Advancing Learning Podcast

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With your co-hosts Will Rixon and Harry Waters, the Advancing Learning Podcast is a place for conversation, debate, idea-sharing and merry-making, all in the name of Advancing Learning in the wonderful world of ELT.

It accompanies the wider Advancing Learning Academic Programme from Macmillan Education, where you'll find a whole range of teacher training webinars, blog articles, resources and more at www.macmillanenglish.com/alap.

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S01 E14 Proactively Diminishing Bullying Part 2

Jul 05 2024 31 mins

For the second part of this conversation with the wonderful Donna Lee Fields, she probes Harry and Will on their own reactions to certain behaviour in the classroom.The 3 of them look at 2 scenarios and how might a teacher label them in order to decide on an appropriate response at the moment it happens.You might also want to know that if this episode is your 'cuppa', then you will

S01 E13 Becoming an ELT Author

Jun 21 2024 26 mins

Ethan Mansur, author of the recently published Ready For C2 joins Harry and Will on the metaphoric sofa, to discuss how he got into authoring (and others might do so) from being a teacher and teacher trainer. Hear from 3 differing perspectives on how a coursebook is written as well as some advice on how you might enter the world of publishing as an author!This episode is brought to

S01 E12 Pronunciation: Get Out of Your Head

Jun 07 2024 28 mins

Harry and Will are joined by Adrian Underhill, a true icon of pronunciation and a lifelong advocate for supporting our language learners with the relevant knowledge and skills to develop their own pronunciation.The conversation begins with a look a the why behind explicit teaching of pronunciation, quickly followed by how it should be taught, and importantly, how it should not be t

S01 E11 To C2 or not to C2

May 24 2024 31 mins

Elspeth Pollock (teacher training, assessment and exams extraordinaire) joins Will and Harry for a brilliant discussion about C2 proficiency. They look at the student that has ambitions to achieve a C2 level on paper, and also what it takes to be a teacher preparing students for that paper.This episode is brought to you by Ready For, a course that has been helping students prepare

S01 E10 Beyond the Classroom: Face-to-face Vs Online CPD

May 10 2024 26 mins

In this second part to the 'Beyond the Classroom' episodes, Harry and Will delve in the wheres, whys and hows of teaching and learning, focusing on the comparisons between face-to-face vs. online teacher training.What do you think? Does online teacher training's convenience compare to the social and collaborative nature of face-to-face training? Do you prefer a networking 3-4 days

S01 E09 Beyond the Classroom: Expanding Horizons in ELT

Apr 26 2024 30 mins

From their relatively unique perspectives within the wild world of ELT, Harry and Will discuss the life of a teacher outside the day-to-day of the language learning classroom.This episode looks at some ways teachers might explore to diversify where they take their career outside of the teaching profession itself. Looking at various roles within publishing, teacher training and also

S01 E08 Proactively Diminishing Bullying Part 1

Apr 05 2024 36 mins

In this standout episode with Harry and Will, we are joined by Donna Lee Fields to get her eye-opening perspective on reinforcing your students positively.This episode looks at so-called 'bullying', and specifically 3 scenarios and how a teacher might respond in order to foster both positive relationships and kind environments.You might also want to know that if this episode is you

S01 E07 Learning to Love Learning

Mar 22 2024 32 mins

This episode takes us right back to the origins of learning, with our special guests from Eltonix.com, Sea Steel and Sarah Smith.How can a teacher make the best of those natural urges we all had when we first tried to understand the world as babies? What skills can we build on that have already blossomed before they even set foot in a classroom?This session is sponsored by Curious

S01E06 What is Grammar's Role in the ELT Classroom?

Mar 08 2024 30 mins

With special guest David Spencer joining Harry and Will, listen as they dive into the role of grammar in a classroom of 2023, and if indeed, there is a wrong or right way of approaching grammar instruction.Flipped grammar classroom videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTApB9Jm5oIGateway to the World: https://www.macmillanenglish.com/catalogue/courses/teenagers/gateway-to-the-wor

S01E05 Representation is More Than a Photo

Feb 02 2024 30 mins

Is every household the same throughout the world? Does everyone look more or less the same? Do we all think in the same way, roughly? Of course not!In this very special episode, Harry Waters is joined by Tamires Gama, who shares her incredible insights into how a teacher can present the world as it truly is, in terms of the beautiful differences that can and should be represented i