In this episode, Helen and Ana Paula Biazon Rocha discuss Ana’s journey in ELT, emphasizing her passion for pronunciation and teacher development. She started teaching at 17 in Brazil, influenced by her family of educators and legacy. Anna's interest in pronunciation stemmed from personal challenges and feedback from teacher trainers – while seeking to improve, she discovered a passion. She highlights her shift from a teacher-centered to a student-centered approach, the importance of human connection in learning, and the need for us teachers to feel that we’re not alone but  part of a teaching community. Ana's career evolved through self-study, workshops, and courses, including a Cambridge Delta and an MA in TESOL. She says that students become teachers who become students… The learning cycle is ongoing! Ana advises novice teachers and those coming to another country to learn, grow, and teach to believe in themselves, study, and embrace continuous learning. Be an open teacher-learner and find your passions!Ana mentions:- Cambridge Delta- MA in Applied Linguistics - University of Sheffield- MA in TESOL - University of Sheffield(Ana completed the MA in Applied Linguistics with TESOL in the academic year 2017-2018. After the COVID pandemic, this course was split into two: MA in Applied Linguistics and MA in TESOL, so her original Masters course does not exist anymore at the University of Sheffield. Students choose one or the other now.)- An article Ana wrote: MA student Ana Paula Biazon Rocha on why she chose Sheffield(Side note: This goes back when she was interviewed by the University of Sheffield to talk about my life as an MA student in 2018. After she finished her MA course, she started working as an English Language Tutor at the English Language Teaching Centre (ELTC) at the University of Sheffield and has been doing so for nearly seven years. So she was a student who became a staff member at the university.)- IATEFL PronSIG blogListeners can contact Ana by email: a.p.biazon-rocha@sheffield.ac.uk or on social media:1. LinkedIn: (her full name: Ana Paula Biazon Rocha)2. Instagram: @anapaulabiazonrocha3. Facebook: Ana Paula Biazon RochaTo find the complete archive of Developod episodes, go to tdsig.org/developod-tdsigs-podcast

In this episode, Helen & JPB Gerald discuss his professional foundation in ELT and his current work writing articles, essays, and books, focusing on language, race, neurodivergence, and critiquing the ELT industry. Justin talks about motivation, personal struggles, his writing process and style, and shares his evolution as a writer. He shares his perspectives on academic writing and the importance of grounding theory and personal connections in research. He also discusses slavery along with overt and subtle racism and oppression. and self-identifies as a "heckler", pointing out that if we don’t jump in and speak out, nothing will change. Check out his website: https://jpbgerald.com/To find the complete archive of Developod episodes, go to tdsig.org/developod-tdsigs-podcast 

In this episode, Helen & Laura Patsko discuss her ELT journey, describing her career as a mix of diverse elements, like salad or spaghetti. She began in advertising, transitioned to ELT after influential conversations, and completed her CELTA and DELTA in Prague. Laura then worked in teacher training and for Cambridge University Press before going freelance. She emphasizes the evolving acceptance of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and the impact of technology, particularly messaging apps, on remote professional development. Laura advocates for embracing the “mess” of non-linear "squiggly" career paths following personal interests and values over a rigid career trajectory, if that is right for you.You can find Laura on LinkedIN.Laura’s Portfolio:https://blackbirdlxd.com/?page_id=494The “Continuing Professional Development through mobile messaging apps” project Laura did in 2023 with BC Argentina: https://americas.britishcouncil.org/sites/default/files/0412_cpd_report_eng.pdfLaura mentions:Sandy Millain’s Take your Time DELTA: https://www.takeyourtimedelta.com/NILE’s distance teacher training: https://www.nile-elt.com/catalog?pagename=NILE-OnlineTo find the complete archive of Developod episodes, go to tdsig.org/developod-tdsigs-podcast

