Connect With English http://tr.im/nbFi ESL CPD Continuing Professional Development at Connect With English
A video instructional series in English as a second language for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 50 fifteen-minute video programs and coordinated books
Some of the videos are freely available online.
ESL : an evaluation of pilot training courses (UK) http://tinyurl.com/j2dkj English as an additional language: an evaluation of (UK) pilot training courses.
This report is an evaluation of five pilot courses for training specialist teachers and teaching assistants in English as an additional language.
It identifies effective practice on which to build a national framework for professional development in English as an additional language and improvements that need to be made to make the courses more successful.
The report evaluated the courses in terms of recruitment and retention, content, quality of training and tutoring, assignments and assessment, management, quality assurance and monitoring.
ESL Teacher Talk http://www.eslteachertalk.com/ ESL Teacher Talk
ESL teachers on topics such as classroom management, lesson planning advice, job search tips and more. Listen on-line or download to your iPod or mp3 player and go.
You will also find interviews with the top names in ESL.
Each broadcast contains a feature game or activity that you can use in your lessons with supporting downloads and materials.
On the (BBC) radio : Knowledge on the Net http://tinyurl.com/5mvfq On the (BBC) radio : Knowledge on the Net
A radio series for teachers of English on the internet and how to use it for yourself and your teaching.
If you're an English teacher, have access to the internet and would like to learn more about how the World Wide Web can be used for teaching, then this series can help. It examines a number of the issues related to the use of the internet and provides practical guidance and advice on how teachers can best utilise this modern tool.
All the programmes are archived online
E-Moderation: A Training Course For Online Tutors http://www.theconsultants-e.com/courses/em/index.asp E-Moderation: A Training Course For Online Tutors
This course is aimed at teachers, trainers, tutors, facilitators, lecturers and mentors from any discipline and any level of education, who are interested in developing the skills necessary to become an effective e-moderator in online courses.
The E-moderation course looks at the range of skills needed by an online tutor, particularly in the field of ELT (English Language Teaching), although these skills are easily transferable to other disciplines.
ESL Continuous Professional Development http://www.onestopenglish.com/News/Magazine/Archive/continuous.htm ESL Continuous Professional Development
CPD is still in its infancy and is being applied across a wide range of professions. It is not only applicable to the teaching profession. Some teaching institutions have already embraced the principles of CPD, however, and are actively encouraging their employees to explore the different possibilities open to them in the CPD programme. The British Institute for English Language Teaching (BIELT) actively supports CPD and their web-site (www.bielt.org) has some helpful advice in setting up CPD programmes.