Apply For The IATEFL TDSIG Michael Berman Scholarship

This scholarship, funded by the IATEFL Teacher Development Special Interest Group, is in memory of Michael Berman, an ELT writer, presenter and storyteller, who regularly contributed his stories and teaching ideas to the TDSIG Newsletter until his death in 2013. It is for a teacher to attend the IATEFL Conference and to have the opportunity to be published through TDSIG platforms about your experiences. It will be awarded to someone who is interested in exploring their own development and is able to write about this engagingly so that others can share in and benefit from these insights. You have to be a member of IATEFL TDSIG to apply for this scholarship but you do not have to give a conference presentation.

The scholarship consists of:

• registration for the TDSIG Pre-Conference Event 
• registration for the IATEFL Conference
• GBP 1000.00 for conference-related expenses

To qualify you must:

• be a paid IATEFL individual member, with TDSIG as your primary SIG
• be questioning about your teaching and willing to learn
• be good at articulating your thoughts
• agree, if you win the scholarship,
  • to be interviewed in advance of the conference to introduce yourself and your teaching context and at or after the conference to describe your experience and takeaways as a participant. Both interviews may be recorded and used by TDSIG and/or IATEFL in their websites and social media platforms, at their discretion
  • to create a video narrative/story about your time at the conference
  • to produce a written reflective piece after the conference, in which you should focus on how your experiences at the conference have furthered your development
  • All three pieces may be used by TDSIG for various uses in promotional material.