Tom Garside
TEFL hacks: 5 ways to check if a TEFL course is really what it says it is.
If you are looking for an English teaching qualification, but don’t know where to turn, you’re not alone. The TEFL industry is awash with
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Tom Garside
May 8, 20207 min read
5 assumptions commonly made about 'NNEST's, and one way to win the native speakerism battle
If you are an English teacher whose first language is (shock, horror!) not English, you will probably have experienced some kind of
Tom Garside
May 1, 20207 min read
Planning for the new normal: 5 online teaching fails to avoid
More and more of us are working online, and the Internet is overflowing with questions from teachers about the best ways of doing this, and
Tom Garside
Apr 27, 20205 min read
Getting into online teaching? 5 reasons to get qualified.
If, like so many other teachers in the world, you are making the jump to online delivery during these challenging times, you will have had
Tom Garside
Apr 20, 20204 min read
Look closer to home - why teachers develop best in their own classrooms
If you are an English-medium teacher working in a school, international university or IB / GCSE programme, your classroom is your own
Tom Garside
Apr 10, 20204 min read
In this cut-and-paste world, does copyright still matter in education?
Everyone does it (yes, even you…) - we have a class to prepare for 30 students, and ten minutes of our lunch break left to copy a worksheet.
Tom Garside
Apr 6, 20203 min read
Do online teachers need their own accredited teaching certificate?
Online learning has been the fastest growing sector of the education industry for some time now, and recent events have pushed more and more
Tom Garside
Apr 4, 20203 min read
Are video conferencing apps secure for online teaching? Best practice for online educators.
Whether you fall under formal data protection laws such as the UK’s strict GDPR system, or whether you are teaching through your own
Tom Garside
Mar 31, 20204 min read
A new qualification for developing educators, wherever and however they teach
If you have been following my recent articles and blogs, you will have read about the current focus on current thinking in TESOL teacher dev
Tom Garside
Mar 25, 20202 min read
Why are there no internationally accredited TEFL qualifications for non-native speaker teachers?
The global English language teaching industry has developed hugely in the past decade, with the quality of provision rising fast in a wide
Tom Garside
Mar 22, 20205 min read
Developing online teaching methods for yourself and your students
In the wake of lockdowns, school and university closures, and international students returning to their countries to be with their families,
Tom Garside
Mar 20, 20204 min read
Online teaching CAN replace ‘the real thing’
I read this article this morning, from a teacher in quarantine in Italy, teaching her students online and facing a set of common struggles.
Tom Garside
Mar 18, 20203 min read
CoVid-19 - Take a moment to be kind...
This is a personal one. Yes, we're living in interesting times, but can we just take a moment to think about our friends, students and
Tom Garside
Feb 13, 20206 min read
How to teach pronunciation 6: Find your rhythm with sentence stress
In this penultimate article about teaching pronunciation, we look at another suprasegmental pronunciation system which works across
Tom Garside
Jan 29, 20205 min read
How to teach pronunciation 5: Understanding and teaching word stress
In the next three articles in this series about pronunciation teaching, we will look at a tricky area of phonology which is often overlooked
Tom Garside
Jan 3, 20206 min read
How to teach pronunciation 4: What can the Phonemic Chart do for you (and your students)?
This article aims to show why the use of IPA is an essential tool for teaching and learning pronunciation, and that it is worth the effort
Tom Garside
Dec 19, 20193 min read
How to teach pronunciation 3: Accent and Identity
There is a trend in language centres to teach ESOL students how to speak ‘properly’, without an ‘accent’. The rise in the number of ‘accent
Tom Garside
Dec 4, 20194 min read
How to teach pronunciation 2: Drilling
Drilling, or the teacher-led ‘call and response’ activity which anyone who has learnt a second language remembers well, is probably the most
Tom Garside
Nov 23, 20193 min read
How to teach pronunciation Part 1: Phonics vs phonology
Pronunciation is an aspect of ESOL teaching which is often misunderstood. Clearly, pronunciation is an essential feature of students’ langua
Tom Garside
Nov 10, 20195 min read
Teaching Language Skills Pt 5: Writing skills and sub-skills
As a productive language skill, writing is much more than simply putting words on paper. A complex set of linguistic and cognitive processin
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