ELTchat Review – Personal Development and Discipline

This week saw two very popular themes being discussed on #ELTchat.  Although discipline tends to be regarded as a topic in the secondary system, issues are not unknown in adult teaching.  Greta Sandler joined us from Argentina to review the session.

Our Blog post of the Week is the intriguingly-titled “bona to vada your dolly old eek” from the lives of teachers blog and looks at the issues of language and identity.

For the later session Simon Greenall talks about Personal Development and adds views as to where IATEFL could get involved.

Our Tool of the Week this week offers the busy teacher an alternative to PowerPoint.  the toll is called Prezi and with certainly give your presentations a fresh look.

We end with a brief overview of the ELT situation in Macedonia as a foretaste of the review of the ELTAM Conference which will be in next week’s show.

Comments, suggestions and feedback are always welcome.  You can add them at the bottom of this article, or contact us by email at the address given in the podcast or, of course, you can simply tweet using the hashtag #ELTchat!

Happy listening!