Professional Development - PD related websites

Personal Development

Behaviour/Classroom Management:
- 6 Things to Implement Now
- Behaviour 2 Learn
- Better Behaviour: Micro-skills
- Bill Rodgers Top Ten Tips
- Dr Bill Rodgers Videos
- East-West:
- Chinese v Western Beliefs
- Views on the Self
- Five Ways of Managing
- Managing Behaviour
- Mindfulness Lessons Do Not Work
- Promoting Positive Behaviour
- TeacherVision.com
- The Teacher's Guide

Communication:
- 10 Ways For Better Conversation
- How to Speak so People Listen
- Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe

Courses:
- Coursera Online Courses
- Guide to Irrational Behavior
- edX Online Courses
- FutureLearn Online Courses
- Online Providers
- Teacher PD Courses: Click Here

Critical Thinking: Click Here

eLearning:
- E-Books: Considerations for Early Readers
- Systematic Evaluation of Apps

General Pedagogy:
- Catering to Learner Diversity
- Coding is Not Fun, It's Technically Complex
- Differentiated Instruction
- Effective Teaching: Ten Tips
- Hattie Ranking of Student Achievement
- Integrative Education Model
- Myth of Learning Styles:
      - More Evidence Against
      - No Evidence to Back Idea
      - ResearchGate Paper
      - Stop Propogating the Myth
      - Tackling the Myth
      - Yale Center for Teaching
- Theme-based Teaching and Learning for YLs
- Tools for Teaching by Fred Jones
     (Change number in URL to read all 47 pages)

Higher Order Thinking for Ss:
- Critical Thinking, Creativity and
Cultural Awareness Through
Language Arts
- The Little Boy Analogy: Vsn 1, Vsn 2
- Metacognition and Student Learning
- ReadWriteThink Strategy Guides
- Thinking Strategies

Language Acquisition:
- ESL Research
- Five Stages of 2nd Lang Acquisition
- Motiviation in 2nd Language
- Remedial Teaching of English
- Understanding Language
- Understanding Learning English

Phonics:
- Analytic v Synthetic
- HKedCity Phonics
- Phonemic Awareness
- Phonics in Action
- Principles of Quality Phonics (UK)
- Progression in Phonics (UK)
- Strategies to Maximize Pleasurable
Learning Experiences
- When Language Arts Meets Phonics

Professionalism:
- Finland's Secret Sauce: Its Teachers
- Professional Capital: Video, Paper

Reading:
- Children of the Code
- Common Problems & How To Help
- Enhancing Decoding Efficiency
- Enhancing Vocabulary Learning
- The Four Resources Model
- HKedCity Shared Reading
- Inquiry-Based Reading Instruction
- Matthew Effect in Reading
- Reading Aloud to Children: The Evidence
- Reading Recovery Strategies
- Reading Workshop: My Classroom
- Resources
- Student-led Book Talks
- Teaching Reading (Aus National Literacy Inquiry)

Research Tools:
- Citation Guide (Purdue OWL)
- Search: CUHK, ERIC, Google Scholar, Library Genesis
- Scrivener Content Generation Tool

Touch Typing:
- Online Typewriter
- Touch Typing
- Type Online.co.uk
- Type Writer
- Z-Type

Useful Texts:
- The Differentiated Classroom (Tomlinson)
- Games for Language Learning (Wright)
- Growing Up in a Risk Averse Society (Gill)
- How to Teach English (Harmer)
- Library Genesis Search
- Multimodality and Literacy in the Classroom (Jewitt)
- Practical English Usage (Swann)
- The Practice of ELT (Harmer)
- Project Gutenburg Free eBooks
- Research Methods in Education (Cohen)
- Teaching Drama in the Classroom (Dowdy)
- Teaching Foreign Lang to Learners with SEN (Pokriv)
- Teaching Languages to YLs (Cameron): 1, 2
- Teaching and Learning 21st Century Skills (Rand)

Critical Thinking

A-Z of Terms
AI:
- 7-year Facial Recognition Flop
- A Step Closer
- AI in China: The Reality (2021)

- AI Winter Here Already (2020)
- AI Psychosis: Jobs Won't Be Affected

- Bias:
    - Amazon Scraps Biased Tool
    - Notes on Bias
    - Training Sets Bias
        - Human Labelling
- Brain Downloading Won't Work

- Can't Tell If You're Happy
- Deepmind:
- No Predictions Yet (2019)
- Still Just Hype (2021)

- Hyperbole and Hysteria
- Lugic Fallacy, Moravec's Paradox
- Machine Learning Does Not Predict

- Meta's Model Survived 3 Days Online

- Should We Be Afraid
- Startups Omit Cloud Costs
- Will AI Live Up to the Hype? (2020)
Advertising Fraud:
- A Beginner's Guide to Fraud
- Biggest Online Fraud in History
- Facebook Advertising
- Facebook/Google Eyeball Harvesting
- Facebook Promotion Model Woeful

Automation:
- Robots are Not Coming For Your Job
- The end of work myth
Cognitive Decline:
- Mental Activity Does Not Prevent CD
- Problem-solving Does Not Protect CD
Conspiracy Thinking
- Answering Conspiracy Theorists
- Skeptics' Evil Twin
Cyberattacks:
- Biggest in History
- Olympics 2018 Ceremony

