Episode Summary Technology has increasingly become an integral part of teaching. Honestly, I cannot imagine teaching a lesson without it. Of course, I would if I needed to and I would have to adapt. It just makes things so much faster and easier. Pulling up an image to complement the topic. Checking the correct MLA…
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Episode Summary When it comes to teaching English learners, some things come naturally for EL teachers, while regular education teachers might be wondering how they can reach their multilingual students. I have several episodes about teaching all ELs, but I wanted to distill this information into even more practical and really actionable advice that all
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Episode Summary I don’t know about you, but every year around April, I feel like my energy is drained. I can no longer focus, and the feeling of inadequacy begins to creep in. It seems like we have taught as much as we could. The students have absorbed as much as they could. We all
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Episode Summary In education, hard skills such as the academic knowledge of the subject and the know-how of teaching in general, the strategies, the methodology, the assessment are the focal point. But today, I wanted to talk about the soft skills that are much more difficult to define and quantify because they are less concrete,
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Episode Summary Welcome back to another episode of The ESL Teaching Podcast. Today we’re tackling an issue that’s close to the heart for so many of us educators: the challenge of negative self-talk. As teachers, we navigate not only academic pressures but also the emotional and mental weight of our personal lives. Recognizing our humanity
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Episode Summary Welcome to Episode 108 of The ESL Teaching Podcast! In this episode, I share my go-to activities for those “I can’t even” days, when exhaustion and lack of inspiration make lesson planning a struggle. I candidly discuss my own experiences with feeling tired and bored while teaching, and offer practical, low-prep activities to
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