Candies for new teachers: Episode 1

Have you just started teaching English?

If your answer is “yes”, good news: you are not alone! Although I have previous teaching knowledge (I taught Portuguese for more than 10 years!), I ‘ve got to deal with different challenges as I’m a beginner on the matter of English language teaching! Planning my career, gathering appropriate teaching material and keeping on improving my English skills are my current teaching efforts.
You are invited to follow the series Candies for new teachers and contribute sharing ideas. Will you?

Candies for new teachers: Episode I - I know that I don’t know!

When we decided to create this blog we needed to come up with a website hotlist. I had heard about some of them but to be sincere, I hadn’t searched for so much information. Then I realized that being exposed to such interesting material would help me to improve my career. One of these websites is The British Council's Teaching English.

Some sections specifically called my attention. Try clicking on Teacher development (Step 1), then on Continuing professional development (Step 2) and you will find Ideas for planning your career. Apart a video, you can find a chart “Which stage are you at?” where you can assess your journey as a teacher of English:

Choose your stage as teacher and open a webpage where you can find resources and tools that can help you to plan how to improve your career. Let’s see one as an example, click on Newly qualified:

Clicking on the session Planning your development at this stage will you find articles, links and downloads.

Now it is up to you!

by Denise Emerici