Advancing Learning Podcast

To kick-off the second season of Macmillan Education's Advancing Learning Podcast, Will and Harry are joined by the Eltonix pair, Sea Steele and Sarah Smith to discuss what curiosity is, how brains work when they're curious and how it can be leveraged as one of the most crucial elements to make learning productive.

Harry is joined by Marcela Villan to explore a whole range of classroom ideas that you can use to help your learners to explore the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals in class.

Bookmark this session to keep these ideas in your back pocket for future lesson planning and let's make sure we include our learners in making a positive impact on the environment in how they live and behave.

Claire Bowes, with more than 1.5 million followers across her Instagram and Tik-tok profiles, Englii, joins Will and Harry (not the Princes, the other two) discussing some best practices for getting heard amongst the social media din!

They take a closer look at how teachers can get started if your thinking about creating more student-facing English language content for social media, specifically Instagram and Tik-tok. 

For the second part of this conversation with the wonderful Donna Lee Fields, she probes Harry and Will on their own reactions to certain behaviour in the classroom.

The 3 of them look at 2 scenarios and how might a teacher label them in order to decide on an appropriate response at the moment it happens.

You might also want to know that if this episode is your 'cuppa', then you will almost certainly be interested in Learning Well, an English language course with well-being at its heart. Check out some samples here: https://www.macmillanenglish.com/catalogue/courses/young-learners/learningwell/course-information 

Ethan Mansur, author of the recently published Ready For C2 joins Harry and Will on the metaphoric sofa, to discuss how he got into authoring (and others might do so)  from being a teacher and teacher trainer. 

Hear from 3 differing perspectives on how a coursebook is written as well as some advice on how you might enter the world of publishing as an author!

This episode is brought to you by the Ready For series, which has just released the aforementioned C2 level, which you can check out right here:

https://www.macmillanenglish.com/catalogue/courses/exam-preparation/ready-for-c2-proficiency/course-information 

Harry and Will are joined by Adrian Underhill, a true icon of pronunciation and a lifelong advocate for supporting our language learners with the relevant knowledge and skills to develop their own pronunciation.

The conversation begins with a look a the why behind explicit teaching of pronunciation, quickly followed by how it should be taught, and importantly, how it should not be taught for the learners to genuinely and comprehensively improve their intelligibility.

Elspeth Pollock (teacher training, assessment and exams extraordinaire) joins Will and Harry for a brilliant discussion about C2 proficiency. They look at the student that has ambitions to achieve a C2 level on paper, and also what it takes to be a teacher preparing students for that paper.

This episode is brought to you by Ready For, a course that has been helping students prepare for their exams for over twenty years! The brand-new READY FOR C2 Proficiency level is the latest in the series and continues to provide the in-depth exam training for which the course is known.

Have a tour with the Ready For Showroom: https://www.showroom.macmillanenglish.com/ready-for-c2/hello 

In this second part to the 'Beyond the Classroom' episodes, Harry and Will delve in the wheres, whys and hows of teaching and learning, focusing on the comparisons between face-to-face vs. online teacher training.

What do you think? Does online teacher training's convenience compare to the social and collaborative nature of face-to-face training? Do you prefer a networking 3-4 days at a conference compared to a cosy few days in your room watching the latest webinars?

From their relatively unique perspectives within the wild world of ELT, Harry and Will discuss the life of a teacher outside the day-to-day of the language learning classroom.

This episode looks at some ways teachers might explore to diversify where they take their career outside of the teaching profession itself. Looking at various roles within publishing, teacher training and also a few curve balls. Enjoy ;)

In this standout episode with Harry and Will, we are joined by Donna Lee Fields to get her eye-opening perspective on reinforcing your students positively.

This episode looks at so-called 'bullying', and specifically 3 scenarios and how a teacher might respond in order to foster both positive relationships and kind environments.

You might also want to know that if this episode is your 'cuppa', then you will almost certainly be interested in Learning Well, an English language course with well-being at its heart. Check out some samples here: https://www.macmillanenglish.com/catalogue/courses/young-learners/learningwell/course-information