Who: Michael Griffin (@michaelegriffin), an EFL teacher and teacher trainer long based in South Korea (KOTESOL, iTDi); often co-writes with Manpal Sahota.
What: Columns, workshop handouts, reviews and reflections, plus the 2026 “Brain Tenant” workplace series.
Stance: A sceptical practitioner. Reflection is the core of development, observation should serve development rather than evaluation, and blanket rules (“TTT is bad”) deserve questioning, including his own earlier advice.
Processed notes
- Check vocabulary intuitions with corpus tools
- Observation for development - describe before you interpret
- Reflective journals and critical friends
- Teacher talk - reduce it, then choose it
Next to process
- “Large Class Management”; “Team Teaching: How to make it work”; “Better use of dialogues”
- “Brain Tenant” #14: “The book is not sacrosanct”