Experiential Teacher Training (with Tessa Woodward)
Teacher trainer and author Tessa Woodward joins me to talk about experiential learning in teacher training. What is experiential learning? W...
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TEFL Training Institute Podcast
The TEFL Training Institute centers around one big idea – helping teachers develop. If you're a TEFL teacher, trainer or manager and you're looking for new ideas, you've come to the right pl...
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Personalization for Young Learners (with Matt Courtois)
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Peer Observation (with Lesley Painter-Farrell)
In this episode, I talk to Lesley Painter-Farrell about peer observation. We discuss why watching another teacher can be one of the best way...
Assessment for Learning (with Thom Kiddle)
The TEFL Training Institute centers around one big idea – helping teachers develop. If you're a TEFL teacher, trainer or manager and you're...
Using and Flipping Your Coursebook (with Russell Stannard)
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Dilemmas in Language Assessment (with Kathleen Bailey)
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Using Stories in Language Teaching (with Mario Rinvolucri)
Mario Rinvolucri, author of “Once Upon a Time: Using stories in the language classroom” talk to us about storytelling, one of the “most comp...
What Teachers Need to Know About Corpora (with Paul Thompson)
Paul Thompson joins us to talk about corpora and what teachers need to know about them. We discuss how corpora can change how we think about...
Picturebook Read-Alouds and Young Learners (with Sandie Mourão)
Sandie Mourão joins me to discuss using picturebooks with very young learners. We discuss reasons for choosing a story (beyond the words in...
How Languages Are (And Aren't) Learned (With Patsy Lightbown)
We hear about problems of training teachers, how learners overcome challenges and aspects of language teaching which still lag years behind...
Making Language Meaningful Using Games (with Andrew Wright)
Andrew Wright (author of 5 Minute Activities and Games for Language Learning) talks to us about using games in language class. For more podc...
End of Year Special: What's The Best Way To Become A Better Teacher (With Thomas Guskey)
In a special end of year double length episode, Professor Thomas Guskey, author of Evaluating Professional Development talks to us about the...
Changing Approaches and Methods in the Language Classroom (with Anne Carmichael)
We speak with Anne Carmichael, Trinity Diploma in TESOL course director and moderator about what it was like to experience the changes from...
Mediating Language, Texts and Coursebooks (with Ceri Jones)
Coursebook writer and teacher trainer Ceri Jones talks to us about mediation. How can teachers mediate their coursebook content to make it m...
Intercultural Communicative Language Teaching (with Jonathan Newton)
Professor Jonathan Newton joins me to discuss intercultural language teaching. What is it and what’s the best way of teaching it?
8th Anniversary: Changes to Teacher Training
We speak with friends and experts about teacher training and what needs to change.
PPP vs Task Cycles (with Jane Willis)
Jane Willis joins us to discuss the drawbacks of PPP and the benefits and challenges of using task cycles for language lessons. willis-ELT.c...
The Downsides to Speaking (with Professor Stephen Krashen)
In this episode, Stephen Krashen tells Ross some of the arguments against forcing students to speak, something which might not just be ineff...
Is Your Training Making a Difference? (with Niamh Ryan)
My friend Niamh Ryan, joins me to talk about evaluating teacher training. How can you tell if your training is making a difference?
Remembering More, Forgetting Less (with Lesley Painter-Farrell)
In this episode, I had the privilege of speaking with Professor Lesley Painter Farrell about how we can help students retain more language l...