TEFL Equity Advocates was set up in April 2014 in order to speak out for equal professional opportunities for ‘native’ and ‘non-native’ English speaking teachers in ELT.

One of the main aims of the campaign is to encourage schools and organisations to establish egalitarian employment policies which will give equal opportunities to both ‘native’ and ‘non-native’ English speaking teachers. Some of these schools are listed in the Hall of Fame here.

Since then, it has grown to now feature a regularly updated blog, a job board, and most recently on-line teacher training courses on TEFL Equity Academy. Similarly to the rest of TEFL Equity Advocates activities, the aim of the courses is to further raise awareness of the profound ‘native speaker’ bias in ELT, and to give teachers the tools to overcoming it.

The aim of TEFL Equity Advocates has always been to be a place for discussion, exchange of ideas and above all a source of inspiration and motivation that change is possible. Also, I would like to make it clear from the start that this website and campaign is not only directed at ‘non-native speaker’ teachers. In fact, some of the best and most popular posts on the blog have come from ‘native speakers’. I would then be delighted if more ‘native speaker’ teachers joined the movement, publishing, commenting and advocating equal rights for all teachers. After all, we’re in it together. So if you are interested in the topic and would like to be published on the blog, get in touch.

Find out more about TEFL Equity Advocates from this presentation and the sections below.