TiPPS for MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT AND ADAPTATION
Imagine you are at a job interview and you just mentioned that an important part of your teaching philosophy is to give students more control over their learning. The employer asks how you actually do that in a classroom situation, and you open your briefcase and pull out an activity that illustrates exactly how you do it. That would make a positive impression on just about any employer.
If you have any original or adapted activities, lessons, modules, or projects that have worked well in class, why not write them up and include them as part of your portfolio? Take a good look at the activities to see if, or how, they reflect your philosophy of teaching.
And since you've made the effort to write it all out, why not take the extra step of trying to get it published? Quite a number of language teaching journals are perpetually looking for good ideas to include in their pages. Why not yours? It would be yet another item to add to your CV to make it all that much more impressive to a perspective employer.
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