Digitalisation:
- Elon Musk Projects
     - No Elon No!
- Experiment With Everything
- Facebook:
    - Costs Journalist Jobs
      - Metaverse - Who is Still Using it?
    - Metaverse - Ways to Think About it
- How Bad Data Infiltrated UK Politics
- How to Call BS on Big Data
- Misinformation Wars
- Online Safe Harbour Has a Problem
- Premature Freak-out about Tech
- Seven Myths of the Digital Age
- Social Credit: The Messy Truth
- Social Credit: ChinaThrough a Glass
- Social Media Harm: No Evidence
- The Day 4 Million Kids Disappeared
- The House That Spied on Me
- We Are Different From History
- Why Netflix Viewing Figures Matter
- Why Paper Jams Persist
Environment:
- Net Zero Buildings Decades Away
- Net Zero: Developing v Developed Nations
Myths:
- Chocolate Helps Weight Loss
- Detox Myth
- Dutch Tulip Mania Myth
- Five Things Economists Know
- Lab-Grown Meat is Inevitable
- Lie Detectors Detect Body Language
- Mental Toughness: No Such Thing
- TV Detector Vans
- Ultra-Processed Foods Cause Death
- Wind Turbines Killing Birds
Neuroscience:
- Biologising Parenting
- Boost Intelligence by Training?
- Brain Training: A Meta Review
- Brain Training - No Walk in the Park
- Exercise For Your Memory
- Growing Better Brains
- Learning to Tame a Noisy Brain
- Reality is Constructed by Your Brain
Plastic:
- Disposable Cup Won't Save the Earth
- Distracts from Climate Change
- Harms Ocean Evidence Weak
- Recycling Truths

Pseudoscience:
- Anatomy of Pseudoscience
- Anti-GMO Lies, Myths and Propaganda
- Denialism
- Logical Fallacies:
- A Guide
- Master List
- Mindfulness v Watching TV
- Mindfulness Lessons Do Not Work

Scientific Literacy:
- 3 Things to Make Sense of the World
- Checklist Manifesto
- How to Calculate the Odds of Aliens

- Intro: Part 1, Part 2
- pHacking
- Reproducibility is Critical
- Exposure of Faked Dishonesty Study

- Scientific Studies
- What Journalists Get Wrong
Self-driving Cars:
- Are they Going to Happen?
- Can Uber Ever Make a Profit (2017)
      - Uber Abandons Self-drive (2020)
      - Uber Sells Off Pipe Dream (2020)
- Further Away Than Told
- How bad is the Hype
- Meet Reality (2021)
- Remote Backup Not Safe
- Tesla:
      - Exposing the Fraud (2022)
      - Faked Autopilot Video (2021)
      - Farcical Self-Delusion (2021)
      - Tesla Autopilot Crashes
      - Still no Robotaxis (2021)
      - Still no L5 Autonomy (2021)
      - Where's my Self-Driving Car? (2023)

- Won't Deliver Revolution

Teacher Professional Development Courses

Hong Kong		Other
Baptist University: - Master of Education (Eng Lang for Teaching Concentration) - Master of Education / GDPE CELTA Courses Chinese University of HK (CU): - Academic Programmes - MA in TESOL COTAP: - Non-EDB Training Calendar Education University of HK (EdUHK): - Academic Programmes - Master of Education - MA in TESOL - PG Dip in Education - Discussions: 1, 2, 3, 4 - PG Dip in English Studies - Public Lecture Series - ~~TESOL for NETS + LETs~~ (2009, 2010 only)	Fees: - All ID Card Holders Pay Local Fees - Continuing Education Fund: - Details of $10,000 Grant - Discussion First Aid Courses Post Graduate: - EDB Recognised Programmes School-based: - Professional Support Progs (Education Development Fund) Special Needs: Click Here University of HK (HKU) - Academic Programmes - MA in TESOL - Master of Education (MEd) - Discussion - MSc(ITE) - PG Advanced Ed'l Studies - PG Dip in Education (PGDE) - Discussions: 1, 2, 3, 4 - Graduation Forms - Worldwide Recognition: 1, 2	Australia: - PGDE Discussion - HKU PGDE Recognition - Sunderland PGCE Recognition Distance Learning: - Masters: 1, 2 - IB Online Courses: 1, 2 New Zealand: - Accepted PGDE Courses - Recognised Qualifications Guides TEFL: - i-to-i Online Courses - TEFL International - ICAL Online Teacher Training United Kingdom: - Accepted PGDE Courses - Derby MEd. TESOL - East London MA - MA Special Needs - TES iPGCE - NARIC Cert of Comparability (For HK and Foreign Certs) - Nottingham PGCEi: - Not Recognised by EDB - QTS For Those Who Don't Have It: 1, 2 - Sunderland PGCE: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 - Equivalent to HK PGDE - How to Get EDB to Recognise It: 1, 2 - Ask For Practicum Letter (2024) - Recognised as of Aug 2021