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Dear readers,

Welcome to the October 2026 issue of The Pilgrims Teacher Trainer Journal.

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We are always looking to be innovative and I believe that once again we have achieved this,

In keeping with our aim to be innovative, I am really pleased to say we have just held the first Pilgrims online conference – Humanising Language Teaching Today – on 10^th and 11^th October in collaboration with our sister magazine Humanising Language Teaching. We had almost 100 participants from across the world, all engaging in the experience of what humanising language teaching can mean today. There will be various reports on the conference in forthcoming issues of both The Pilgrims Teacher Trainer Journal and Humanising Language Teaching so do watch out for these. The conference brochure with details of all the speakers and presentations is still available with this link https://www.pilgrims.co.uk/teacher-training-courses/online-conference

The Pilgrims Teacher Trainer Journal remains free to access for everyone, though I am sure you understand producing the journal to the highest standards involves significant resources. The Pilgrims Teacher Trainer Journal will be pleased to promote and sponsor your products with an advert or advertorial. You can find information on how to do so in this issue. We are also looking at ways to both ensure and increase the professionalism of the journal and how we are going to do this will be communicated in 2027.

As usual, our contributions reflect global realities – in this issue, contributors are from Argentina, France, Israel, Italy, Nigeria, Portugal,Ukraine, USA, United Kingdom and Türkiye.

We continue with our serialised contributions by Penny Ur – in this issue, some tips on webinars and online courses, Chris Sowton discusses reaching teachers in under resourced contexts, Jon Phillips writes about learning strategies to maximise learning outcomes, Alierza Maleki (a regular contributor) raises the issue of teachers’ salaries, Mariana Hildago continues our discussion of AI and teacher judgement, Silivia Luppi and Silvia Rettaroli on the lessons of their mentor development course, Tom Godfrey on the human at the heart of teaching and Stefy Ballotto and Csilla Jaray-Ben look back on their presentations at TESOL Spain and APPI, Portugal.

In this issue we have two reviews – one by Anabel Reis Alves (also a Pilgrims’ team member) on A Framework for Task-Based Learning and from Enobong Imaha from Nigeria on Stories of Action Research in Thailand.

We are especially delighted to promote two of our innovative video conversations. The first with Caludia Ferradas in Argentina on her rich linguistic journey and how poetry and literature have inspired her. The second conversation is from the Ukraine – Nataliia Krynska, Nataliia Tuchina and Lada Krasovytska on their experience of the Mentoring Teacher Educators for Exploratory Action Research programme.

In The Pilgrims Teacher Trainer Journal, we continue our existing collaboration with the British Council Teacher Educator Network through the British Council teacher educator newsletter British Council Teacher Educator Newsletter October 2026

We also continue to collaborate with the MenTRnet network https://mentrnet.net/ as we give voice to teacher educators across the world. Many of these voices are new, young (and more mature) teacher educators who may not have had access to publishing before. Please see also a link to the MenTRnet research website:

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research

We continue to link with the Munich Teachers Association Newsletter Munich English Language Teachers Association Newsletter, the TESOL Spain Journal https://www.tesol-spain.org/en/news/9/the-tesol-spain-journal.html and MATSDA Materials Development Association https://www.matsda.org/

As always, we continue to support and promote our sister magazine Humanising Language Teaching As always, we continue to support and promote our sister magazine Humanising Language Teaching https://www.hltmag.co.uk

HOT NEWS:

We have two pieces of hot news this time.

Firstly, we had a very successful July and August with our Pilgrims teacher training course in July in Segovia – especially with the partnership with the Castilla y Leon training department and also with our collaboration with the Learn and Lead Innovation network in August.

More hot news is that we will be back in Segovia in July 2027 and we also intend to offer a Pilgrims’ course experience in the beautiful city of Edinburgh. More news soon on our website.

Secondly. Pilgrims is transitioning to an independent not for profit organization in 2027 with membership open to all teachers and teacher educators – more news on this will appear on our website – so do check this out as it becomes available. https://www.pilgrims.co.uk/teacher-training-courses

We hope you continue to enjoy The Pilgrims Teacher Trainer Journal and our contribution to encouraging the best of good practice in teacher education. As always, we would be delighted to receive feedback on any of the articles which you can send to me at the email address below and we would love to receive contributions – articles, interviews, book and resources reviews from teacher educators globally.

For more detailed information on anything regarding The Pilgrims Teacher Trainer Journal, contact Phil Dexter phil.dexter@pilgrimsttj.com

Phil: phil.dexter@pilgrimsttj.com

We would love to receive contributions – articles, interviews, book and resources reviews from teacher educators globally. A brief description of the guidelines for writers can be found on the website. For more detailed information contact Phil: phil.dexter@pilgrimsttj.com

A brief description of the guidelines for writers can be found on the website. For more detailed information contact Phil: phil.dexter@pilgrimsttj.com. Our Teacher Trainer Journal is very much a public face of Pilgrims in promoting excellence in education.

The journal continues to be intended to be YOUR VOICE in reflecting and sharing global ideas on teacher education. In doing this, sometimes an article may seem to be a little controversial and though we strive for everything to be evidence-informed, this also means there may be strong personal views on a topic. We believe that The Pilgrims Teacher Trainer Journal should be a space for this. And, of course, we welcome debate and would very much welcome any responses to articles that we publish.

phil.dexter@pilgrimsttj.com