Our guest, Flavia Miguel, English teacher at local and state schools, content editor and materials writer, shares some of her seasoned experience about materials writing with our audience in this episode. 

She can be reached at [email protected]

                                                                                        What I love about teaching is that I’m the first one to learn.

English and Portuguese consultant for Altitude Career Coaching, our guest Andrea Mataruna reminds us of the joy of planning and preparing materials for our classes and the benefits they bring to our personal growth. 

In this episode, we talk about the connection between Professional Development, Professional Learning, Self assessment and Self Regulation and provides practical tips on how teachers can make the right choices to grow professionally while investing in their mental and emotional health. 

Her post on Communication skills can be found here

https://altitudecareercoaching.com/communication-checkup/

She can be found online at 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreamataruna/

https://www.facebook.com/aplusenglishpage

Instagram: @aplusenglishpage

Our Advisory Board member Eduardo Mazzeu gives us his top tips for dealing with listening activities. This was part of the BT Rio Night Live event, broadcast on Instagram on March 29th, 2020.

Our guest this episode is Tamires Gama, an online English teacher with over four years of experience under her belt and owner of SIMPLIFICA. She talks a little more about her presentation in our online event held on July 4 and 5, 2020 called Overcoming Challenges in Education and gives some incredible insights on the following topics:

The impact technical and pedagogical issues have on online learning;

Tips and best practices for online instruction

Moments in which things go wrong in online teaching. 

What is prosodic training in language teaching and why is it important? Our guest and teacher trainer Aline Coutinho goes into more detail about the role of the awareness prosody plays in relaying information and conveying meaning. She also explains how sensitizing learners can improve their listening skills. In addition, the episode covers the following topics:

Examples of melodic and rhythmic cues we don't usually notice;

Practical activities teachers can use to promote prosodic training

Ways to raise student awareness of the benefits prosodic training can bring to their listening skills

Advice for teachers to develop their own knowledge of English prosody

Aline can be found on Instagram at @movaaceleradora

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To motivate our students, all we need are games, right? Well, our advice is you grab a cup of coffee,  sit tight and listen in to our guest Bruno Albuquerque as he makes the connection (or lack thereof) between games, gamifying a lesson and motivating students in the language classroom. Our talk dealt with the following issues:

Our guest can be reached on Instagram as @brunoalbuqrq. 

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Thanks for listening!