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Advancing Learning Podcast
Macmillan Education
31 episodes
4 months ago
Do you teach critical thinking skills in your classroom? How do you go about it? And why do you feel the need to teach them? The unstoppable Chia Suan Chong at long last joins the Advancing Learning Podcast to discuss what forms critical thinking takes, and how it can be addressed in all its many shapes and forms in today's world. Equip yourself and your students with the skills they need to succeed at university and beyond. Go straight to Macmillan Education’s website and download a Scientif...
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Do you teach critical thinking skills in your classroom? How do you go about it? And why do you feel the need to teach them? The unstoppable Chia Suan Chong at long last joins the Advancing Learning Podcast to discuss what forms critical thinking takes, and how it can be addressed in all its many shapes and forms in today's world. Equip yourself and your students with the skills they need to succeed at university and beyond. Go straight to Macmillan Education’s website and download a Scientif...
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Advancing Learning Podcast
S02 E14 Critical Thinking in Language Education
Do you teach critical thinking skills in your classroom? How do you go about it? And why do you feel the need to teach them? The unstoppable Chia Suan Chong at long last joins the Advancing Learning Podcast to discuss what forms critical thinking takes, and how it can be addressed in all its many shapes and forms in today's world. Equip yourself and your students with the skills they need to succeed at university and beyond. Go straight to Macmillan Education’s website and download a Scientif...
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4 months ago
27 minutes

Advancing Learning Podcast
S02 E13 Neurodiversity Questions Answered - ADHD
ADHD expert, Vicky Allan, joins Will and Harry on an episode getting into depth on ADHD, how teachers can identify it, what is actually is (and isn't), and how you can create a learning environment that includes all students present. This is the final part of 3 episodes where we'll be focusing on neurodiversity and the burning questions you had during the festival we just didn't have time for! Check out Macmillan Education's Advancing Learning for Everyone website that offers a wide range of ...
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4 months ago
24 minutes

Advancing Learning Podcast
S02 E12 Neurodiversity Questions Answered - Dyslexia
World-renowned dyslexia expert Boelo van der Pool joins Will and Harry to share his responses to the enormous number of questions we received about supporting students with dyslexia during the Global Teachers' Festival. This is part 2 of 3 episodes where we'll be focusing on neurodiversity and the burning questions you had during the festival we just didn't have time for! Check out Macmillan Education's Advancing Learning for Everyone website that offers a wide range of resources to help teac...
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5 months ago
29 minutes

Advancing Learning Podcast
S02 E11 Neurodiversity Questions Answered - Autism
The wonderfully talented and experienced Claire Hart joins Will and Harry to answer some of the questions you all asked throughout the Global Teachers' Festival around neurodiversity, more specifically, about supporting learners with autism. This is part 1 of 3 episodes where we'll be focusing on neurodiversity and the burning questions you had during the festival we just didn't have time for! Check out Macmillan Education's Advancing Learning for Everyone website that offers a wide range of ...
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5 months ago
30 minutes

Advancing Learning Podcast
S02 E10 Using Plays to Explore Language and Emotion
Jody Medland joins Will to share his unique experience using manucripts from plays to allow students to explore them linguistically and also the motivations behind the lines, and therefore, the emotions their character is feeling. Listen as Jody explains his truly awe-inspiring technique to help our learners feel more open and helping teachers get one step closer to an inclusive and open learning environment. Check out Macmillan Education's Advancing Learning for Everyone website that offers ...
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6 months ago
27 minutes

Advancing Learning Podcast
S02 E09 Mindfulness and Its Journey to the Classroom
Mindful learning and mindful practices are gradually becoming a staple of an effective and efficient learning environment. Why has it become so important? Where did it's journey to education start? And why should all teachers be aware of ways to use it to their pedagogical advantage in the classroom? Emma Reynolds tells Harry and Will all in this episode about the history, both ancient and modern, of mindfulness, and how it's landed in our classrooms.
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7 months ago
26 minutes

Advancing Learning Podcast
S02 E08 The Autonomous Teenager: Key Ingredients
What does it take for a teenager to be in control of their learning? Is it the subject matter? The pedagogy behind the content? Or is it a simple matter of having a good relationship with the teacher? Karolina Kotorowicz-Jasińska proposes exactly this in an episode digging deep into how and why to tune-in to teenagers to help them get the most out of learning (despite themselves, in some cases). Brought to you by Macmillan Education's brand new exam preparation course for teens, Optimise Star...
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7 months ago
26 minutes

Advancing Learning Podcast
S02 E07 Results are in!: Teen Emotions Survey Roundtable
Alicja Gałązka picks apart your responses to questions we posed to you in a recent survey aiming to find out more about your experience of teenagers' emotions when they reach teenagehood and how they manifest during learning. What are the most common 'big emotions' your notice in your classroom? What strategies do you use to ensure all students feel included and valued in your classroom? This episode is generously brought you by Find Your Voice. Learn more about this 4-level British English s...
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8 months ago
30 minutes

