Didactics of the English Language I E-Folio

Professional development

Why professional development?

Professional development can provide the drive to progress your teaching practices. Professional development is something you will do every day of your life without even thinking about it; however, being conscious of the development you undertake will allow you to record this and develop in a systematic way. In order to maximize your potential, it is essential that you maintain high levels of professional competence by continually improving your knowledge and skills.
Any one who wishes to stay competitive and effective needs to be constantly changing and adapting within its business environment and this means that practitioners need to be adapting and learning to deal with these changes.  A learning culture embeds professional development into the heart of the school and ensures that knowledge is shared between teams and individuals to improve practice.  This will in turn lead to continuous improvement across an organization.A learning culture encourages people to ask questions, share successes and lessons learned, and to propagate and cross-fertilize ideas.  It allows individuals to reflect and treats then as individuals, with their own learning needs, rather than generic resources which allows the organization to take advantage of strengths and allowing individuals to focus on areas of development to improve their skills and practice.An ELT practitioner needs to be updated and know about many teaching tools to make the process much easier and effective and make students better assimilate the contents presented.
Now we have here some tools as articles, eBooks, podcasts, videos and web sites that can help ELT practitioners to improve their skills to have more effective classes:1.       Methodology in language teaching (eBook). This book seeks to provide an overview of current approaches, issues and practices in the teaching of English to speakers of other language. https://books.google.com.sv/books?hl=es&lr=&id=VxnGXusQlI8C&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=professional+development+for+elt+teachers&ots=qgstrd8vnN&sig=hN-Ywricrrim7lVfQMrpsCZ3th4#v=onepage&q=professional%20development%20for%20elt%20teachers&f=false2.       Class charts:  is a very useful website, here you will learn how to improve student’s behavior and it will help you to know how to manage a class in which not all the students are the same.
https://www.classcharts.com/3.       Magic box English kids channel:  is a very useful YouTube channel that contains many videos and songs that will help you to teach kids in a very funny way.
 https://www.youtube.com/user/MagicboxEngRhy/featured4.       Teaching English games:  is a web site in which you will find games, stories, songs, flashcards and resources.
http://www.teachingenglishgames.com/eslsongs.htm