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The Art of Story Arcs and Transitions in Language Lessons (With Diederik Van Gorp)
Why Students Don't Like Language Class (With Dave Weller)
Principles For Designing Better Tasks (with Dave Weller)
Getting Time on Your Side (with Allan Crocker)
Timing causes so many problems for teachers – activities which run on too long, running out of time at the end of a lesson, not finding time to plan or reflect – but we rarely discuss time and how to deal with it. In this episode Ross and Trinity CertTESOL course director Allan Crocker discuss the issues related to time; how time influences how we teach, the problems it causes and how we can spend it better.
Questions About Questions (with Matt Courtois & Karin Xie)
We spend a lot of our time asking questions, either to our students, our trainees or ourselves. What makes an effective question? We discuss different models of asking questions to students, typical mistakes trainers make in asking questions and the most powerful questions we can ask ourselves to reflect.
Podcast: Engaging and Inspiring Teenagers (with Ed Dudley)
Podcast: Context - the Secret Sauce in Language Teaching & Training (with Matt Courtois)
Understanding what people in say from the sounds they make is all but impossible without context, even in our first language. So how can we make more use of this amazing tool which helps prediction, understanding, engagement and application? We discuss what context is, why it’s important and how to incorporate it when teaching adults, teaching kids and in teacher training.
Podcast: Should Teachers Even Talk?!
Podcast: Personalizing Learning, Development and Work
Personalization is in every aspect of our lives; the clothes we wear, the TV we watch, the podcasts we listen to. But what about in language teaching? In this episode we discuss how teachers can personalize lessons and materials for students, how trainers can personalize development for teachers and how managers can personalize work for their staff.
Podcast: Teaching Writing to the Students We Forgot (with David Tait)
Why don't we teach writing more? Is writing less interesting than other skills? Or less useful? Or just harder to teach? We (Ross, Tracy and Matt Courtois) speak to published author and ESL writing specialist David Tait about how to teach writing and the students who thrive when writing that we forget about when teaching speaking.
The Spaces We Teach In
There are more or less three constants present in every educational setting: students, teachers and classrooms. This episode we focus not on the participants, but on the spaces for English language learning. We discuss how to set up a classroom, how seating can support your students (or sabotage your lesson) and how teachers and students can benefit from moving their class outside the classroom (from time to time).
Podcast: How to Survive Your Next Observed Lesson (with Matt Courtois)
Podcast: Taking Role Plays from Nerdiness to Awesomeness (with Fifi Pyatt)
We talk with self confessed role play and ESL nerd Fifi Pyatt to look at how to take role plays from nerdiness to awesomeness and discuss how to help students get as much as possible from role plays and also go off on tangents about burning witches and dungeons and dragons…