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  • E53 - Teachers as Advocates: You can do it too! (with Rosemary Colón)

    Have you engaged in advocacy efforts as a language teacher? ✊ In this episode, guest Rosemary Colón talks about her experience at the 2023 TESOL Advocacy & Policy Summit and shares entry points for teachers to find their footing as advocates for English language learners.


    #advocacy #multilinguallearners #teacheradvocates#ELT #TeachEnglish #ESL #EFL #TESOL #Teaching #Education #LoveTeaching #GlobalELT #Teacher #English #LanguageLearning

    Advocacy Tools & Resources:

    • TESOL International's Advocacy Page 

    • Office of English Language Acquisition

    • Migration Policy Institute

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      32 min
    • E52 - The Power of Podcasting for Language Learning (with Anna Ayrapetyan)

      In this episode, guest Anna Ayrapetyan, a university professor in Armenia, walks us through her innovative approach to get students practicing speaking outside of the classroom: podcasts! 💡Learn about her process, receive recommendations for implementing this project in your context, and hear a snippet from a few of her students!

      #ProjectBasedLearning #PBL #Podcasting #PodcastingForLanguageLearning #PracticeSpeaking #ELT #TeachEnglish #ESL #EFL #TESOL #Teaching #Education #LoveTeaching #GlobalELT #Teacher #English #LanguageLearning

      🎧 On this episode: 

      • Episode 38: Incorporating music in ELT (with Heather and Ece of English as a Singing Language)
      • Episode 52: Stop hovering! (with Miriam Plotinsky)
      • Episode 27: Why we love project-based learning 

        • Questions for reflection:

        • Have you ever had students create podcasts to reach a learning objective? 
        • How have you integrated student-led podcasting into your teaching context?

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          29 min
        • E51 - Friends of the Podcast 2024: AI in ELT (VIDEO EPISODE 🎥)

          Happy New Year, everyone! 🌟 We’re kicking off 2024 with a special video episode: Friends of the Podcast - AI in ELT! Featuring voices from new and old friends. 🥰Listen and join the conversation about #AI and English language teaching, from why teachers are wary of it to creative ideas on how to use it for teaching. 💡 Watch on YouTube or Spotify for the full effect. 📽️ 

          🎧 On this episode: E48 - Bring your teaching alive with ChatGPT (with Jeff McIlvenna)

          🤖 AI Tools & Resources:

          • AI for Education, Prompt Library

          • Guidebook on Prompting for Language Learning

          • PDF.ai

          • Brisk Teaching

          • Twee

          • Bing Image Creator

          • Amira Learning

          • 99Math

            • 🥰 Old friends: 

            • Alex Tang: E46 - Challenging inequities toward multilingual teachers

            • Anna Ayrapetyan: E40 - TESOL Special 2023!

            • Dustin Steichman: E43 - Culture through stories (with Dustin Steichmann of Sandman Stories Presents)

            • Ekaterine Pipia: E47 - CLIL & team teaching: sweetening the pill

            • Heather McNaught & Ece Ulus: E38 - Incorporating music in ELT (with Heather and Ece of English as a Singing Language)

              • 🌱  New friends:

              • Anne Haggerson

              • Kim Carroll

              • Kyla McMillan

              • Johanna Gleason


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                39 min
              • E50 - State of the Podcast: a reflection, with 2023 bloopers!

                Episode 50…can you believe it?! 🌟 We’ve nested some fun bloopers into this reflective episode, in which we think back on our personal developments and podcast highlights from 2023. Listen to the very end (after the theme music) for one last little surprise. 😜 Wishing happy holidays to all! ☃️

                🎧 On this episode: 

                • E46 - Challenging inequities toward multilingual teachers (with Carine Saucillo and Alex Tang)

                • E44 - Global citizenship: Opening the view to the possible (with Brantley Turner)

                • E48 - Bring your teaching alive with ChatGPT (with Jeff McIlvenna)

                • E38 - Incorporating music in ELT (with Heather and Ece of English as a Singing Language)

                • E42 - Stop hovering! (with Miriam Plotinsky)

                • E43 - Culture through stories (with Dustin Steichmann of Sandman Stories Presents)

