One Pomodoro is a series of interviews with teachers, teacher trainers, authors, and experts in education by me for my IGTV on @edcrocks. The rule is: I MUST DO IT IN ONE POMODORO OR LESS. That's right. According to the Pomodoro technique, one Pomodoro equals 25min.

I confess I have broken the rules now and then and that sometimes my guests are not exactly in a noise-free environment but the interviews are normally kept under 30min and you can certainly hear what they have to say. I set my Pomodoro timer at the beginning of the interview and ask questions about that person's career, inspirations, dreams, challenges, and tips. When the timer rings, we have 5min to wrap up

One Pomodoro is a series of interviews with teachers, teacher trainers, authors, and experts in education by me for my IGTV on @edcrocks. The rule is: I MUST DO IT IN ONE POMODORO OR LESS. That's right. According to the Pomodoro technique, one Pomodoro equals 25min.

I confess I have broken the rules now and then and that sometimes my guests are not exactly in a noise-free environment but the interviews are normally kept under 30min and you can certainly hear what they have to say. I set my Pomodoro timer at the beginning of the interview and ask questions about that person's career, inspirations, dreams, challenges, and tips. When the timer rings, we have 5min to wrap up

One Pomodoro is a series of interviews with teachers, teacher trainers, authors, and experts in education by me for my IGTV on @edcrocks. The rule is: I MUST DO IT IN ONE POMODORO OR LESS. That's right. According to the Pomodoro technique, one Pomodoro equals 25min.

I confess I have broken the rules now and then and that sometimes my guests are not exactly in a noise-free environment but the interviews are normally kept under 30min and you can certainly hear what they have to say. I set my Pomodoro timer at the beginning of the interview and ask questions about that person's career, inspirations, dreams, challenges, and tips. When the timer rings, we have 5min to wrap up

One Pomodoro is a series of interviews with teachers, teacher trainers, authors, and experts in education by me for my IGTV on @edcrocks. The rule is: I MUST DO IT IN ONE POMODORO OR LESS. That's right. According to the Pomodoro technique, one Pomodoro equals 25min.

I confess I have broken the rules now and then and that sometimes my guests are not exactly in a noise-free environment but the interviews are normally kept under 30min and you can certainly hear what they have to say. I set my Pomodoro timer at the beginning of the interview and ask questions about that person's career, inspirations, dreams, challenges, and tips. When the timer rings, we have 5min to wrap up.

There has been quite a lot of buzz around the idea of joining neuroscience and education. Many would claim that neuroscientific contributions have the potential to revolutionize how teachers teach and the impact they have on their learners’ outcomes. I myself have said that on many occasions. However, I currently believe that many of the things effective teachers do are already grounded in evidence (whether they know it or not) and other things might not be in their hands. There is, of course, room for adding a few classroom practices that might yield better results. Let’s take a look at how neuroscience made its way into education, how the science of Mind, Brain, and Education emerged, and what that means for ELT.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://edcrocks.com/2021/03/04/the-origins-of-mind-brain-and-education-and-its-relation-to-elt/

Have you ever wondered why TED Talks are not that long? It might be related to the idea that we can't really focus for a very long time. As matter of fact, a quite popular study and work strategy called Pomodoro Technique can be used to explain why we need to take frequent short pauses in order to help our brains memorize new facts. This episode connects all of this with the idea of using Brain Breaks. Enjoy!

The objective of this episode is to focus on what we can do as educators and parents to help children cope with these especially difficult times. In short, what we want kids to be able to develop can be summarized in two terms that have been widely referred to in the specialized literature: emotional intelligence and self-regulation."

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://edcrocks.com/2020/09/10/emotional-intelligence-and-self-regulation-during-the-pandemic/

What's the best age to learn (or acquire) a second language? Is there a window of opportunity that closes? Is it really true that the "earlier, the better"? In this blog, I take a look at the linguistics debate on the critical period hypothesis and propose that it might not be too late to learn another language!

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://edcrocks.com/2018/12/02/a-critical-period-for-language-acquisition-lets-get-critical/

Teaching online can be quite challenging. What about when you have to teach from the physical classroom filled with in-person students while your lesson is live-streamed to those students who stayed at home? It may sound like an impossible task, mainly because of complicated logistics, but many teachers around the world had to embrace this modality: concurrent classrooms.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://edcrocks.com/2021/01/16/in-person-online-3-useful-models-for-concurrent-classrooms/

For those of you who know me, you can tell I'm a big fan of Project-Based Learning (PBL). What you might not know is how this passion of mine began. It was four years ago when I met an Iraqi woman and a platform to connect my students with students of the world. We all learned that prejudice and bias kept us from discovering a whole new world that was, in essence, not that different from our own. In this blog post, I tell the story of how I met my friend Afrah and how she connected with my groups and made a difference in our classes. How about trying something similar in 2021?

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://edcrocks.com/2021/01/18/affect-and-project-based-learning-the-two-transformative-tools-in-education-that-can-change-the-world/