News From the Teacher Development SIG

Web Carnival 2026

‘From Development to Impact: Making it Stick’. Join the TDSIG Web Carnival 2026, a space to explore how teacher development can move beyond ideas and become lasting, meaningful practice.

Across two days, we’ll share voices, experiences, and reflections that focus on what truly makes professional learning stick, across contexts, roles, and stages of our careers.

Register now at http://tdsig.org/web-carnival
21–22 February 2026
Online

PCE 2026

Our Pre-Conference Event 2026 is coming! ✨

‘Teaching the Teachers: Innovation and Challenges in ESOL Pedagogy and Teacher Development.’ A space to pause, reflect, and rethink how we support teachers’ learning and growth, across contexts, careers, and classrooms.

Join us for a full-day Pre-Conference Event exploring innovation, challenges, and meaningful practices in teacher education and ESOL pedagogy, brought to you by IATEFL ESOL SIG and IATEFL Teacher Development SIG.

Brighton, 20 April 2026Register now: http://tdsig.org/pce

New Episode of Developod

Developod episode 67 is out! In this episode, Helen and Emily Bryson discuss her eclectic career, including teaching, teacher training, authoring books like Voices for National Geographic Learning, running online courses, and creating doodle and sketchnote visual resources. Emily describes teaching ESOL learners from refugee backgrounds and embraces a nomad lifestyle, traveling while working remotely. She highlights persistent issues in ELT like native speakerism and lack of LGBTQ+ representation, though she notes growing awareness of diverse Englishes and localisation in teaching materials. Looking ahead, Emily will continue visual recording and write about her digital nomad experiences. Emily emphasises how supportive the ELT community is and encourages us to: embrace creativity and messiness in teaching and learning, network and take opportunities, and feel the fear, turn off your inner troll, and draw anyway!

http://tdsig.org/developod-tdsigs-podcast

Available in all the podcast places!

TDSIG On Tour

It’s time for the next leg of TDSIG On Tour! Join us on Saturday 25 April in Brussels, Belgium for the BELTA Day 2026.

This event is one of the most dynamic and interactive conferences in Europe, and taking part in it will be a great experience for us and our members, and we hope for BELTA members too! Teacher development is a subject which has universal appeal and local demands, and we look forward to a conference which will look at this vital topic from a diverse range of perspectives.

We’re looking for speakers, so submit your proposal now at beltabelgium.com/belta-day-2026-call-for-proposals. The deadline for sending in your proposal is 10 February 2026.

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