On this page you’ll find…

• Teacher development listicles
• Teacher development posts
• Reflections on my teaching practice and about blogging
• Webinar and conference summaries
• Guest posts
• Some humour…

I hope you find something interesting/useful!

Development lists

15 ELT educators to follow on LinkedIn

by Pete August 11, 2020

Useful links: Project-based learning

by Pete April 19, 2020

12 conversation strategies worth teaching

by Pete February 21, 2020

20 great video sites for the EFL classroom

by Pete November 19, 2018

30 tips for developing teachers

by Pete August 30, 2016

12 tips for writing TEFL lesson plans

by Pete May 25, 2016

10 useful websites for ELT

by Pete May 20, 2016

15 ways I’ve developed as a teacher this year

by Pete December 19, 2015

16 ways to improve your whiteboard work

by Pete September 28, 2015

Teacher development

Jason Anderson and the TATE

by Pete May 7, 2021

Tips for writing secondary materials, ELTA Rhine

by Pete April 29, 2021

Reflection: Steps towards materials-light teaching

by Pete August 10, 2020

ELT Twitter chats

by Pete February 6, 2020

More on developing meaning-building skills in reading

by Pete October 1, 2019

Training: Improve your whiteboard work

by Pete June 11, 2018

1000 words on… Correcting spoken errors

by Pete May 14, 2018

Integrating technology in the EFL classroom

by Pete October 30, 2017

Reasons to explore your staffroom

by Pete January 11, 2017

Planning tasks for young learners

by Pete September 22, 2016

Writing for ELT magazines

by Pete July 27, 2016

Top Tips: Teaching at UK summer schools

by Pete April 24, 2016

Help please: Frayer models

by Pete December 16, 2015

EFL Classroom Management Techniques

by Pete December 8, 2015

It’s your move… helping students manage spoken discourse

by Pete September 11, 2015

Reflections

Interview task: Optimising the development of SLA in an international school

by Pete January 17, 2026

Another year in review

by Pete December 18, 2024

‘What a good lesson looks like’

by Pete July 23, 2024

Implementing the Bell Assessment Framework

by Pete October 25, 2023

11 Great ELT Editors

by Pete July 15, 2023

Back to the classroom!

by Pete July 9, 2023

Intensive English programmes – what to include?

by Pete July 6, 2023

Intensive English programmes at international schools

by Pete July 5, 2023

My first experience as a Lead Author

by Pete June 19, 2023

WalkThrus parent workshop – Tom Sherrington

by Pete May 2, 2023

EAL support for disciplinary writing

by Pete March 17, 2023

Embedded formative assessment (New Directions)

by Pete March 11, 2023

Going freelance

by Pete September 28, 2022

Reflections on my EAL role

by Pete July 13, 2022

How can the British Council turn it around?

by Pete April 5, 2022

Year in review

by Pete December 19, 2021

More EAL presentation tasks

by Pete November 26, 2021

A connected curriculum?

by Pete November 14, 2021

Some regular EAL activities

by Pete November 14, 2021

Before I became a teacher

by Pete July 17, 2021

Towards building a whole-school approach to EAL

by Pete June 15, 2021

Jamboard (so far)

by Pete January 19, 2021

Year in review

by Pete December 20, 2020

RIP LTC Eastbourne

by Pete November 20, 2020

Bad teaching

by Pete November 18, 2020

Be like Walton Burns

by Pete November 9, 2020

Monetizing your teaching blog

by Pete October 11, 2020

New teacher induction

by Pete October 10, 2020

One million visitors!

by Pete July 7, 2020

Peer observation and online teaching

by Pete May 14, 2020

Self-observation of online teaching

by Pete May 12, 2020

My new normal

by Pete May 7, 2020

All change!

by Pete April 26, 2020

Parents and online learning

by Pete March 26, 2020

Dialogue in ELT

by Pete October 22, 2019

What are good working conditions in ELT?

by Pete October 9, 2019

Tweaking my young learner teaching

by Pete September 10, 2019

Guest posts

Guest post: Student and teacher reflection journals

by Pete August 1, 2020

Flappy Drills – ‘Class, say after me…’

by Pete June 2, 2017

Assessment Capable Learners in the primary classroom

by Pete May 30, 2017

Distance learning for teachers – is it right for you?

by Pete August 11, 2016

Reflection on CELTA and Trinity TESOL Courses

by Pete August 7, 2016

How to write CELTA lesson plans

by Pete July 10, 2016

How to survive a CELTA course

by Pete July 1, 2016

How to become an English teacher

by Pete June 30, 2016

5 great tips for new teachers

by Pete February 17, 2016

Great formative assessment tools

by Pete January 25, 2016

Webinars and conference summaries

ELTea Time Chat: Digital Teaching Skills

by Pete June 27, 2022

Webinar: The Value of Gamification for Language Learning

by Pete February 22, 2019

Webinar: Teaching English pronunciation for the real world (Laura Patsko)

by Pete January 3, 2019

Webinar notes: What about principles for materials development? (Brian Tomlinson)

by Pete September 15, 2018

IATEFL 2017: Does feedback work?

by Pete April 8, 2017

IATEFL 2017: Developing teacher talk

by Pete April 6, 2017

IATEFL 2017: Integrating pronunciation

by Pete April 4, 2017

The role of research in TEFL

by Pete October 25, 2016

Digital Breaks – James Styring

by Pete September 12, 2016

Research summaries

Research in brief: Disciplinary literacy and verbal language in PE

by Pete January 4, 2026

Research in brief: Harnessing the translanguaging corriente

by Pete December 18, 2025

Research in Brief: Input Enhancement and L2 Grammatical Development

by Pete October 29, 2025

Research in brief: Language ideologies and pedagogical tensions

by Pete October 17, 2025

Conventional, common-sense vocabulary and grammar instruction (Boers)

by Pete October 18, 2024

Culturally sustaining pedagogy

by Pete April 1, 2024

In brief: Changing Perspectives on LGBT Representation in ELT Textbooks

by Pete April 11, 2023

Research in brief: Communicative and task-based language teaching in East Asian classrooms

by Pete April 30, 2022

Research in brief: Critique of BICS and CALP

by Pete October 25, 2020

Research in brief: Alderfer ESL Program Assessment Tool

by Pete October 8, 2020

Research in brief: reading disruption of a textbook

by Pete December 9, 2019

Tip: A planning matrix for research (Cohen et al, 2005)

by Pete July 10, 2018

Humour

TEFL Tiglets #2

by Pete February 4, 2019

Funny ELT illustrations

by Pete June 5, 2017

Teachers – which sea creature are you?

by Pete March 11, 2017

TEFL sniglets – ‘tiglets’

by Pete November 18, 2016