TTELT: Teaching Tips for English Language Teachers

Join us to hear Fatia Jellad, a secondary school teacher in Tunisia who recently obtained her PhD in Cultural Studies, as she shares with us how to use blogs to motivate students to write in English. She discusses the steps for implementing blogs in the classroom and what makes them an effective tool for writing instruction. She also mentions some of the challenges teachers might face when implementing blogs as a motivational writing tool.  Listen to hear more!

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Join us to hear Kasia Truszkowsky, founder and owner of My Oxford English Academy in Oxford, England, as she shares with us how to use reconstruction tasks to teach academic writing. She discusses tips for minimizing teacher preparation time and sharing best practices for producing effective writing lessons.  Listen to hear more!

Join us to hear Rasha Halat, Assistant Professor at the Lebanese International University, as she shares with us how to use authentic materials to motivate students. She describes why its a good idea to use authentic materials and how to motivate students by using them.  Listen to hear more!

Join us to hear Shahab Moradkhani, Associate Professor of TESOL at Razi University in Kermanshah, Iran, as he shares with us the topic English as an International Language. He describes the basic principles of English as an International Language and shares suggestions for dealing with the related theoretical and practical controversies.  Listen to hear more!

Join us to hear Hannah Haase, language teacher, author, and pedagogical mentor at Robotel, as she shares with us how to motivate students to actually speak in English in class. She describes different ways teachers can do recording activities, kinesthetic activities, games focused on listening, and games focusing on speaking. Listen to hear more!

Join us to hear Gulnorakhon Niyazova, senior  teacher of English as EFL at Alisher Navai University of Uzbek Language and Literature in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, as she describes why it’s important for teachers to attend international conferences. She talks about how teacher can upgrade their teaching skills and get new ideas for different ways to teach.  Listen to hear more! 

Join us to hear Maria Zaheer, the founder of Educational Webinar Jam and a Senior Fellow in Higher Education, based at Al Yamama University in Saudi Arabia, as she shares best practices for optimizing teacher-to-teacher collaboration both within and across university departments. She describes how teacher-to-teacher collaboration proves to be an effective tool for professional development for educators.  Listen to hear more! 

Join us to hear Rawan Saqfalhett, a secondary school teacher who teaches in Jericho in the West Bank in the Palestinian Territories, as she talks about the challenges she and her students face. Rawan gives some insights into how patience and understanding, and cultural programs can help the students succeed. Listen to hear more!

Join us to hear David Bozetarnik, from the Higher Colleges of Technology in the United Arab Emirates, as he shares best practices for promoting virtual reality at your school, college, or university. He talks about how he first got involved with virtual reality and how teachers can promote it to other teachers and get them interested in it. Listen to hear more!

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Join us to hear Majed Buledi, from the International Islamic University in Malaysia, as he shares best practices for pedagogical technological integration with digital natives. He identifies the steps involved in technological integration levels, and how such levels impact learners’ task engagement in a walled classroom through digital platforms. Listen to hear more!

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Join us to hear Kamiya Abdulkhakimovar, Senior Lecturer at the College of Humanities and Education at KIMEP University in Kazakhstan, as she shares best practices for teaching online synchronous classes. She identifies the steps involved in the transition to synchronized online learning and assessed its effectiveness at KIMEP University.  Listen to hear more! 

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Join us to hear Jessica March and Raja Mallek Baloul, English instructors from the Achievement Academy at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates as they share an exciting initiative to introduce students to the UNESCO 2022 Goals for Education for Sustainable Development.  The presenters will describe how they have collaborated across academic disciplines to redesign a higher education language course which promotes the understanding of sustainable development. Listen to hear more!

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Join us to hear Gulnoza Radjabova, an English teacher at Uzbekistan State World Languages University in Tashkent, as she shares different ways we can use corpus linguistics tools available on the internet to drive writing instruction.  She shares how she uses these tools with her own students to improve their writing.” Listen to hear more!

Currently, I am doing research in the field of implementation of corpus technologies in teaching English. This research field is totally new in our country; therefore, it is considered to be highly topical.  I think that this area of research will develop communicative competence of students enhancing academic excellence of learners and developing education system of Uzbekistan.

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Join us to hear Sweta Kumari and Aieshah Arif, Writing Instructors at New York University Abu Dhabi, as they share their thoughts on why there are lingering biases towards “standardized Englishes” from mainly “white” post-British colony countries, especially in academia, rather than accepting varieties of English from “non-white” post-British colony countries. They share some real anecdotes from their teaching context illustrating occurrences of this bias, and talk about how this bias can affect individual learners negatively. Listen to hear more!

