi Iwasa, who spoke about issues related to race.
Taylor’s Presentation at the Web Carnival:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ANcnsEWV8s&feature=youtu.be
Useful Links Taylor mentioned:
www.elllo.org/
www.dialectsarchive.com/
www.nappy.co/
Akemi’s Presentation at the Web Carnival:
youtu.be/konTrYqxxCA
James and Christian reflect on aspects of the recent TDSIG/GISIG web carnival on 'Race and Queerness in ELT'.
In this episode the focus is on inclusion from the point of view of queerness. Christian interviews Adam Scott, who expands on his talk "Making ELT Resources More LGBTQI+ Inclusive".
Adam is a teacher, teacher trainer and materials writer and is also involved in a collaborative teacher development project Brighton Language Teachers
@BLTeachers. He may be contacted on social media @teachadam
Adam Scott's talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiBNRlawIpM&feature=youtu.be
Helen Slee's talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MzvvLIt5Zk&feature=youtu.be
David Valente's talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLsWQZuYuX0&feature=youtu.be
The ABCs of L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/style/lgbtq-gender-language.html
This episode is the third in a series of interviews with 'ELT influencers' chosen by our TDSIG competition winners.
Nik Peachey talks about his early involvement in technology and the likely forthcoming evolutions in language learning technology including artificial intelligence, virtual reality and augmented reality.
Nik is interviewed by Christian and answers questions conceived by teacher, trainer and EdTech enthusiast Tamara Parsons, who was one of the TDSIG competition winners.
Nik Peachey is Director of Pedagogy at Peachey Publications, an independent digital publishing company that specialises in the design of digital learning materials. He has been involved in Education since 1990 and has more than 20 years experience of working specifically with online and blended learning environments.
He has worked all over the world training teachers and developing innovative and creative products and is a two-time British Council Innovations award winner.
His customers include British Council, Eton College, Open University, Google Creative Labs and International House.
His more recent projects have included two years as pedagogical manager for a 100% online school owned by Macmillan ELT, Head of Content development for EtonX a 100% online school owned by Eton College and content developer for an English and Interfaith Dialogue course designed for the British Council and Al-Azhar University in Cairo.
His books include:
Hacking Creativity (Shortlisted for the 2020 British Council award for Innovation in Teacher resources) https://payhip.com/b/HDeb
Digital Tools for Teachers - Trainer's edition (Shortlisted for the 2018 British Council award for Innovation in Teacher resources) https://payhip.com/b/B34N
Thinking Critically through Digital Media https://payhip.com/b/CjXN
Digital Video - A Manual for Language Teachers (Winner of the 2016 British Council award for Innovation in Teacher resources) https://payhip.com/b/5n90
Conversation & Listening - A series of lesson for the digital classroom https://payhip.com/b/7fru
He also co-edited Creativity in the ELT Classroom and Creativity and the Sustainable Development Goals for the British Council
He is editor of the Edtech & ELT Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/technogogy/
Company Website: https://peacheypublications.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NikPeachey
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikpeachey
Tamara Parsons is a teacher, trainer, EdTech enthusiast, conference speaker and founder of ELT.Training, a collaborative organisation with the aim of sharing teacher development ideas.
https://elt.training/
We're reposting this episode from last year because it has disappeared from our feed - enjoy!
This 12th episode brings Christian together with Tania Iveson and James Taylor, forming the new improved version of the Developod team! They introduce a thought-provoking PCE (pre-conference event), from IATEFL April 2019, which was co-hosted by the TD (Teacher Development) and GI (Global Issues) SIGs (Special Interest Groups). The central focus is the somewhat controversial question ‘Are you a social justice warrior?’ The team explores what this might mean, and we hear from a range of speakers and participants from the PCE, as well as the coordinators of the two respective SIGs. Finally, the Developod team mention how they were inspired by other talks at IATEFL and signpost us towards future episodes.