Advancing Learning Podcast
S02 E06 Making Learning Meaningful to Engage Your Learners
Monica Rodriguez Salvo joins Will and Harry to delve deep into making learning as relevant as possible to make the absolute best of the time you have with your learners. They discuss if you tap into a student's agency and the things they advocate for, you can find a true purpose for their learning within their own world. The content with which you teach can be based on this information, in order to make a truly engaging and productive learning environment.
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8 months ago
27 minutes

Advancing Learning Podcast
S02 E05 Learning Grammar in L1 vs. L2
Anna Parr-Modrzejewska joins Harry and Will in an episode that digs deep into how grammar is taught in a whole variety of circumstances, from L1 to L2, from implicit to explicit instruction, and from younger to more mature learners.What's your opinion on how grammar should be taught?Do you look forward to teaching it, or avoid it wherever possible?This episode is generously brought you by Academy Stars 2nd edition. Learn more about this 7-level British English primary course from Macmillan Ed...
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9 months ago
31 minutes

Advancing Learning Podcast
S02 E04 What's the Point of Assessment?
Pere Cortiella Ibàñez and Will Rixon pull apart the true purpose of assessment why it's regarded in the way it is by all its players: the teacher, the student, the parent, the institution and the government.What is the true purpose of assessment?How does it help the student?How might the process of assessing be improved from all the aforementioned perspectives?
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9 months ago
30 minutes

Advancing Learning Podcast
S02 E03 Good results should reflect good learning
The third episode of the Advancing Learning Pod brings Claudia Rey into the fray (rhyming intended). Claudia sets Harry and Will on the straight and narrow with what's important when preparing learners for exams.I'll give you a clue...it's not repeatedly offering exam practice tasks. It starts with 'fee' and ends with 'dback'.This episode is brought to you by Macmillan Education's course for young learners, Learning Well. Learn all about it here:https://www.macmillanenglish.com/learningwell&n...
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10 months ago
28 minutes

Advancing Learning Podcast
S02 E02 Inclusivity, We All Matter
Do you feel your classroom is inclusive? To what extent? What does 'inclusive' mean to you?Sarah Hillyard joins Will and Harry to discuss the multitude of meanings of 'inclusion' and how this might be achieved in the English language learning environment. This episode is sponsored by Share with Friends, an engaging 7-level primary course that empowers children to speak confidently in English while fostering respect, inclusion, and empathy. Find out more here: http://bit.ly/3ZDyyx2
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11 months ago
27 minutes

Advancing Learning Podcast
S02 E01 Curiosity, Classrooms and Beavers
To kick-off the second season of Macmillan Education's Advancing Learning Podcast, Will and Harry are joined by the Eltonix pair, Sea Steele and Sarah Smith to discuss what curiosity is, how brains work when they're curious and how it can be leveraged as one of the most crucial elements to make learning productive.Learn more about Curious Kids here: https://www.macmillanenglish.com/catalogue/courses/young-learners/curious-kids/course-information
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11 months ago
28 minutes

Advancing Learning Podcast
S01 E16 SDGs: An Infinite Classroom Resource
Harry is joined by Marcela Villan to explore a whole range of classroom ideas that you can use to help your learners to explore the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals in class.Bookmark this session to keep these ideas in your back pocket for future lesson planning and let's make sure we include our learners in making a positive impact on the environment in how they live and behave.
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1 year ago
29 minutes

Advancing Learning Podcast
S01E15 Instagram, Tik-tok & Short-form Content
Claire Bowes, with more than 1.5 million followers across her Instagram and Tik-tok profiles, Englii, joins Will and Harry (not the Princes, the other two) discussing some best practices for getting heard amongst the social media din!They take a closer look at how teachers can get started if your thinking about creating more student-facing English language content for social media, specifically Instagram and Tik-tok.
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1 year ago
31 minutes

Advancing Learning Podcast
S01 E14 Proactively Diminishing Bullying Part 2
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 almost certainly be interested in Learning Well, an English language course with well-being at its heart. Check ...
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1 year ago
31 minutes

Advancing Learning Podcast
S01 E13 Becoming an ELT Author
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 you by the Ready For series, which has just released the aforementioned C2 level, which you can check...
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1 year ago
26 minutes

Advancing Learning Podcast
S01 E12 Pronunciation: Get Out of Your Head
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 taught for the learners to genuinely and comprehensively improve their intelligibility.
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1 year ago
28 minutes

Advancing Learning Podcast
S01 E11 To C2 or not to C2
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 for their exams for over twenty years! The brand-new READY FOR C2 Proficiency level is the latest in the series a...
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1 year ago
31 minutes

Advancing Learning Podcast
Do you teach critical thinking skills in your classroom? How do you go about it? And why do you feel the need to teach them? The unstoppable Chia Suan Chong at long last joins the Advancing Learning Podcast to discuss what forms critical thinking takes, and how it can be addressed in all its many shapes and forms in today's world. Equip yourself and your students with the skills they need to succeed at university and beyond. Go straight to Macmillan Education’s website and download a Scientif...