Continuous Professional Development (CPD): a necessity or a trend?
CPD stands for Continuous Professional Development and it normally refers to the knowledge and skills obtained beyond the formal education…
Category: Education
The Unique Teacher-Student Relationship
The teacher-student relationship has always been included in the list of relationships that contribute to the psycho-emotional growth of the…
A Teacher’s individual research and scientific methods in language classrooms
There is no doubt that teachers are more effective in their profession when they are aware of the basic principles…
From Story Reading to Story Telling and Story Devising
Part 3 of this series of articles on story telling will start by suggesting that stories be implemented more frequently…
Vocational Qualifications: or finding one’s own Voice
As teachers who perpetually vie for fulfilling the optimum outcome for a multitude of profoundly different personalities, the practice years…
Embedding top employability skills into vocational education: Producing leaders for the 21st century workforce
This article highlights the concept of “employability” and the importance of acquisition of employability skills. Employability skills are referred…
Vocational Qualifications you can trust
The globalization of local markets in recent years has created countless opportunities in the professional arena, allowing for unprecedented…
Vocational Qualifications: What are they? Who are they for?
What would you expect from a nurse from Greece who works in a hospital in the UK? To be able…
When testing trumps teaching, the students suffer
Tiffany Moyer-Washington is an eighth-grade English language arts teacher at Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy in Hartford and a…
Academic English skills in General English Courses
In previous articles we’ve briefly presented the history of EAP, examined similarities and differences between Academic and General EFL…