In this episode, Helen and Chiara Bruzzano talk about her professional development journey, her work in teacher education, writing, and research, those who impacted her CPD, and the role of research in ELT and the importance of its accessibility. She points out that teachers are the experts in and know what’s best for their own context, and talks about keeping academic research accessible to ensure it isn’t overly-complex or opaque. She shares how ELT has changed over the 13 years she’s been immersed in the work, and how she’s witnessed a shift in nativespeakerism. She shares her passion for her freelance LanguageED work and pursuing her PhD research into the role of standardised tests and their impact on communities such as refugees, asylum seekers, and forced migrants. She wants teachers to always ask “the big questions” because they/you have the power and are the experts.LanguagEd blog: https://languaged.org/blog  LanguagEd YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@languaged  Modern English Teacher blog: https://www.modernenglishteacher.com/blog-by-chiara-bruzzano?page=1 Sign up link for Chiara’s newsletter: http://eepurl.com/ha8EaResearch project for the British Council: https://forcedmigrantsielts.weebly.com/Chiara’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chiarabruzzano/Also, feel free to get in touch via email: chiara@languaged.org Chiara reached out to us at Developod after listening to Episode 56 “Becoming a Humanistic Teacher Trainer with Rachel Tsateri”, and from that email and written discussion came this episode!If YOU want to talk to us about Developod, email: tdsig.podcast@iatefl.org To find the complete archive of Developod episodes, go to tdsig.org/developod-tdsigs-podcast 

On July 17th, Phil Longwell passed away. He was an extraordinary teacher and remarkable human being who often attended TDSIG events, including our PCEs and recent 40th Anniversary celebration. We will miss him.In tribute, we are reposting episode 20 of Developod, where he was interviewed by Christian to mark Mental Health Week in the UK. They discuss Phil's personal experiences with mental health issues, what ELT employers can do to help their employees, and what teachers can do to manage their own well being. It's a great example of how Phil used his own struggles to selflessly support teachers around the world.Phil's blog: https://teacherphili.com/IATEFL Q&A on Phil Longwell’s Webinar on Mental Health in ELT:https://www.iatefl.org/news-views/q%26-phil-longwell%E2%80%99s-webinar-mental-health-eltScreencast Recording from Phil Longwell on Improving the Mental Health of English Language Teachers:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijFMplEgKWsBlog from Phil Longwell on Covid-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing:https://teacherphili.com/2020/03/21/covid-19-mental-health-and-wellbeing/Mental Health First Aid Training Courses e.g.:https://www.sja.org.uk/courses/workplace-mental-health-first-aid/Free courses:Understand the Physiological impact of lockdown on our Wellbeing and Mental Health on Maudsley Learning and Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust’s course (the UK's premier mental health training organisation): https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/psychological-impact-of-covid-19Help Young People Manage Low Mood and Depression with the University of Reading: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/low-mood-during-covid-19Manage Mental Health and Stress on Coventry University's course: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/managing-mental-health

In this episode, Didar speaks with Varinder Ünlü about her professional development journey in both teaching and training as well as the importance of inclusion and diversity in ELT at all levels. She explains how she makes an effort to stay current and aware while highlighting how things have changed. She encourages leaders and trainers to adapt to teachers’ needs and teachers to adapt to learners’ needs, and points out that all teachers should believe in themselves, ask for help when they need it, and push for change they want to see instead of waiting for someone else to do it.Varinder is the coordinator of the IATEFL’s Global Issues Special Interest Group (GISIG) committee: https://gisig.iatefl.org/Connect with Varinder on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/varinder-%C3%BCnl%C3%BC-0238126a/To find the complete archive of Developod episodes, go to tdsig.org/developod-tdsigs-podcast 

In this episode, you’re going to hear from two of our Early Career Teacher Scholarship winners. First is Wing Wu from Hong Kong. Wing actually won the award back in 2023, but was unable to attend the conference until this year. We’re delighted that he was finally able to make it!Secondly, we’ll hear from Hang Vu from Vietnam, who won the Early Career scholarship for this year. It was really great to have all three of our scholarship winners together in Edinburgh, and if you want to join them in 2026, the clock is ticking! The deadline for our 2026 scholarships is the 18th of June. Head to our website TDSIG.org and click on scholarships in the menu to find out how you could be joining us in Brighton next year.To find the complete archive of Developod episodes, go to tdsig.org/developod-tdsigs-podcast 

In this episode, Helen speaks with Jim Fuller about ways to become a leader in your educational context through your sphere of influence and understanding the culture, social skills, collaboration, and continuous professional development. He encourages us to seek out development opportunities and face challenges, and reminds leaders that the environment that they create has a huge impact on CPD for all.Jim works as a teacher trainer for The North Station Academy in Zaragoza as well as for Cambridge University Press and Assessment. He’s also completing the NILE MADPLE, with a focus on Trainer Development and Management within ELT, and is the admin coordinator of the TTEdSIG committee.As mentioned in this episode:Jim’s blog: spongeelt.org Jim’s LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-fuller/From teacher to teacher leader by Hayo Reinders: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/from-teacher-to-teacher-leader/80A191805ADF6E900418E692B3C93C1DNILE MA: https://www.nile-elt.com/catalog?pagename=MAProgrammeCambridge English Professional Development for Language Teachers site:  https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/teaching-english/professional-development/ To find the complete archive of Developod episodes, go to tdsig.org/developod-tdsigs-podcast 

