Happy December everyone and time for a round-up of what happened in the Hub last month. We had a couple of really interesting webinars on very important topics: Sandra Borg and Jill Hodgetts joined us to talk about TEFL Community Care, a mental health initiative and later in the month, Courtney Bailey came along to discuss how L1 teachers can advocate for L2+ teachers.
The Wednesday Questions sparked some thought-provoking comments as well:
- Is it more difficult to build rapport online?
- How do you bring current affairs into the classroom?
- How do you work on listening skills in the classroom?
- What’s the ideal class length?
And Hubsters were busy as always, sharing tips and asking questions 
Vicky shared an interesting reflection on meaningful feedback, Nicola asked about summer school work when you have children, Dani was looking for tips on setting up virtual assessments of in-person classes, Karen started a great thread on learning for assessment and there was lots of community support from one member who was struggling and in need of some advice. There were also lots of great resources: Silvina had a lesson plan on insects as the food of the future, Bhavna shared another lovely story, there were some suggestions on lesson plans for Thanksgiving, and the University Grapevine had ideas on seating plans.
Annie shared details of the International TESOL Associations online conference, which sounded like a great event, and Kate was looking for people to get involved in an online event to raise money for Ukraine. Fiona shared a link to the ELT Publishing Professionals survey of editorial rates too.