It’s Sunday night. Across the globe, thousands of ELT professionals are locked into a familiar ritual. The lesson plans? Meticulously laid out. The interactive slides? Polished and ready. The virtual learning folders? Perfectly organised. On paper, the upcoming week looks absolutely flawless. Inside the educator, however, a completely different reality is unfolding. There’s that familiar, heavy tightening in the chest—a Sunday-night anxiety fueled by caffeine, sheer willpower, and the...

The One Skill No Algorithm Can Hand Us – by Sushil Penuti at ELi Publishing We have spent two years asking what AI will do to our students. Perhaps we have been asking the wrong question. The machines can summarise a novel in seconds, answer every comprehension question we set, and write the essay before the bell even rings. So here is the uncomfortable truth I keep returning to as a teacher: if a tool can do the reading for our learners, why would they ever do it themselves? I think about...

Last Wednesday at 1.55 pm I was perched at the back of the room, my mentor's observation notepad balanced on my knee while the classroom was turning into something that looked like a busy airport terminal packed with passengers eager to board their flight. Over the last few weeks I had been officially assigned to look after Martina, our latest trainee teacher, tasked with sitting in on her lessons, observing her progress, and delivering that always-dreaded post-class feedback. On paper, her...