                  • Friends of the Podcast: AI in ELT 🤖

                  We need you! We want to know how you have started to use AI in your classroom. Tell us, and get featured on our annual Friends of the Podcast episode, where we integrate the voices of our listeners from around the world, to be released in early 2024. How to contribute: 

                  Step 1: Reflect on the following questions and how you would answer them:

                  1. Tell us your name, pronouns, and country.

                  2. What’s your teaching context? What’s your role? Who are your students?

                  3. Have you used AI? If not, why not? What’s your hesitation?

                  4. If you answered yes above, what have been your favorite 1-2 tools so far? What are the pros and cons?

                  5. Describe an activity you’ve tried in your classroom using this/these tool/s. How did it go? What tips do you have for implementing it?

                    6. Step 2: Access our WhatsApp group and record your answer as an audio memo. Alternatively, you can email us an audio file of your answers at [email protected].
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                    21 min
                  6. E49 - YouTube for English language teaching (with Amy Joy Rovirosa)

                    In this episode, guest Amy Joy Rovirosa, the creator of @your_fav_english_teacher, tells us about what it takes to get your English language teaching YouTube channel off the ground and how learners can leverage YouTube for greater language gains. Complete with excerpts from her fantastic videos! Watch the episode video on our YouTube channel or Spotify for the full effect. 📽️

                    ✔️ Follow Your Favorite English Teacher:

                    • TikTok

                    • Instagram

                    • YouTube

                      • 📽️ On this episode: 

                      • How to Hedge in English | Useful Vocabulary to Improve your Academic English

                      • English Vocabulary about Social Issues: 20 words you need to know

                      • What are American Weddings like? | Attend an American Wedding with Me!

                        • ⭐ Check out Amy Joy’s E-Book!

                        Questions for reflection:

                        • Do you have a favorite YouTube teacher? 

                        • Have you ever tried starting your own YouTube channel?

                          • Friends of the Podcast: AI in ELT 🤖

                          We need you! Episode 48 is just the beginning of our exploration of AI on the podcast. We want to know how you have started to use AI in your classroom. Tell us, and get featured on our annual Friends of the Podcast episode, where we integrate the voices of our listeners from around the world, to be released in early 2024. How to contribute: 

                          Step 1: Reflect on the following questions and how you would answer them:

                          1. Tell us your name, pronouns, and country.
                          2. What’s your teaching context? What’s your role? Who are your students?
                          3. Have you used AI? If not, why not? What’s your hesitation?
                          4. If you answered yes above, what have been your favorite 1-2 tools so far? What are the pros and cons?
                          5. Describe an activity you’ve tried in your classroom using this/these tool/s. How did it go? What tips do you have for implementing it?

                            6. Step 2: Access our WhatsApp group and record your answer as an audio memo. Alternatively, you can email us an audio file of your answers at [email protected].
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                            36 min
                          6. E48 - Bring your teaching alive with ChatGPT (with Jeff McIlvenna)

                            In this episode, guest Jeff McIlvenna talks through his approach to using ChatGPT in the English language classroom, from amplifying teacher creativity to personalizing student learning. This is the first of many more episodes we hope to bring to you on this ever-evolving topic.

                            🎓 For further exploration:

                            • #ElliiCon2023 Playlist
                            • Chat GPT’s Bias Against Non-Native Speakers

                              • Friends of the Podcast: AI in ELT 🤖

                              We need you! Episode 48 is just the beginning of our exploration of AI on the podcast. We want to know how you have started to use AI in your classroom. Tell us, and get featured on our annual Friends of the Podcast episode, where we integrate the voices of our listeners from around the world, to be released in early 2024. How to contribute: 

                              Step 1: Reflect on the following questions and how you would answer them:

                              1. Tell us your name, pronouns, and country.
                              2. What’s your teaching context? What’s your role? Who are your students?
                              3. Have you used AI? If not, why not? What’s your hesitation?
                              4. If you answered yes above, what have been your favorite 1-2 tools so far? What are the pros and cons?
                              5. Describe an activity you’ve tried in your classroom using this/these tool/s. How did it go? What tips do you have for implementing it?