In this episode, Helen speaks with Harry Waters of Renewable English about his ELT journey, how he came to focus on the climate crisis, how education has been changing in response to it, and what he thinks ELT professionals could do to become more sustainable.IATEFL Conference Plenary Friday 11 April: “Five burning questions to education from a young changemaker” Harry Waters & Alicia Waters Galán: https://youtu.be/mzMLyUfaNMM?si=jWHiIM1p8DQFfjjeHarry’s Book: https://www.deltapublishing.co.uk/book/activities-for-a-greener-mindset-9783125017795/?page_id=  Harry’s “Environmental Sustainability in Language Teaching” NILE Course: https://www.nile-elt.com/catalog?pagename=F2F-courses   Course in San Sebastian (Erasmus +): https://www.lacunza.es/sites/default/files/Lacunza_Nile_TT_Environmental_Sustainability.pdf Other courses Harry recommends: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-free-sustainability-courses-united-nations-sophia-kianni-btxve/https://courses.eltsustainable.org/    https://sdgacademy.org/   Harry’s Insta: https://www.instagram.com/renewableenglish/   Harry’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harry-waters/   

In this episode, Helen speaks with Rachel Tsateri about becoming a humanistic teacher trainer. Rachel is a freelance teacher, teacher educator, and blogger based in Greece but working exclusively online. She's been involved in ELT since 2014 and holds the Cambridge CELTA, DELTA and Train the Trainer certifications. She is working on her Masters in Professional Development for Language Education and she runs the popular TEFL Zone blog: https://teflzoneracheltsateri.wordpress.com/

In this episode, Joint TDSIG coordinators James Taylor & Cecilia Lemos Harmer invite our listeners to come to TDSIG’s Web Carnival, on October 19 & 20. James introduces Kristina Novik and Didar Moldazhanov, who are joining Helen on the Developod Team. Helen talks about the 3rd Web Carnival Plenary Speaker Silvana Accardo and her session. Kristina introduces the 2nd Plenary Speaker Leonardo Marinho Dias Lima, who talks about what the theme “Teacher Change” means to him, why he applied to speak at the Web Carnival, what he’s going to talk about, how it resonates with him in his context, why he chose it, how he hopes attendees will benefit from his session, what he hopes they’ll take away, and some final words for listeners about his talk, the web carnival, and professional development in general. Didar introduces the 1st Plenary Speaker Ben Dobbs, who discusses his session, how it resonates with him in his context, why he chose it, why he applied to speak at the Web Carnival, what the Web Carnival theme “Teacher Change” means to him, what he hopes attendees take away, and some final thoughts for our listeners.  Cecilia Lemos Harmer signs off, speaking for all of TDSIG by saying that we hope to see you at the Web Carnival next month!

In this episode, Helen interviews Taylor Veigga, who is CELTA, CertTESOL, CertPT, Delta1, & DipTESOL tutor, writer, editor, IATEFL PronSIG Webinar Joint Coordinator, and an advocate for Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in ELT. She shares her CPD journey, including people who (and training/qualifications that) influenced her career, how her focus on looking at pronunciation from a diversity and inclusivity point of view impacted her, and how she has recently realised the importance of teacher wellness, and how everything is actually connected. We explore that perspective and more, with Taylor signing off with her main message: that we need a revolution of love and support in the ELT industry. She leaves our listeners with some questions to help them think about their development and wellness.Follow Taylor on Instagram: @tveiggaelt https://www.instagram.com/tveiggaelt/Check out her website tveigga.com, as well as pron4teachers.com.

