On Why The (Unplugged) Revolution Will Not Be Televised
(Gil Scott-Heron reciting The Revolution Will Not Be Televised) There is nothing like a conference to re-ignite debate. Last week saw the IHDOS Conference in London, a wide-ranging forum for middle and...
View ArticleWhat makes a lesson GREAT? Part 1 (and a postscript)
This was the question posed by Mike Harrison on the IATEFL facebook page recently. Considering the space constraints of commenting on a platform like that, and given my Faible for whimsical responses...
View ArticleWhat makes a lesson GREAT? Pt. 2
This is the second instalment of a series of five posts that I have started in order to expand on a short answer I gave to Mike Harrison over on the IATEFL Facebook group page in response to the...
View ArticleWhat makes a lesson GREAT? Part #3
This is the third installment in a short series of posts inspired by a question posed by Mike Harrison – you can give him your own answer on the IATEFL Facebook page. To recap, I thought the following...
View Article3 things beginning with E
I spend almost all of my professional life doing one of two things: observing the work of trainee teachers on Celta initial teacher training courses, or observing the work of Celta tutors in my role as...
View ArticleCelta Hamburg Podcast Episode 2
I just made a short podcast for my current Celta trainees up here in Hamburg, where I talk a bit about our general approach to training, teacher talk, language grading, task-setting, work management...
View ArticleUnplugged Radio Episode 6 – The Whites Of Their Eyes
Hello! Welcome to Teacher Training Unplugged Radio – my name is Anthony Gaughan. (if you can’t see the podcast player above, click this link for the audio.) There has been quite a long gap between...
View ArticleSo you want to be a Celta trainer? Part 1: getting to the starting line
Who says so? You do. You have been asking for help and advice on social media about the ins and outs of getting trained up as a Celta trainer. This gave me the impetus to collect what I know and what...
View ArticleSo you want to be a Celta trainer? Part 3: Ready…?
This is part three of a series of posts on the ins and outs of training to be a Celta trainer. You can find part one and part two by clicking on those blue links you have just read past. Go ahead and...
View ArticleSo you want to be a Celta Tutor? Part 4: Set…
This is a series of posts on the ins and outs of becoming a Celta trainer. You can find the previous posts here: part one, part two, part three. Pre-course? The purpose of the pre-course training...
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