Here is a list of all the reviews on my blog. Bear in mind the review date. Sites might change, books might have a second edition, I might understand more about a topic now, etc.

Note: the * shows that at the time I didn’t give the resource a rating, so I’ve added it now.

Books

2024 Be More Toddler: A leadership education from our little learners (4.3/5)

2023 Teaching WalkThrus (4.6/5)

2023 Off the Page: Activities to bring lessons alive and enhance learning (4.2/5)

2023 Memory – What Every Language Teacher Should Know (4.5/5)

2023 A Comprehensive Language Coaching Handbook (*4.4/5)

2023 Academic Writing: Mastering Citation and Referencing (4.7/5)

2022 50 Ways to be a Greener Teacher (4.5/5)

2022 101 Activities for Teaching University Students (4.5/5)

2021 History’s Mysteries (4.7/5)

2021 Work It Out with Business Idioms (4.5/5)

2021 Retrieval Practice (4.2/5)

2020 English for Business Communication (*3.66/5)

2020 21st Century Skills in the ELT Classroom (4.25/5)

2020 Work It Out with Phrasal Verbs (4.5/5)

2020 Routledge Handbook of Teaching English to Young Learners (*4/5)

2020 Rosenshine’s Principles in Action (3.9/5)

2020 How Global Capital is Remaking International Education (3.5/5)

2020 Barry Reinvents Himself (4.325/5)

2020 Silly Shakespeare for Students (4.9/5)

2020 The Learning Power Approach (4/5)

2019 Play for the Planet (4/5)

2019 A-Z of ESOL (*4.2/5)

2019 Teaching English as a Lingua Franca (4.5/5)

2019 Egghead (3.5/5)

2019 Loving London (4.5/5)

2019 Vocabulary in Pictures (*4.2/5)

2018 Stories Without End (*4.5/5)

2018 ELT Lesson Observation and Feedback Handbook (4.5/5)

2018 Great Writing (4.6/5)

2018 Her Own Worst Enemy (4.5/5)

2017 Successful Group Work (*4/5)

2017 Community Classroom Builders (*4/5)

2016 Incredible English (*4.3/5)

2015 Punctuation..? (*3/5)

Training courses/modules/providers

2024 Assessment Only Route to QTS (University of Sunderland) 5/5

2023 Bell Foundation: EAL Coordinators – organising impactful EAL provision (4.4./5)

2022 Avallain Author Training (4.4/5)

2021 PGCEi through University of Nottingham (4/5)

2020 PGCEi Module 2 (*4.5/5)

2020 PGCEi Module 1 (*4.7/5)

2019 Spoken Grammar (5/5)

2019 Evaluating Digital Materials (5/5)

2019 NILE Tech-assisted Language Learning (4/5)

2019 NILE Materials Development (4.5/5)

2018 ELT Training Library from Language Fuel (4/5)

2015 How to Teach IELTS (*4.5/5)

2016 Dyslexia and Foreign Language Teaching (4.5/5)

Online resource sites

2023 TEFL Training Institute (*4.5/5)

2020 ELT Publishing Professionals (*4.5/5)

2020 Read to Run (*Rating 3.5/5)

2020 EAL Hub

2020 NILE Membership (*4.5/5)

2019 Wordwall for vocabulary games (*4.5/5)

2018 Fluentize video lessons (4.5/5)

2015 Newsmart (4.5/5) RIP ☹

Apps

2020 Teacher Tapp (Rating 3.8/5)

2020 Studycat (3.5/5)

2020 Learn Thai Duolingo-style (*4/5)

2017 ELSA Speak Pronunciation App (*4/5)

2017 British Council Apps (*Rating probs averages out at 4/5 but this one is a bit vague)

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