Pedagotech For English Teachers with Marcelo Hosannah

When the coursebook your school hands you can’t actually get students where the school promises they’ll go, the fix isn’t patching the book with extra activities — it’s flipping the order of planning altogether. In this episode, I talk about a student who froze up, afraid to even speak English out loud, and how that moment pushed me to drop the coursebook’s logic and build my own trajectory around...

A teacher who had never written a line of code built three digital games in two weeks — and changed her students’ relationship with content in ways no textbook activity could. In this episode, EFL teacher and instructional coach Marcelo Hosannah unpacks what happened in a coaching cycle that started with an underpopulated class and ended with a question about what remains irreplaceable in teaching...

A teacher I work with described her relationship with AI tools in two words: awe and despair. She wasn’t resistant. She wasn’t technophobic. She was genuinely fascinated — and completely overwhelmed. At the same time. I understood exactly what she meant. And then I realized my response to her had answered the practical question on the surface while leaving the deeper one untouched. She wasn’t aski...

Pedagotech For English Teachers - Season 1 Episode 5 In 2006, my first salary as an English teacher was the equivalent of about six dollars an hour. Last week, I found out that one of the most respected language schools in my city is currently offering new teachers around seven dollars. One dollar difference over twenty years — and that dollar buys less today than the six did back then. This episo...

Mixed proficiency classrooms are one of the most common sources of frustration for high school English teachers — especially in exam-driven contexts. But what if the real issue isn’t the variation in your students’ levels? What if it’s the model of instruction we keep using to try to contain it? In this episode, we discuss why the “average learner” assumption breaks down, what second language acqu...

In this episode, we dive into a hard truth facing English teachers today: the “tried and true” methods of the past are no longer holding up. It’s not just about the rise of AI; it’s about the sudden realization that the assignments we relied on for years might have lost their meaning. “The anxiety isn’t really about AI. It’s about feeling that something we relied on, something that looked like lea...

In this workshop, I walk you through the exact thinking and design moves I used while coaching a colleague whose students were quietly disengaged — not resistant, not unmotivated, just cognitively disconnected. You’ll see how small shifts in task framing , lesson flow , and output design can dramatically change how students engage with reading, listening, and storytelling tasks in ELT and ELA clas...

Why do students disengage during English lessons — even when the material is interesting? In this episode, Marcelo breaks down the real reasons behind low engagement and passive learning in ELT/ELL classrooms, and how teachers can redesign lessons to boost thinking, participation, and language production. You’ll learn: * the hidden cognitive causes of student disengagement * how lesson flow affect...

Planning a task-based lesson doesn’t have to be complicated — but it does require a shift in how we think about classroom time and language learning. In this workshop, we’ll explore a simple, practical structure to design lessons that focus on real communication, purposeful tasks, and meaningful language use . You’ll learn how to plan each stage of the Task-Based Learning (TBL) framework: 1️⃣ Pre-...

Hi, everyone! We’re kicking off Pedagotech for English Teachers with Marcelo Hosannah with a topic that cuts deep for almost every educator I know: the confidence crisis . It’s that quiet voice that whispers, “You’re not good enough.” That moment of doubt before trying something new in class. That pang of insecurity when someone praises your work and you secretly think, “If only they knew how much...

Welcome to Pedagotech for English Teachers — a space for reflection, practical ideas, and thoughtful conversations about teaching English in a connected world. Hosted by Marcelo Hosannah , an instructional coach and Google for Education Trainer, this podcast explores the intersection of Pedagogy , Technology , and English Language Teaching . In this trailer episode, Marcelo shares what inspired Pe...