Professional Development

The internetcan help you to stay up to date professionally. Sites designed for the international English teaching community provide information about books and materials, online and offline resources, jobs, training opportunities and so on.

On line newsletters and magazines are also great places to find and subscribe to mailing lists, discussion groups and bulletin boards.

Many sites offer regular e-mail services, posting lesson plans and resource materials directly to your inbox - materials that you can store and catalogue on your own hard drive.

The British Council runs a number of excellent EFL websites, all of which offer teachers the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of the profession, join discussion groups and find training and development opportunities:

BRITISH COUNCIL TRAINING
BRITISH COUNCIL RESOURCES
BRITISH COUNCIL THINK
BRITISH COUNCIL YOUNG LEARNERS

A link to the UK Guardian TEFL section:

EDUCATION GUARDIAN TEFL

Some sites (professional associations and high quality magazines) may involve paying a subscription fee in order to gain full access to all the materials available:

TESOL HOMEPAGE
THE EL GAZETTE
IATEFL
IATEFL (YOUNG LEARNERS SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP)
ET PROFESSIONAL
ESL MAGAZINE

Bulletin Boards and Mailing Lists are great places to get tips. Check out the examples below:

ESL NEWS MESSAGE BOARDS
DEVELOPING TEACHER


ELT Academic Research can be carried out at:

ITESL JOURNAL

Or via the:

GOOGLE ACADEMIC SEARCH

Your Own Discussion Groups or Forums
We will look at how you can configure your own discussion groups - both for teachers and learner project work, at:

GOOGLE GROUPS

Once I have your e-mail addresses, I will make you members of a group by invitation . We can develop discussions and try to answer questions there between sessions.