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How do you create a welcoming atmosphere for all students? 🌈 In this episode, guest Kim Carroll shares insights on how to make our classrooms safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ individuals worldwide.

📚Resources:


Webinar: Making Space for All: LGBTQ+ Awareness and Engagement in the English Language Classroom (RELO Andes)


Article: Exploring LGBT Lives and Issues in Adult ESOL (British Council)


Article: It’s Not in the Curriculum: Adult English Language Teachers and LGBQ Topics (Rhodes & Coda, 2017)


Padlet: Making Space for LGBTQ+ Students (Kim Carroll)



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We’re just recovering from our week in Tampa, Florida, for the TESOL 2024 Convention. And wow, what a week! 🌴 In this episode, we reflect on our experience, share snippets from other conference attendees, and take the pulse of the field of TESOL. Watch on YouTube or Spotify for the full effect! 🎥

⭐  Check out our Reflective Practice Starter Kit!

🤓 Read our blog post: Maximizing Your Conference Experience.

🎧 Further listening: 


E25 – Handling conflict in the classroom (with Joe Voigts)


E34 – Trauma-sensitive practices (with Sherry MacKay)


E48 – Bring your teaching alive with ChatGPT (with Jeff McIlvenna)


E51 – 2024 Friends of the Podcast: AI in ELT


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



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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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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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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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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:


Tell us your name, pronouns, and country.


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


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


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


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?



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 teacherthinkaloud@gmail.com.X | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube


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