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Join us to hear Mark Carver, Director of Postgraduate Research at the International Education Institute, University of St Andrews, Scotland as he shares why more teachers taking doctorates is good for our profession, but has risks of “qualification inflation.” He shares some barriers to bringing scholarly approaches into your classroom, and mitigating strategies for bringing these approaches into our classroom and explains alternative ways to think about impact and “doctorateness.” Listen to hear more! #doctorate #qualificationinflation #self-awareness #self-management #teachingtips #tesol #esl#elt#tesolteaching #education #teachertraining #edtech #digitaltools#CPD#ContinuingProfessionalDevelopment

Join us to hear Hansley Cazeau, a U.S. English Language Fellow from Englewood, New Jersey, as he shares using ChatGPT in the classroom to motivate teachers and students. He explains how ChatGPT works and gives several examples of how teachers can use it in the classroom to teach students and what students can learn from using ChatGPT in the classroom. Listen to hear more! #ChatGPT #AI#artificial intelligence #teachingtips #tesol #esl#elt#tesolteaching #education #teachertraining #edtech #digitaltools#CPD#ContinuingProfessionalDevelopment

Join us to hear Ruba Sadi, manager of Eduthink, a training and consultation center based in Jordan, as she shares her SEL, Social Emotional Learning, in the classroom to motivate teachers, students, and parents. She shares how teachers can shape students’ future personalities using SEL for future job, social, and life requirements.She also describes the five core competencies of SEL and explains how teachers can easily incorporate them into their classes. Listen to hear more! #SEL #SocialEmotionalLearning #Self-Awareness #Self-Management #teachingtips #tesol #esl#elt#tesolteaching #education #teachertraining #edtech #digitaltools#CPD#ContinuingProfessionalDevelopment

Join us to hear Arpine Harutyunyan, a teacher at Luys Zvart Education Center, Armenia, share with us “Combining Language and Content for Tour Guides.” Harutyunyan describes a teaching approach relevant for an efficient combination of language and other skills into one course, discussing tips and tools for producing an effective incorporated course for future tour guides. The mastery of the English language is significantly important for people working in the tourist industry, and especially tour guides, due to their constant contact with foreign tourists. In fact, they need to master not only General English, but also English for Specific Purposes, basic communication, cross-cultural communication as well as leadership skills, and be aware of the tourist resources of their country. Thus, teachers and educators need to meet the challenge of creating a curriculum that will incorporate the instruction of the above-mentioned variety of skills. A viable solution can be the Content-Based Instruction (CBI) approach. Join us to hear more! Top Tips -CLIL -Content and Language Integrated Learning -English for Tourism -Cross-Cultural Communication #teachingtips#tesol#esl#elt#tesolteaching#education#innovation#creativity#communication#CPD

Join us to hear Shakhodat Obidova, A PhD student and TESOL Trainer at Bukhara State Pedagogical Institute in Uzbekistan, share with us “Effective Tips on Critical Reading for Secondary Teachers.” Shewill tell us what critical reading is and why it’s necessary in today’s world, what methods teachers can use to analyze reading texts effectively, and what her experience of training teachers for critical reading classes has been. Join us to hear more! Top Tips -Critical Reading -Reading -ESL Reading -critical analysis

Join us to hear Mohamed Hasan, from Ahlia University in Bahrain, as he shares tips on Teacher Identity Investment Amidst Change in Education. He describes how teacher identity investment plays an important role in educational reform. However, it can easily be neglected if educational reformers focus primarily on achieving outcomes. He gives some tips on how building career capital can empower teachers and increase their value. Listen to hear more!

Top Tips

-teacher identity

-educational reform

-investment

-career capital

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Join us to hear Judy Wren and Jennifer McCoy, English teachers in Oman at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, share with us “AI and ChatGPT: Considering the Future of Writing Instruction.” They will tell us what ChatGPT is and how it works, and what it means for academic integrity that students can actually ask ChatGPT to write essays for them even with typical English mistakes for their type/level of learner. They discuss how they see ChatGPT and AI generative writing impacting the field of English language teaching and offer some suggestions for dealing with the new technology. Join us to hear more! 

Top Tips

-ChatGPT

-artificial intelligence

-plagiarism

-academic integrity

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Join us to hear Mick King, an English teacher in Qatar at Qatar Community College, share with “Mitigating Student Motivations and Teacher Beliefs.” All too often teachers have fixed ideas about why students are learning a language but sometimes those ideas are not correct. Students can have different motivations and expectations than the teacher thinks. Mick asks us to consider making a teaching/learning contract with students at the beginning of the semester to discover why students are taking your class and what they really want to get out of it. Join us to hear more! Top Tips -teacher beliefs -student motivation -motivating learning -afternoon/night students #teachingtips#tesol#esl#elt#tesolteaching#education#innovation#creativity#communication#CPD

Join us to hear Rania Jabr, an English teacher in Egypt at the American University of Cairo, share with “Optimal Learning with Brain Breaks.” Jabr answers the question how brain breaks are essential for you and your students since they enhance teaching and learning, and they are an essential classroom management tool. Such teaching tools and techniques are used as a guide and motivate students to enable them later on to complete assigned work. They help shape student expectations, guide them, and ensure they later on complete their work to the satisfaction of their teacher. Join us to hear more!! Top Tips -brain breaks -motivate learners -maximize retention -afternoon/night students #teachingtips#tesol#esl#elt#tesolteaching#education#innovation#creativity#communication#CPD

Join us to hear from Feruz Akbarov, founder of English Teacher Association of Uzbekistan , as he talks with us about fostering creativity in English teachers. Feruz discusses the 3Es, 3 staples, being an initiator, and active Continuing Professional Development. Join us to hear more!  

