Our second guest for this series featuring new GrapeSEED teachers is Elena Korotkikh, a teacher in Russia!

In this series, we have asked some of our former teacher guests to come on and share their expertise on a couple questions per episode. On this episode, we welcome Aaron Jones, Will Rice, Bruno Di Stefano and Matthew Green!

Questions for this episode:

1. Give us a more advanced classroom management tip. (A technique beyond "praising students" or "set clear rules and expectations")

2. How specifically do you start your GrapeSEED classes? (Is there a set introduction/set of questions or do you just immediately start with the first item in the Lesson Plan?)

Our second topic of this new series is the joy of learning and focusing on student success.

On this GrapeSEED Friends, we welcome Maria Beketova, a teacher in Russia!

On this GrapeSEED Friends, we welcome Tessa Nguyen, a teacher in Vietnam!

GrapeSEED Talks are a special set of online calls the GrapeSEED Japan team has with teachers. They talk about a variety of topics, from teaching upper units to classroom management to simply how teachers set up their classrooms. There is so much good stuff on these, that I wanted to share the best parts with our international audience!

For this second installment, I wanted to highlight some clips from a discussion on classroom management!

In this series, we have asked some of our former teacher guests to come on and share their expertise on a couple questions per episode. On this eleventh episode, we welcome Aaron Jones, Will Rice, Bruno Di Stefano and Matthew Green!

Questions for this episode:

1. As a GrapeSEED teacher enters their second year of teaching, they probably have the flow of GrapeSEED teaching down- how to teach the different types of components and how to use the Lesson Plans. What advice do you have for them to continue growing?

2. How do you track student progress?

On this Deep Dive, Joshua Meade, a teacher in Osaka, Japan, joins us to talk about what his school does with students outside of normal GrapeSEED time to further encourage their growth with English!

On today's This and That episode, Miklos and I talk about the similarities and differences between babies learning their first language and GrapeSEED students learning English!

The podcast we reference is this one: https://www.npr.org/2021/01/25/960350566/exploring-the-human-voice

GrapeSEED Talks are a special set of online calls the GrapeSEED Japan team has with teachers. They talk about a variety of topics, from teaching upper units to classroom management to simply how teachers set up their classrooms. There is so much good stuff on these, that I wanted to share the best parts with our international audience!

For this first installment, I wanted to highlight some clips from a special talk the Japan team did where they held a question-and-answer session with teachers and Kelly Young, GrapeSEED's Vice President of Product Innovation. Teachers could submit their questions in advance or ask Kelly directly. Enjoy listening to Kelly's thoughtful answers with a small cameo from both Miklos and friend of the show, Greig!