I have been thinking and writing about my reflections on Penny Ur’s (1997) article on Teacher Education and Teacher Development for the last few weeks. Ur (1197) refers to Wallace’s Training Models and suggests the Optimal Training Module by combining Wallace’s Models and I cannot agree more. Figure 1 is a representation of how optimal [...]

One of my trainers, Sheelagh Deller who taught me so much once said: ‘There are three types of lessons:        1. The lesson you planned.        2. The actual lesson that you have executed.        3. The lesson you would have given.’ Some teachers spend time on the lesson, and think about it when the lesson [...]

Teacher Education As far as I know, in order to become a teacher, a person needs some kind of formal education all over the world. In order to become an EFL or ESL teacher, one needs to complete a 3-4 year BA in Teacher Education or a 100-120 hour TEFL certificate course such as a [...]