In this, the 25th episode of Developod, we look back on our careers as teachers with the help of the TDSIG committee. Plus we have a chat with our coordinator Tyson Seburn on the history of TDSIG and our upcoming Web Carnival (tdsig.org/webcarnival)
This episode is the second in a series of interviews with ELT influencers, chosen by our TDSIG competition winners. We hear from Jane Willis, who clarifies aspects of Task-Based Learning, for Jo, who is a teacher in Colombia and one of the competition winners.
Show notes including Jane's bio. and useful links are available at: http://bit.ly/developod24
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This episode is the first in a series of interviews with ELT influencers, chosen by our TDSIG competition winners. We kick things off with an interview with drama specialist David Farmer, who was chosen by Thais Olivieri. Tania asks him about introverted learners and how drama can be used for more than just getting students speaking.
Links:
David Farmer’s website:
https://dramaresource.com/
To access his free online course:
https://dramaresource.com/teaching-drama-online/
Other useful links to drama related materials
https://dramaresource.com/useful-links/
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In this episode, Christian, Tania and James look back on the past three episodes and reflect on the themes of teaching online, mental health and the impact of Black Lives Matter on ELT.
Links:
Emergency Remote Teaching Playbook https://mailchi.mp/078478802be2/free-playbook-emergency-remote-teaching
Episodes of Developod discussed:
Episode 19 - Teaching Online https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/developod/episodes/2020-04-15T15_59_04-07_00
Episode 20 - Mental Health With Phil Longwell
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/developod/episodes/2020-05-22T07_39_44-07_00
Episode 21 - Avoiding Burnout With Rachael Roberts
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/developod/episodes/2020-06-18T13_07_30-07_00
Continuing on with the theme of Mental Health, in this episode Tania interviews Rachel Roberts, a teacher, teacher trainer, materials writer, avid blogger, and life coach. Using their own personal experiences as examples, they discuss the causes of teacher burnout, key symptoms and warning signs, and ideas and resources to help avoid and deal with unhealthy stress levels.
https://elt-resourceful.com/
https://life-resourceful.com/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2309506592706916
To mark Mental Health Week in the UK, in this episode Christian interviews Phil Longwell, a teacher, teacher trainer and mental health advocate. They discuss Phil's personal experiences with mental health issues, what ELT employers can do to help their employees, and what teachers can do to manage their own well being.
Phil's blog: https://teacherphili.com/
IATEFL Q&A on Phil Longwell’s Webinar on Mental Health in ELT:
https://www.iatefl.org/news-views/q%26-phil-longwell%E2%80%99s-webinar-mental-health-elt
Screencast Recording from Phil Longwell on Improving the Mental Health of English Language Teachers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijFMplEgKWs
Blog from Phil Longwell on Covid-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing:
https://teacherphili.com/2020/03/21/covid-19-mental-health-and-wellbeing/
Mental Health First Aid Training Courses e.g.:
https://www.sja.org.uk/courses/workplace-mental-health-first-aid/
Free courses:
Understand the Physiological impact of lockdown on our Wellbeing and Mental Health on Maudsley Learning and Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust’s course (the UK's premier mental health training organisation): https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/psychological-impact-of-covid-19
Help Young People Manage Low Mood and Depression with the University of Reading: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/low-mood-during-covid-19
Manage Mental Health and Stress on Coventry University's course: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/managing-mental-health
In this episode, the Developod team talk teaching online. In the last couple of months, teachers the world over have suddenly had to move from their face-to-face classrooms to virtual spaces, so Christian, Tania and James go through some basic tips for teachers and share their thoughts about what this could mean for the future.
To see the forthcoming video version of this podcast, check our social media platforms.
The platform James used was zoom.us. He also mentioned Google Docs and Jamboard. To read his blog posts on teaching online, go to theteacherjames.com/category/teaching-online, and for further reading, check the post "Getting Ready For Our Digital Future" for an extensive bibliography of articles and webinars.
Rejoin the Developod team - Tania, James and Christian in episode 18, where they unearth the What, the How and the Why of action research. James gives tips on best resources to support you.
