ELT Buzz News Report May 30th

All the "buzz" in English language teaching

May 30, 2023

Dear Teachers,

Here is this week’s report.

This week, my tip is this reflection - Schooling In The Age Of AI, by a teacher. Truly thoughtful, thought filled and worth your time. Also, see this Edutopia post, nice reminder about the importance of focusing on listening skills.

David
Buzzer-in-Chief, ELT Buzz

Values & Beliefs

Our newsletter inspires teachers to make lessons on topics dealing with our values and beliefs, offering many ideas and possible lesson activities.
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Teacher Travail

Fabio Slesio looks into the issue of teacher precarity and in particular the low pay and burdensome lesson planning requirements. Read more ...

A Better Way?

Jedrek Stepien shares his slides from Innovate ELT and argues for a less linear, more meaning focused approach on the part of English language teachers. Read more ...

Supporting Subject Knowledge

The Cult of Pedagogy writes about the common problem of assuming ELLs are fluent enough in English to thrive in the regular classroom when often, they are not. Read more ...

Classroom Habits

Tim Warre shares some thoughts and the slides of his recent presentation at Innovate ELT. Its aim was to try to adapt the framework for habit formation outlined in James Clear’s Atomic Habits to language learning. Read more ...

Video Lessons. Tina Turner. Simply The Best

She may be gone but she’ll never be forgotten. Students learn about her inspiring life of struggle and triumph and discuss her legacy.