Atena Juszko, ELT Editor | Writer | Project Manager
A lot of us make a list of New Year’s resolutions, but have you thought of resolutions for your business? Yes, even if you’re a solopreneur you still run a business and this might be the time to think of your New Year business goals. 1 Earnings Do you know how much you need to […]
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The end of the year is near which for me is a time when I reflect on the projects I worked on, the hours I spent working, and the amount of money I earned. It’s also the time when I start gathering documents for my accountant, so that he can prepare my tax return. I’m
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I’ve been working in ELT publishing for around 15 years now and the way I track my workload has always been the same regardless of my employment status (employee or freelancer). I’ve always used an Excel spreadsheet which you can see below. I got the template from an in-house digital project manager that I worked
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It’s been almost half a year since my last post – the one on six things I’ve learned from being a freelancer during a pandemic. I was really hoping that I wouldn’t need to write an update to that post. Unfortunately, the situation now is quite similar to where we were then. Many countries are
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Jayne Wildman has been involved in ELT for 30 years. She first started teaching children and teenagers in 1988. After teaching in Spain, Italy and the UK, Jayne spent several years in Oxford as an editor, before she began authoring her own books. Her first book was published in 2002, and since then she has
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Whether you’ve been working from home for years, or you’ve just started working remotely due to the Covid-19 pandemic, being away from an office and co-workers comes with a whole set of challenges. I’ve asked some of my publishing colleagues for their top working from home tips and they’ve come back with some great advice.
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There’s no denying that teachers are underpaid and that also includes ESL teachers working in state schools. Many of them have to seek other sources of income which, in most cases, means more teaching. But not everyone wants to spend every waking hour of their day prepping lessons, instructing, marking, and so on. So, what
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Inspired by Katherine Bilsborough’s post of the same title, I’ve decided to write my own day in the life post … as my day is slightly different. This is partly because I have small kids and only part-time childcare and partly because writing constitutes only around 40% of my work and the rest is content
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Katherine has worked in ELT for more than 30 years. She has published for a range of contexts and publishers. She writes blog posts and lesson plans for British Council Teaching English, and a monthly blog post for National Geographic Learning’s ‘In focus’ blog. Katherine is on the committee of IATEFL’s MaWSIG (Materials Writers Special
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Emily Bryson is an ELT materials writer, teacher trainer and ESOL Lecturer. She has written digital and print materials for a number of organizations, including Macmillan Education, The British Council, ELTJam and Language Fuel. She has been teaching ESOL at City of Glasgow College since 2007 and in that time has taught all levels and
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