Who: Independent ELT consultant and teacher trainer (Ukraine); ex-DoS and Director of Teacher Education; MAs in TESOL and Psychology; now also an art therapist and logotherapist (self-reported).
What: A reflective trainer’s blog: trainer and teacher reflections, the Dnipro Reflective Practice Group (since 2022), and career transition.
Stance: Reflection is a learnable, shared skill, “first for you, then your students”. Feedback should be human and content-focused, and development is collaborative and often unplanned.
Processed notes
- Feedback on content - make the writer feel read
- Run a reflective practice group
- Treat excuses in mandatory PD as information
- Unplanned CPD counts - ask what else you did instead