Teachers, keep updated without feeling overwhelmed!

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 Teachers, keep updated without feeling overwhelmed! 




    We are willing to keep updated professionally as teachers; however, we also have many responsibilities that go beyond our willingness. From time to time, we can have problems with setting a balance between work and professional development or we may not know how to start and we need solutions to overcome them. 

Here are pieces of advice to help you keep updated without feeling overwhelmed: 
  • Have weekly, monthly planners and schedules, which can help you keep more organised, make future plans and set time limit between school and free time. 
  • Do not be strict with your plans. It is usual not to be able to follow your plans every day. This is called ‘’life’’. Sometimes, something that may completely change your plans happens. 
  • Do not forget to have a rest after work and get ready psychologically for what you can do to keep updated in your field. 
  • Join online courses and webinars to improve yourself professionally in your free time. You can check out websites such as FutureLearn, Coursera, edX that offer online courses in many different subject areas from teaching to psychology.  
  • Join in-service training and educational seminars if your school or other institutions provide these services. 
  • Watch educational videos and listen to podcasts. For instance, if you want to prepare online educational games, you can get help from videos or podcasts by following the instructions mentioned one by one before your classes. 
  • Start a weekend blog and use it as a notebook to remind yourself what you have learnt at university, to revise your past teaching experiences and to share your activity, game, lesson plan ideas with other colleagues in order to be able to improve your creative and critical thinking as a teacher. 
  • Follow the latest scientific studies carried out in your subject area to learn more about new  developments. You can check out Google Academics, ResearchGate and Academia as well as universities’ websites and social media accounts. 
  • Follow other colleagues on social media as well as educational blogs and websites to widen your teaching perspective. 
  • Contact with other colleagues and researchers whose studies grab your attention on social media in order to help you gain more insight as a researcher as well as a teacher. 
  • Bear in mind that teachers are also researchers. Conduct research in your subject area after reviewing literature (the studies carried out by other researchers beforehand) and deciding on the right time for this. 

You can choose the best advice for yourself or you can follow all of these mentioned above step by step by making realistic future plans in order to help you improve yourself professionally.  

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Hi! My name is Ece. I am a freelance English teacher and a blogger sharing tips, notes, creative resources to help you with English language teaching and learning.

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