Top Tips

-creativity in the classroom

-stimulating learners

-creative lessons

-taking initiative

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Join us to hear from Hannah Haase, Language Teacher, Author, and Pedagogical Mentor at Robotel, as she shares with us how to balance teaching with technology and teaching with traditional paper-based or classroom-based activities such as pair work. Technology is changing the way students learn and we need to find out how we can best use technology to motivate and differentiate. Join us to hear more!  

Top Tips

-technology in the classroom

-finding the right balance

-curriculum platforms

-collaboration and creativity

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Join us to hear from Anna Ayrapetyan, from Russian- Armenian University and French University in Armenia, as she shares with us how to play intellectual games in the English classroom to stimulate 21st Century skills of Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity. In addition to developing these skills, students also develop concentration and collaboration while the competitive element stimulates interest and motivation. Join us to hear more!  

Top Tips

-intellectual games stimulate creativity

-student motivation increases

-students love competitions

-student learn collaboration

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Join us to hear from Sara Dara, founder of Programmer Zone, Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates explain why we need coding in all school subjects, not just math and science. Coding can be used in other subjects to develop mini quizzes and information apps. Sara sheds light on how subjects can collaterally help students be more creative and also understand deeply. For example, a student who attends python lessons can develop a program for English vocab. Join us to hear more!  

Top Tips

-use coding in our daily lives

-learn 21st Century skills

-problem solving

-start young

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Join us to hear Khaleda Al Mansoori, a professor at the American University in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, as she shares her tips on using COIL projects in the classroom COIL stands for Collaborative Online International Learning. She discusses the students’ perceptions regarding the use of COIL projects and shares methods on how to better design these types of projects. Listen to hear more!

Join us to hear Pooja Sancheti, a teacher at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, as she shares her tips on using an active learning strategy used in a writing course for English for Academic Purposes. She describes how this specific technique allows students to undergo the cycle of analyzing and providing effective feedback using structured guidelines on the content scope of relevance and complexity. Listen to hear more!

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-active learning

-self-management

-critical analysis

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Join us to hear Siham Al-Aamri, a teacher at the University of Nizwa, Oman, as she shares her tips on using Padlet to develop a community of practice and teachers’ professionalism. She describes how she used Padlet created a supportive environment and allowed her to give help where needed when training new teachers. She explains how she used Padlet for self-reflective Eportfolios. Listen to hear more!

Top Tips

-teacher training

-digital tools

-eportfolios

-self-reflection

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Join us to hear Dr Lee McCallum, who recently became an Associate Tutor in Language Education at the University of Edinburgh, as she shares her thoughts on writing assessment literacy for teachers. She describes how important assessment is to students’ futures whether vocational or academic. She then goes on to suggest three ways that teachers can develop their assessment literacy. Listen to hear more!

Top Tips

-assessment literacy

-writing

-writing assessment

-students

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Join us to hear Seetha Saragan, a Personal Development Trainer and Lifestyle Consultant with a background in English and psychology, based in Dubai, as she shares how teachers can avoid favoritism and what the impact of favoritism is on students. She describes ways of doing class activities that build students’ confidence and make them become better members of the community. She also offers some simple ideas that teachers can use to encourage team work and cultural understanding. Listen to hear more!

 Top Tips

-avoiding favoritism

-positive psychology

-self-esteem

-global citizens

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Join us to hear Marwa Mekni Toujani and Oshin Danish, English teachers based in Saudi Arabia, who share with us their study on an Analysis of English Articles in Saudi English. They give tips for developing a data collection tool eliciting article usage and describe how they analyzed the data to find patterns of usage. This is an interesting article for any teachers interested in doing research and learning about global varieties of English.  Join us to hear more!

Top Tips

-emergence of Saudi English variety

-checking article use in this variety

-article misuse

-quantitative research

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Join us to hear Nguyen Thanh Binh, an English teacher in Vietnam, share with us techniques for “Learning English via Social Networking”. Listen to tips for using social media with your students to help them practice their English. Identifying interesting topics such as news, politics, and sports is the first step. Following fan pages and forum pages of sports figures is the second step. Then students can use conscious learning for all 4 skills.  Join us to hear more!

Top Tips

-identify student interests

-increase motivation

-learn consciously

-practice all four skills

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