For our links and references, go to bit.ly/developod18
In episode 17, Tania interviews Patrice Palmer, a specialist in teacher well-being. They discuss teacher autonomy inside and outside the classroom, including aspects such as self-care, representation and mentoring. Christian and James then reflect with their own experiences on the subject.
Reference:
Bogler, R. & Somech, A. Influence of Teacher Empowerment on Teachers’ Organizational Commitment, Professional Commitment and Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Schools. Teaching and Teacher Education: 20 (2004), 277–289
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222396910_Influence_of_Teacher_Empowerment_on_Teachers'_Organizational_Commitment_Professional_Commitment_and_Organizational_Citizenship_Behavior_in_Schools
In Episode 16 of Developod, we catch up with the TDSIG committee who give us their quick tips for quick PD. From TDSIG, we wish a wonderful festive season for those celebrating. See you in 2020!
The ebook on TD mentioned in this podcast may be found at: https://eltplaybook.wordpress.com/
Lucy Norris, independent education consultant, writer and professional development facilitator, talks about the ‘Teaching for Success’ self-study guides that she has helped to produce for the British Council and how they may be integrated into professional development.
Teaching for Success Self Study Guides:
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-success-self-study-guides
Teaching for success: Establishing a culture of Continuing Professional Development (Webinar) - Lucy Norris:
https://britishcouncil.adobeconnect.com/_a917587435/p90n9hxzww5u/?proto=true
World Teachers’ Day Web Conference:
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/world-teachers-day-web-conference
In this episode, Christian talks to Elena Ončevska Ager about her teacher wellbeing course. They discuss the importance of teacher self-care, how her course worked, and the response from the teachers who participated.
Links:
VIA online character strengths survey:
www.viacharacter.org/www/Character-Strengths-Survey
Three good things activity:
https://ggia.berkeley.edu/practice/three-good-things
Other activities:
https://ggia.berkeley.edu/
Other materials:
Mental health awareness in the classroom and beyond (English UK)
www.englishuk.com/en/about-us/news-press/english-uk-news?newsId=2901
How to stay well in the classroom (Phil Longwell)
https://www.englishuk.com/uploads/assets/events/academicconf2019/speaker_presentations/Sat_Phil_Longwell_How_to_Stay_Well_in_the_Classroom_-_being_mentally_fit.pdf
Looking after your teachers (Phil Longwell)
https://www.englishuk.com/uploads/assets/events/academicconf2019/speaker_presentations/Fri_Phil_Longwell_Looking_after_your_teachers.pdf
Mental Health Awareness for Employers within ELT (Phil Longwell - July 2018)(Recorded Webinar available for IATEFL Members)
https://iatefl.adobeconnect.com/_a875541554/pjc9mgq7w90i/?proto=true
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/
www.actionforhappiness.org/
Martin Seligman's Flourish:
www.amazon.co.uk/Flourish-Understanding-Happiness-Wellbeing-psychology/dp/1857885694
Barbara Fredrickson on the power of positive emotions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7dFDHzV36glist=PLtzJzBiAtY1eKNKh81rb6jyvwSQXB5OzR&index=14
Carol Dweck on mindsets: www.ted.com/talks/carol_dweck_the_power_of_believing_that_you_can_improve
Angela Lee Duckworth on grit:
www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_grit_the_power_of_passion_and_perseverance
Apps: Headspace, What's Good
Elena Ončevska Ager is an EFL teacher and teacher educator at Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Republic of Macedonia. She is involved in supporting the development of pre-service and in-service EFL teachers in face-to-face and online contexts. Apart from second language teacher education and online learning, her research interests also include learner/teacher autonomy, group dynamics, motivation and professional wellbeing. elena.oncevska@flf.ukim.edu.mk
Sarah Mercer is Professor of Foreign Language Teaching at the University of Graz, Austria, where she is Head of ELT pre-service section. Her research interests include all aspects of the psychology surrounding the foreign language learning experience from both teacher and learner perspectives. She is the author, co-author and co-editor of several books in this area including, ‘Exploring Psychology for Language Teachers’ (Winner of the IH Ben Warren Prize published by Oxford University Press).
