Articles on Teacher Training

What are the advantages and disadvantages of "blind observation"- when someone checks everything but the lesson itself?

How to use drilling when presenting or practicing new language, when preparing for an impending exam or to hammer out bad habits (including choral drills, interactive drills, substitution drills, transformation drills and drilling using flash cards)

What are the advantages and disadvantages of peer observations?

Some tips on how you can make workshops work well

The pros and cons of setting-up a TEFL certificate course from personal experience

Personal experiences in setting up a TEFL Certificate course

How to prepare an English conversation lesson for a holistic, structural, four-skills syllabus: an article for new teachers or those unfamiliar with grammar-based syllabus or the PPP model of lesson planning (Present, Practice, Produce).

Some tips on moving into teacher training

How and when to use realia, which consists of actual objects or items or facsimiles thereof, which are used in the classroom to illustrate and teach vocabulary or to serve as an aid to facilitate language acquisition and production.