DEVELOPOD - The IATEFL TDSIG 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=jWHiIM1p8DQFfjje

Harry’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-teachers

Lottie 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 Helen to talk about the IATEFL Conference 2024 before, during, and after the week-long event in Brighton are Sandy Millan, TDSIG Joint co-ordinator James Taylor, past TDSIG committee member Fiona Mauchline, and the two 2024 TDSIG scholarship winners: Didar Moldazhanov, winner of the Early Career Teacher Scholarship, and Maryam Mirshahnasab, winner of the Michael Berman Scholarship.
Hear all these different perspectives on the conference, the experiences they've had, and what they have taken away, and in some cases, applied in their classrooms right away.
Consider applying for an IATEFL TDSIG scholarship for the 2025 conference in Edinburgh before the June 19th deadline.
Tell us about your IATEFL Brighton 2024 Conference perspective, experience, and/or takeaways on our social media channels, we'd love to hear from you!

Join us for a special celebration of 50 episodes of Developod! In this episode, we look back on our recent future of teacher development episodes, introduce our new host Helen Slee and say farewell to the man who's been there since day one, Christian Tiplady. James quizzes them on their knowledge about podcasts, and Helen interviews Christian about his time with TDSIG.

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/