sarah.mercer@uni-graz.at
In Episode 13 of Developod, we follow up on our previous episode on social justice by focusing on the need for greater diversity and inclusion in ELT materials. Firstly, we hear from Sergio Durand, a teacher from Mexico, who explains the current situation. Then, Tania speaks to Ilá Coimbra, co-author of Raise Up!, a new inclusive coursebook. And finally, Christian speaks to Tyson Seburn, TDSIG coordinator and someone who has some views to be heard on the subject of representation. They discuss how teachers can teach more inclusive lessons and Tyson's own materials that he'll soon be sharing.
Links:
Tyson’s blog: http://fourc.ca/somewhere-in-the-middle-cross-post/
Raise Up!: https://taylormadeenglish.com/raiseup/
ALx (Re)Coded: https://joshuampaiz.com/
John Gray at IATEFL: https://youtu.be/zdkR0cz3nlQ
This episode hears from Eduardo Amos, writer of an award-winning series of course books called ‘Students for Peace’ (Richmond Publishing). He talks about the philosophy behind the course book, how teachers can be involved and why peace education is vital in the context of Brazil and worldwide. Plus we hear from Tyson, with news from TDSIG.
In this 10th episode on Experimental Teacher Development Christian talks about 'Positive Discipline' with Tina Wu, who is teaching young learners in Taiwan. Plus we hear from Tyson, with news from TDSIG.
In this 9th Episode on Experimental Teacher Development, we hear about the grass-roots development of Jacob, who is experimenting with Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS) within his young learners classes at the British Council in Taiwan. Jacob highlights the main elements and potential benefits of this approach and gives tips on lesson planning for this collaborative way of storytelling.
In this 8th episode Silvana Richardson, Head of Teacher Development of Bell schools UK, talks about creating an organisation-wide culture of teacher development and the importance of this. Silvana zooms in on a few elements of the teacher development programme which listeners may be less familiar with, namely ‘supported experiments’, ‘lesson study’ and ‘learning walks’. She also gives an overview of the idea of ‘INSPIRE’ development, which was the title for a talk that Silvana delivered with Gabriel Maggioli at IATEFL 2018. 00.57-10.27: Establishing and reviewing a culture of CPD 10.27-26.25: Supported experiments, Lesson Study, Learning Walks and other tools for CPD 26.25-29.27: ‘INSPIRE’ teacher development
The Feedback Episode: This 7th episode centres around the potentially polemic question of how to give and receive feedback within the setting of both official and peer observations of teachers. Christian Tiplady and Matthew Noble introduce Ideas for how we may more usefully approach developmental feedback to guide it a non-judgemental way. They incorporate inspiration from fields of research such as ‘Cooperative Development’ and ‘Non-Violent Communication.’
In this 6th Episode Christian Tiplady and Matthew Noble introduce a range of teachers - both less and more experienced - who are answering the question: "What one concept has been catalytic to your own development as a teacher?" Listeners are asked to consider the same question and how this concept has influenced their own development.
In this 5th bonus episode Matthew Noble introduces an interview with Gerhart Erasmus before the IATEFL 2018 conference, as well as Gerhart’s reflections post conference. Gerhart was the winner of the TDSIG Michael Berman scholarship for 2018. Matthew gives you an overview of how you can apply for the 2019 scholarship.
In this 4th episode in the Developod Series, Adrian Underhill talks about his learning at IATEFL 2018 (in Brighton, UK), about emancipatory teaching, and about the difference between communication and expression.
The third Developod Episode from IATEFL’s TDSIG. The theme is ‘Keeping up your Mojo’ and we hear from Maria and Duran on how they have been keeping up their teacher development.
In this, the second episode of the TDSIG podcast, Christian Tiplady asks a number of teachers at varying stages of their careers to share with us their new beginnings and teacher development resolutions!
‘The Introview’: In the very first Developod, we find out about the TDSIG: What is TDSIG and who is involved? What does TDSIG do for teachers? And how can language teachers and other interested parties be involved?