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The Four Pillars of Teacher Support
Teachers are at the heart of educational institutions. It is therefore of the utmost importance to ensure that they are adequately supported and trained and that development opportunities exist for them. In this joint event between the Teacher Training and Education Special Interest Group (TTEdSIG) and the Leadership and Management Read more…
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LAMSIG Watercooler January
There are many reasons why watercooler chats should be encouraged in the office. For LAMSIG, we are hoping that our watercooler events will cover a few of these areas, including: greater collaboration between ELT managers and leaders globally, more ideas and solutions, higher engagement with LAMSIG and our initiatives, and Read more…
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Sustainable Online Teaching and Learning
On April 19 during the IATEFL Global Get-together, four SIGs (Andy Hockley from LAMSIG, Lawrie Moore from LASIG, Sophia Mavridi from LTSIG, and Cecilia Lemos from TDSIG) came together to discuss Sustainable online teaching & learning in a panel discussion (moderated expertly by Tyson Seburn): As a profession with varying Read more…
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Ideas and Suggestions (3)
Some of the topics that have come up in the last week Job descriptions for online teachers Some suggestions that were made: Reword face to face teacher job descriptions Preparing and delivering lessons to improve students’ reading, writing, and conversing skills. Developing educational content such as notes and quizzes. Assigning Read more…
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Ideas and Suggestions (2)
Subtitle: Maslow before Bloom Thanks everyone for another very supportive week on the Facebook group Language School Management in the time of Covid19. Thanks to everyone involved for all your tips, help, encouragement, empathy, and positivity. I’m proud and humbled to be a small part of such a great community Read more…
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Ideas and Suggestions (1)
Image by nugroho dwi hartawan from Pixabay In this post I have attempted to collect and collate the various pieces of advice and suggestions that have come up in the first few days of the facebook discussion group “Language School Management in the time of Covid-19″at https://www.facebook.com/groups/schoolmanagementcovid/ I’ve divided the Read more…
Covid-19
Language teaching management in the time of Covid-19
This blog is intended to collect, collate, and summarise the comments, stories, questions and ideas that come up in the conversations in the “Language School Management in the time of Covid-19” discussion group It’s very heartening to see the response to the group, and hearing some of the success stories Read more…
Community Group
To all leaders and managers in the language teaching sector – academic managers, senior teachers, school owners, directors of studies, co-ordinators, principals, assistant directors of studies, and anybody else in a position of management responsibility. We are all going through a difficult and challenging time and dealing with unforeseen and Read more…
LAMSIG Showcase Day at IATEFL 2020
Inviting all IATEFL Conference 2020 attendees interested in academic management, leadership and teacher development to the LAMSIG Showcase Day! Join us on Saturday 18 April in Exchange 4 to hear our excellent line-up of speakers and take part in the Open Forum.