Jack C Richards' 50 Tips for Teacher Development Pocket Editions
Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers

Highly-practical teacher development tips, grounded in best practice.

Jack C. Richards (Author), Scott Thornbury (Edited by)

9781108408363, Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Paperback / softback, published 14 December 2017

128 pages
20.3 x 13.3 x 0.8 cm, 0.15 kg

This book offers 50 practical ideas for teachers to use for professional development. The tips cover a wide range of activities that can be carried out individually or in collaboration with others, including self and peer observation, journal writing, on-line forums, classroom research, action research, team teaching, lesson review, materials review, lesson study, mentoring, peer coaching, reading groups, and workshops. Each tip is described in a 2 two-page format that gives the rational for the activity and step-by-step procedures for implementing it. The Tips can be used with both novice and more experienced teachers and are intended to provide a basis for teachers to review the current state of their professional learning and to develop and implement goals for their professional development.

Subject Areas: ELT resource books for teachers [EBAR]