                                6. Step 2: Access our WhatsApp group and record your answer as an audio memo. Alternatively, you can email us an audio file of your answers at [email protected].


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                                36 min
                              6. E47 - CLIL and team teaching: sweetening the pill (with Ekaterina Pipia)

                                Don’t forget to take your vitamins! In this episode, Shey and Anna speak with friend of the podcast Ekaterina Pipia about her experience facilitating an exciting project with @PH_Int at @ibsu1995 in Tbilisi, Georgia, in which civics, technology, and English language came together into a harmonious, healthy concoction… 💊

                                🎧 Further listening: Episode 2 - Shut up and let them talk! 

                                📚Further reading: What is CLIL? Bridge Education Group.

                                Questions for reflection:

                                • What’s your experience with CLIL? 

                                • Have you ever taught on a team? What was it like?

                                • What challenges did you run into and how did you overcome them?


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                                  19 min
                                • E46 - Challenging inequities toward multilingual teachers (with Alex Tang & Carine Saucillo)

                                  We’re back! Just a light little topic for our first episode after our summer break… 😜Don your social justice caps, kick into your critical lens, and prepare to reflect as Shey and Anna explore the challenges and strengths of multilingual teachers, commonly referred to as non-native English-speaking teachers (NNESTs), with research collaborators and super-ELT-stars Alex Tang and Carine Saucillo. 🌟Listen now!


                                  🎧 Further listening:

                                  • Episode 17 – The benefits of formal TESOL training
                                    • Episode 18 – Book Review: Race, Empire, & English Language Teaching

                                      • References & resources

                                      Lin, A. & Motha, S. (2020). Curses in TESOL: Postcolonial desires for colonial English. In R. Arber, M. Weinmaan & J. Blackmore (Eds.), Rethinking Languages Education: Directions, Challenges and Innovations. London: Routledge. 

                                      World Englishes: An Introduction. Purdue Online Writing Lab. 

                                      Kirkpatrick, A. (2014). World Englishes. In C. Leung & B.V. Street (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to English Studies. London: Routledge. 

                                      Ma, L.P.F. (2012). Strengths and weaknesses of NESTs and NNESTs: Perceptions of NNESTs in Hong Kong. Linguistics and Education, 23, 1-15. 


                                      Questions for reflection:

                                      • How have you seen bias against multilingual teachers play out in your teaching context? 

                                      • If English is your first language, how will you use your privilege to stand up for multilingual teachers worldwide?


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                                        34 min
                                      • E45 - PD in a post-pandemic world

                                        In this episode, Anna and Shey look at how the landscape for professional development evolved over the course of the pandemic and learn how international colleagues continue to reap the benefits of increased hybridity and other “forced habits” post-pandemic… Listen now!

                                        A huge thank you to our contributors for this episode! We love reflecting with our listeners! 


                                        Reflect on your PD with our tool:

                                        PDF Printout

                                        Interactive Quiz


                                        SAMR and Bloom’s Taxonomy: Assembling the Puzzle, Puentedura for Common Sense Media, 2014.


                                        #PostPandemic #ProfessionalDevelopment #CPD #CPL #ESL #EFL #ELT #ReflectiveTeaching #TeachEnglish #ReflectivePedagogy #ESL #EFL #Teaching #Education #LoveTeaching #GlobalELT #Teacher #English #LanguageLearning #ReflectivePractice


                                        Questions for reflection:

                                        • How has your approach to PD evolved since the pandemic? 

                                        • What “forced habits” have altered your PD for the better? 

                                        • What ideas in the episode podcast resonated most with your experience?


                                          • 22 min
                                        • E44 - Global citizenship: Opening the view to the possible (with Brantley Turner)

                                          “Global citizenship can happen in our back yard.” 🏠🌏 In this episode, Shey and Anna plunge head-first with guest Brantley Turner—East Asia Education Director for Dwight Schools—into what it means to cultivate a global mindset, how to teach it in a culturally responsive way, how to navigate the discomforts of a globally-minded worldview, and much more… Listen now! 

                                          Questions for reflection:

                                          • What does global citizenship mean to you? 

                                          • How do you infuse global citizenship into your curriculum?

                                            • 36 min

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                                          A podcast for reflective practice for teachers of English around the world