TDSIG - in-person PCE: Looking back, looking forward - celebrating 40 years of teacher development

Join the IATEFL Teacher Development Special Interest Group for their 2025 in person Pre-Conference Event on 7 April: Looking back, looking forward - celebrating 40 years of teacher development

Join TDSIG on our anniversary as we look back on where we have come from, and where we are going. A lot can happen in forty years, and in this celebration of our history, we have invited key figures from our past to come and consider how teacher development has changed in four decades, and where we see it going in the future. It promises to be a day of insight and reflection.

The day will be organised around four keynote speakers, all of whom have played a pivotal role in TDSIG’s history as former coordinators or committee members. They will be sharing their take on how teacher development has changed since 1985, and where they see it going in the future. It will also include our signature ‘Open Sessions’, an essential part of every TDSIG PCE, where participants will be able to exchange ideas and opinions with each other and our speakers.

The PCE will be of interest to any ELT professional looking to add a historical perspective to their knowledge, as well as gaining insights about how teacher development will change in the years to come.

Speaker:

Tyson Seburn
Tyson Seburn (MA EdTech & TESOL, University of Manchester) is a lecturer in and assistant director of an EAP foundation year at the University of Toronto and tutor on Oxford TEFL Barcelona’s Trinity DipTESOL course. He has volunteered on local and international teacher association committees, most recently as IATEFL TDSIG Coordinator. His personal and professional experiences inspired his interest in Queer and racialised ELT experiences, and thus ways to better practices and materials. He discusses critical and inclusive pedagogies via his online spaces (fourc.ca and @seburnt). He is author of Academic Reading Circles (2015) and How to Write Inclusive Materials (2021).

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