Welcome to our PD Bulletin Archive!
Each month’s bulletin is gathered here, so you can easily revisit resources, strategies, and updates whenever you need. Use this page to explore past bulletins, catch up on insights you may have missed, and access valuable tools to support your ongoing professional development journey...
Blogs To Follow! ( in no particular order)
British Council Teaching English
The Teacher James
Tefltastic
An A-Z of ELT by Scott Thornbury
AUSFL PD
An Online Conference: English Language Teaching Online Conference
A Webinar: Developing Skills For Global Communication
A Course: Teacher Training: Roles And Responsibilities Of Educators
A Podcast: Motivation & Social Learning: What Really Drives Learners Today?
An Article: Ai Guidelines For Teachers
Global Teacher's Festival: A program focusing on various, current topics.
A Webinar: Homework that's actually fun thanks to online practice.
An Article: Can AI build student confidence and resilience
An Online Course: Digital competences for teaching English
A Webinar: Introducing Shining Lights: Empowering learners to shine in English and beyond
A Webinar: Empowering self-study with Generative AI: smarter study skills for today's learners
A Webinar: The “Agency Dilemma”: Balancing GenAI Efficacy with Learner Independence
An Article: Hype, fear, and everything in between: A critical typology of responses to AI and their implications for language teacher education
An Article: Using ChatGPT as a “Friend” in reflective critical friendships
Mentoring Session: Free 1-hour drop-in mentoring session for ESL/EFL teachers
A Course: Planning Lessons
A Blog Post: 12 (Nearly) Useless Things Language Teachers Do When teaching Grammar
A Course: How to Teach Vocabulary
Webinars: Creative Lesson Planning
Courses: Global Online Courses: Winter Term
Live Event: Preparing Teens Day
An Event: A conference for ELT teachers!
A Blog Post: AI in the Classroom: Personalised Learning
A Resource Book: Gender-in English language classes across the globe
A Webinar: Integrating Learning and Assessment
A Course: The Creative Classroom
A Webinar: I teach with AI
A webinar: Advancing Assessment Day
A Podcast: How Can We Motivate Our Students?
A Podcast: The Impact of AI in ELT
An Article: Professional Training on AI for ELF Instructors
A webinar: Understanding your learners
A Webinar: Asia Talks with Oxford: Read your Way to Better English
A Course: How to Teach Speaking
A Conference: BBELT 2025- Shaping Brighter Futures through ELT
An E-Book: AI Activities and Resources for English Language Teachers
A Journal: Understanding my learners
A conference: ELTOC!
An Interview: Nick Peachey on Ed-Tech in the clasroom
A Resource Book: Gender-in English language classes across the globe
An Online Conference: Regional Cambridge Day!
Computers Education: Artificial Intelligence
30 Years of TEFL / TESL: A personal reflection
Translanguaging in the ELT Classroom
A Course – Making time for research in the English classroom
A Blogpost – Does ChatGPT enhance learning (or does it make you stupid)?
A Webinar – Developing as teachers – mini-event
A Resource Pack – AI activities and resources for English language teachers
A Journal Article- Beyond ELT: more than just teaching language
A blogpost: How AI-powered marking is changing language assessment
A Webinar: Helping our learners develop
A Course: Teaching English: Communication Skills
A Podcast: How can I use different languages in my teaching?
An Article: Exploring English language learning via Chatbot
A Tool: Curipod: Story-based and gamified lessons with real-time AI feedback
A Webinar: Teaching the Four Skills
A Podcast: English Pronunciation for a Global World
An Article: Translanguaging: a Paradigm Shift for ELT Theory and Practice
A Talk: How can we support the emotional well-being of teachers?
A Webinar: GenAI Tools for Independent Learning
An online course: Back to basics
Resources: Back to digital resources
"Back to" Webinars
"Back to" Blog Posts
"Back to" podcasts
A Webinar: Artificial Intelligence: Shining Light in the Language Classroom
A Podcast: What is the impact of artificial intelligence on English language teaching?
A TEDX Talk: Should we let students use ChatGPT?
An Article: An investigation into ChatGPT’s effect on foreign language learners
A Blog Post: How to Use AI Tools to Support English Language Learners
An Article: “Demystifying EAP teaching” Lindsay Warwick and Ken Bateup
An Online Conference: “English for Academic Purposes and Leaning Opportunities”
A Book: Research Perspectives on English for Academic Purposes John Flowerdew, Matthew Peacock
A Podcast: “What is English for Specific Purposes, and how is it different from General English?” British Council Teaching English
A Blog Post: “Error Correction for Speaking; a study in an EAP context” Christopher Smith, IATEFL 2015
A Book: Mercer & Puchta: handy guide based on 'nudge theory' to improve teaching and learning outcomes
An Article: Patricia A. Alexander: Charting the course for the teaching profession: The energizing and sustaining role of motivational forces
A Blog Post: Motivation: A Teacher-Student Problem?
An Article: Reports on a narrative inquiry on the stories of resilience
shared by ELT teachers:
A Book Chapter: Teachstrong: The Power of Teacher Resilience for Second Language Practitioners by Phil Hiver:
An article: The heart of a teacher by Parker J. Palmer
Teacher’s identity: A journey of self-discovery by Tom Godfrey
Book chapter: Language Learner Engagement: Setting the scene by Sarah Mercer
Sarah Mercer - The foundations of engagement: a positive classroom culture:
Zoltan Dörnyei – Engaging language learners
Online course: Communication skills
A webinar - Different approaches to technology in the classroom - mini-event
An online course - How to teach grammar
A blog post - Tips to engage in PD to start off the year
A research paper - Using Action Research to Explore Technology in Language
Teaching: International Perspectives
An article - Do-Nothing Teaching (DNT): A contrarian reflective practice for teachers
A podcast - Can we trust AI?
A blog post - The Power of Stories: 5 Ways to Incorporate Personal Narratives
into Your Classroom
An online course – Understanding depression and low mood in young people
(University of Reading)
An online workshop series - Tim’s Pronunciation Workshop & The Sounds of
English
A podcast - Top-down and bottom-up listening strategies (with Jonathan
Newton)
A webinar - In Search of Effective Pronunciation Teaching Materials by Elina
Tergujeff (7 December 2023)
A video - How to adapt coursebooks
An online course – How to teach listening
A blogpost – A writing lesson idea with a touch of AI creativity
A webinar – There are no wrong answers- confidence and creativity for teens
A book – The Developing Teacher by Duncan Foord
An article - Teacher Qualities: Something to Think About
A conference – INGED