In this episode, Helen interviews Lottie Galpin, who writes dyslexia-friendly materials, is a freelance ELT publishing professional, an ELT editor/writer, and a DEI in ELT consultant. Lottie shares her professional development journey from teacher to materials writer to DEI consultant, offering support and suggestions for teachers who want to create their own materials and/or move into publishing, and encourages us all to embrace and use inclusive materials in a way that’s healthy for teachers and students and benefits everybody.On Lottie's website: https://www.lottiegalpin.com/Download list of inclusive photobanks here: https://www.lottiegalpin.com/inclusion-for-free/.Lottie recommends some British Council webinars containing some good DEI-related talks: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/news-and-events/webinars/webinars-teachersLottie shares some examples of Inclusive materials:#1: https://raiseupforelt.com/ #2: https://peterjfullagar.co.uk/eltshop/During the conversation, Lottie mentions ELT teacher to writer: https://eltteacher2writer.co.uk/

In this episode, Helen and James discuss our new theme "Teacher Change" and Helen interviews Peter J Fullagar, who is an ELT editor/writer, DEI in ELT consultant, and LGBTQIA+ champion. Peter discusses his professional development journey from teacher to editor/writer to DEI consultant to LGBTQIA+ champion, offering support and suggestions, and encourages us all to use our voices to speak up. Happy Pride to all our listeners!You can contact Peter via the contact form on his website (https://peterjfullagar.co.uk/) or via LinkedIn.Here are some of the links Peter recommended during the conversation:Writing ELT Materials (Kath and John) - https://writingeltmaterials.com/ Foundations for Inclusion (Beth Cox) - https://www.bethcox.co.uk/foundations-for-inclusion ELT Well (Anne Margaret Smith) - https://eltwell.com/ CIEP - https://www.ciep.uk/ Galop - https://galop.org.uk/ EFL Creative Ideas (Silvina Mascitti) - https://www.eflcreativeideas.com/ Tyson Seburn - https://fourc.ca/ Lottie Galpin - https://www.lottiegalpin.com/ Dr Amina Douidi - www.aminadouidi.com Harry Waters - https://renewableenglish.com/ 

Joining Christian on this episode is Jo Gakonga, a Teacher educator and online course creator, to discuss her interest in early career teachers. This episode is the final part of our Future of Teacher Development strand.Jo has worked in ELT for over 30 years in a range of countries and contexts including Taiwan, the Czech Republic, Kenya and Switzerland. She's a CELTA trainer, assessor and Joint Chief Assessor, she co-authored IELTS Foundation (Macmillan). and runs ELT-Training.com, which has a range of courses for English language teachers. She also recently completed a PhD on mentoring.

In this episode, Christian talks with Sandy Millin about the future of Teacher Development from her perspective, especially focusing on the power of blogs and social media. Read Sandy Millin's Blog here: https://sandymillin.wordpress.com/British Council Webinar with Sandy Millin: Professional development through blogs and blogging: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/news-and-events/webinars/webinars-teachers/sandy-millin-professional-development-through-blogs-and Follow Sandy on LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandymillin/

Joining us for episode 47 are Vicky Saumell & David Read. They help us to continue our investigation into the future of teacher development from a technology point of view.

Joining Christian in this latest episode of Developod are Claire Steele and Sarah Smith, Directors of Eltonix. They discuss the future of teacher development with a focus on 'bottom-up' teacher development, and in particular 'classroom-based inquiry' (or 'action research'), which they argue is both more teacher-centred and student-centred than most current forms of prescriptive professional development led by language school institutions.Information about Eltonix:Website: https://eltonix.com/Facebook Group: eltonix connects (a fund, friendly and international TD community)Previous related Developod episodes:Episode 36 Classroom-Based InquiryEpisode 18 Action ResearchEpisode 8 Creating a Culture of Teacher Development (with Silvana Richardson)

Join us as we preview this weekend’s annual TDSIG online conference, the Web Carnival. In this episode, James interviews two of our plenary speakers, Michelle Worgan and Cesar Correa Larroca, to find out more about their talks.Register for the Web Carnival at tdsig.org/web-carnivalMichelle and Eloise’s The Teaching Lab: facebook.com/groups/eltteachinglab 

Joining Christian in the latest episode of Developod is David Valente, primary English teacher educator and researcher. They take a look at how the future of teacher development will affect young learner teachers.USEFUL LINKS: CEPELL resources: https://icepell.eu/ ICEKit materials: https://icepell.eu/index.php/icekits/Reading for in-depth learning (Ridl) framework: https://site.nord.no/ellil/reading-for-in-depth-learning/Materials from the  IATEFL YLTSIG website:https://issuu.com/iatefl/docs/teylt_worldwide_issue_1__2020_special_appendixELLRA website: https://ellra.org/