How I Became a Teacher — Building Your Teaching Identity
1. What is a reflective journal for? To notice patterns in your teaching — what you repeat, avoid, improve. Evidence-based self-development.
Category: Professional Development Resources
Continuing education resources, teaching qualification guidance, and professional growth materials.
5-Min Pro · Error Correction: Deciding When and How
The idea — Not all errors need correcting immediately. Interrupting a fluency task for accuracy correction kills communication. Correcting everything demoralises. The question is always: what is this task for?
5-Min Pro · Professional Development on a Budget
The idea — Paid CPD is not the only CPD. The most effective professional development often costs nothing and happens between lessons: peer observation, reading one article, watching one teaching video, reflecting on one moment.
5-Min Pro · Reflective Teaching Journals: A Practical Start
The idea — Reflective journals become abandoned documents because people start too ambitiously. Three paragraphs per lesson is not sustainable. One question per week is.
5-Min Pro · Peer Observation: Giving Feedback That Lands
The idea — Peer observation feedback fails when it is vague (‘great energy’), when it is a list of everything, or when it arrives without an anchor to evidence. Effective feedback is specific, referenced, and…
When the Certificate Fails You: What Nobody Tells You About Appealing a CELTA Result
# When the Certificate Fails You: What Nobody Tells You About Appealing a CELTA Result *A real case. No names. No shortcuts. Just what the process actually looks like when you fight back properly.* ---…