What: The IATEFL Teacher Development SIG’s blog: committee reflections, guest articles, conference write-ups, reviews and some sponsored posts. Also runs a journal (TDAJ), a podcast (DEVELOPOD) and events.
Stance: Development is relational, collaborative and grounded in daily classroom reality, not top-down courses. Teacher agency, sustainability, workload.
Why it matters for me: Has Uzbekistan-specific CPD evidence (the NILE/British Council state-schools portfolio project) and EAR mentoring stories that include Uzbekistan.
Processed notes
- CPD portfolios - What, So what, Now what
- Coaching vs mentoring - teachers showing up for teachers
- Mentoring teacher-research through Exploratory Action Research
- Reflection is a recurring cycle
- Sustainable PD - decide what should stick
Next to process
- Empowering teachers: insights from a teacher development project (2026)
- Five ideas for engaging in PD (2023)
- Smith & Rebolledo (2018) A Handbook for Exploratory Action Research (British Council, free)