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• Review: How Global Capital is Remaking International Education

  By Pete on August 19, 2020 • ( 7 )

  

  The full title is … How Global Capital is Remaking International Education: The Emergence of Transnational Education Corporations. In this Springer Brief publication from 2019, Hyejin Kim considers the impact of corporate interests in the international education sector. Kim focuses… Read More ›

• 15 ELT educators to follow on LinkedIn

  By Pete on August 11, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  If you’re fairly new to LinkedIn as a teacher/writer then here are a few suggestions for who to follow. Some of these people are on Twitter too, but I come across them more on LinkedIn as my feed isn’t as… Read More ›

• Reflection: Steps towards materials-light teaching

  By Pete on August 10, 2020 • ( 6 )

  

  Me, Matt and Tiago chatted about lots of topics at the first Bangkok ELT Books n’ Beer session last night. Great fun! The topic of materials-light teaching and dealing with emergent needs came up. Tiago is on a Celta to… Read More ›

• MA, PGCEi or Diploma?

  By Pete on August 3, 2020 • ( 5 )

  

  Question from a reader: I’m after some advice. I can’t decide which professional development course to do. I have a CELTA plus five years’ teaching experience and I’ve been thinking for a while about doing a DELTA or Dip. Then… Read More ›

• Guest post: Student and teacher reflection journals

  By Pete on August 1, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  It’s been a while since a guest post on ELT Planning. Michael Walker is a PGCEi-qualified teacher who has spent a while teaching EAP at a university in the Republic of Korea. In this cool post, Michael describes the impact… Read More ›

• Finding work as an ELT author

  By Pete on July 26, 2020 • ( 8 )

  

  I haven’t shared any tips for new writers for a while, not since my post on how to find commissioning editors. So, here it goes. There’s nothing wrong with building connections at big publishers like Pearson, Macmillan, CUP, OUP, NGL… Read More ›

• Review: Teacher Tapp

  By Pete on July 20, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  Teacher Tapp (TT) is a survey app for teachers. Every day at 3.30pm (UK time) teachers are asked three multiple-choice questions related to their professional life, practice, wellbeing, etc. Once answered, users can then see the results from the previous… Read More ›

• One million visitors!

  By Pete on July 7, 2020 • ( 5 )

  

  This blog is about to reach a milestone. By, I guess, Friday it will have had 1 million visitors. Thanks to my awesome PLN for all your support, comments, and interest! When Martin Sketchley persuaded me to start blogging a… Read More ›

• Materials writing news and views, July 2020

  By Pete on July 7, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Last update before a nice break, woohoo! New releases Another one for Paul Ashe (with Jeremy Bowell) – Prospects. I’ve seen Paul’s name around a bit recently. IH are running a course in online tutoring, he’s listed as a tutor… Read More ›

• Review: Barry Reinvents Himself

  By Pete on July 2, 2020 • ( 4 )

  

  Barry Reinvents Himself is a TEFL-lit novel by C.Cotterill (aka Twitter’s @ContinuouslyT). After being kicked out of a minor prog-metal band, Birmingham-based Barry looks to shake his old image and bounce back. Lured by images of an old college mate… Read More ›