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A summary of “Teaching Lexically”, SLB Training Session, Nov 2014

As a preview of our next teacher-training session, a training clinic with Geoff Jordan on the 21st of February, it was about time we had a look back to our last workshop – and indeed our first publicly held SLB […]

SLB Info Session & Teacher-Training Clinic with Geoff Jordan

We would like to invite you to two events being held on Saturday, February 21st in Barcelona: an info session about our cooperative from 11.00-12.30, and a special teacher-training workshop with Geoff Jordan from 12.30-14.00. The venue is Coworking Domènech at […]

My Professional Development Challenges – and a sneaky list of EAP resources

George Chilton writes for Cooperativa de Serveis Lingüístics de Barcelona   So I promised to write a post outlining my professional challenges for 2015. I gave myself until the end of January to do this. True to my word, it’s […]

The SLB Blog Challenge!  “My Professional Development Objectives 2015”

Hello, this is our first blog /tʃalɪn(d)ʒ/ to TEFL teachers, translators, and any other interested people. We’re issuing this in December, but really this is a blog post for 2015. What’s it all about? If you’re anything like me, you make […]

Co-founding the Cooperative: Alan Ritchie talks about his motivations

Alan Ritchie is an English teacher, trainer, and translator based in Barcelona, Catalonia.  Alan has been living in Barcelona since he qualified as an English teacher in 2006 with the Trinity Certificate in  TESOL, and 5 years later the Cambridge Diploma in […]

Why I joined the Cooperativa de Serveis Lingüístics de Barcelona

Laura Hesse is a teacher specialised in business English, job interview preparation and preparation for official exams. She lives and works in Barcelona, and has over ten years’ experience in education. In this post she talks about her reasons for becoming a […]

International TEFL Survey

Are Non-Native Speaker Teachers Discriminated Against?  Cooperativa de Serveis Lingüístics de Barcelona’s 2014  international TEFL survey finds that there is a significant disparity in pay between similarly qualified non-native speaker teachers and their native speaking counterparts.   This is part […]

Why I Joined Cooperativa de Serveis Lingüístics de Barcelona

George Chilton talks a little more about what SLB is developing, and why he decided to join Irene Almazán, Alan Ritchie and Neil McMillan in co-founding this services sharing cooperative. Training, workshops, and professional development for teachers and translators I […]

SLB Training Session 29/11/14

SLB is proud to present its first open teacher-training session on November 29th in Barcelona. The focus of this practical workshop will be:      When is it?Saturday November 29th, 2014, 1100-1300  What’s it all about? Teaching lexically, or focusing […]

How can I bill if I’m not freelance?

In this post we’ll try to address a question which comes up again and again in teachers’ forums and group pages in Spain. The situation goes something like this: I work for an academy but  a company has offered me […]

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