Professional Development

Originated by Birmingham MA TEFL/TESL students

First of all, three big hearty thank yous to David Paul:

1) For bringing the University of Birmingham distance MA courses to Japan some years ago, thus allowing us much more professional development than we could ever have imagined, and,

2) For taking on the editorship of this website for the benefit of teachers all around Asia and thus increasing his workload even further.

3) For recently inviting a few of us to start this column of behalf of the many people we have met through our MASH network.

We are very excited to have this opportunity to "learn by doing" and to "join the EFL conversation" as contributors to this excellent venture.

The new ELT NEWS site looks just gorgeous, and the caliber of people involved made us jump at the chance to join in. We would also like to invite you to join as well.

The only purpose of MASH - NAMES, FACES & IDEAS is to introduce you to some fantastic people who have made a commitment to their own professional development. If you too would like to Meet, Ask, Share & Help others on your own way to professional development through collaboration, then we share the same goals. If you would like to submit an article like the ones here, simply contact Steven Herder and I'll be happy to get you set up with a template and answer any questions. We are really committed to getting things done, and we love to meet like-minded professionals.

Cheers,

Steven Herder

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