Please keep these guidelines in mind before you structure your TeachingEnglish blog.

Guidelines to follow:

1. You need to submit an application form to be considered part of the TeachingEnglish Blogathon. Click here to apply.  Following your application, you will be given login permission to start a blog on TeachingEnglish website.

2. Blog posts should contain original and unique content. The best blog posts contain interesting and unique content. Readers are interested in reading new materials.

3. Write in a friendly and informal style. Refer to your real teaching experience in the classroom.

4. Keep it short. Your blog posts shouldn’t be more than 250 words.

5. Add tags. Tags are keywords and short phrases that you can use to describe your topic. You should categorize any blog post that you have written by adding tags to it. Tags will allow you and other members to easily see what the post is about and find related posts.  

6. Use titles to attract your audience. Your title should be catchy and should reflect what is delivered in the blog post.

7. Share accurate information. Make sure to reference any outside sources.

8. Break content into smaller. Make your post readable by using bulleted lists or breaking into paragraphs.

9. Drop by others’ blogs and make a comment!

10. A Creative Commons attribution-non-commercial-no derivative works 2.0 UK: England and Wales licence applies to all entries. In the event of any dispute regarding the rules, conduct, results and all other matter relating to the ELT Blogathon, the decision of the British Council shall be final and no correspondence or discussion shall be entered into. British Council reserves the right to disqualify any entrant if there are reasonable grounds to believe the entrant has breached any of the rules.

Download the guidelines.
Download the evaluation criteria
Read TeachingEnglish House Rules.

Terms and conditions

1. Entrants must be teachers of English in Turkey.
2. All blog entries will be published on the British Council TeachingEnglish site.
3. A Creative Commons attribution-non-commercial-no derivative works 2.0 UK: England and Wales licence applies to all entries.
4. Only entrants who registered through the application form will be accepted.
5. In the event of any dispute regarding the rules, conduct, results and all other matters relating to the ELT Blogathon, the decision of the British Council shall be final and no correspondence or discussion shall be entered into.
6. British Council reserves the right to disqualify any entrant if there are reasonable grounds to believe the entrant has breached any of the rules.
7. All blog entries are moderated by the TeachingEnglish moderators.