Teacher beliefs and research. Why do we do what we do?

This was the name of a talk I gave at a BC training day before Christmas last year. It basically came out of an article I'd read online by  B. Rosenshine, published in American Educator in 2012. I wasn't doing a lot of reading last year, just articles through twitter and blogs mostly, but this article really struck...

EAL, ELT and all that jazz.

Ever wondered what EAL is? I have found out it's a bit like a cousin of ELT - they've got a lot in common, but aren't quite the same. Here's what I've discovered so far after a couple of months in EAL and this post is as much as about me getting it all straight...