I’m a bit behind with the October digest as we’re already eight days into November…hopefully that’ll mean less to do next month!
We had a couple of fabulously practical webinars last month, with Rachel Tsateri talking about eclectic planning and teaching and Dylan Gates sharing ideas for doing more with less in Speaking Unplugged. As always, there were insightful comments to our Wednesday Questions:
- What’s one of your all-time favourite activities?
- How do you manage behaviour?
- Do you separate the professional and personal on social media?
- Is teaching a science or an art?
- How do you make learners comfortable in the classroom?
Lots of quality content from Hubsters too, as always! There are a couple of things which have now passed, but keep an eye on future opportunities….for example, Melissa shared an opportunity to join the MEXTESOL Journal team and Rachael ran a fabulous 5-day LinkedIn visibility challenge – you might have seen some posts from folks involved! Ciarán also shared an awesome list of webinars in October and November.
We had resources from Silvina on quiet quitting, ideas for incorporating STEM from Elen, Halloween activities from Charlie’s Lessons, storytelling with Bhavna and Robert shared the next issue of The University Grapevine.
There was some chat around financial stability in our profession thanks to a post from The Chilled Investor, Nicola. Jane shared a link to a Russell Stannard video on using Wordwall and we had a question from Stephanie on resources for a learner who works in project management. There was also an article from Jo on dealing with stressful situations.
Erin from Everything EFL Podcast was busy this month, speaking about lexicalising grammar, posing questions on setting boundaries, how to put yourself first and feeling under pressure, making mistakes as a teacher, advice for new teachers, making the most of context in a lesson and sharing ideas for using audioscripts.