TTELT: Teaching Tips for English Language Teachers

Join us to hear Rawan Saqfalhett, a secondary school teacher who teaches in Jericho in the West Bank in the Palestinian Territories, as she talks about the challenges she and her students face. Rawan gives some insights into how patience and understanding, and cultural programs can help the students succeed. Listen to hear more!

Join us to hear David Bozetarnik, from the Higher Colleges of Technology in the United Arab Emirates, as he shares best practices for promoting virtual reality at your school, college, or university. He talks about how he first got involved with virtual reality and how teachers can promote it to other teachers and get them interested in it. Listen to hear more!   #virtualreality #digitallearning #...

Join us to hear Majed Buledi, from the International Islamic University in Malaysia, as he shares best practices for pedagogical technological integration with digital natives. He identifies the steps involved in technological integration levels, and how such levels impact learners’ task engagement in a walled classroom through digital platforms. Listen to hear more!   #onlinelearning #digitallear...

Join us to hear Kamiya Abdulkhakimovar, Senior Lecturer at the College of Humanities and Education at KIMEP University in Kazakhstan, as she shares best practices for teaching online synchronous classes. She identifies the steps involved in the transition to synchronized online learning and assessed its effectiveness at KIMEP University.  Listen to hear more!    #onlinelearning  #sychronouslearnin...

Join us to hear Jessica March and Raja Mallek Baloul, English instructors from the Achievement Academy at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates as they share an exciting initiative to introduce students to the UNESCO 2022 Goals for Education for Sustainable Development.  The presenters will describe how they have collaborated across academic disciplines to redesign a highe...

Join us to hear Gulnoza Radjabova, an English teacher at Uzbekistan State World Languages University in Tashkent, as she shares different ways we can use corpus linguistics tools available on the internet to drive writing instruction.  She shares how she uses these tools with her own students to improve their writing.” Listen to hear more! Currently, I am doing research in the field of implementat...

Join us to hear Sweta Kumari and Aieshah Arif, Writing Instructors at New York University Abu Dhabi, as they share their thoughts on why there are lingering biases towards “standardized Englishes” from mainly “white” post-British colony countries, especially in academia, rather than accepting varieties of English from “non-white” post-British colony countries. They share some real anecdotes from t...

Join us to hear Mark Carver, Director of Postgraduate Research at the International Education Institute, University of St Andrews, Scotland as he shares why more teachers taking doctorates is good for our profession, but has risks of “qualification inflation.” He shares some barriers to bringing scholarly approaches into your classroom, and mitigating strategies for bringing these approaches into...

Join us to hear Hansley Cazeau, a U.S. English Language Fellow from Englewood, New Jersey, as he shares using ChatGPT in the classroom to motivate teachers and students. He explains how ChatGPT works and gives several examples of how teachers can use it in the classroom to teach students and what students can learn from using ChatGPT in the classroom. Listen to hear more! #ChatGPT #AI#artificial i...

Join us to hear Ruba Sadi, manager of Eduthink, a training and consultation center based in Jordan, as she shares her SEL, Social Emotional Learning, in the classroom to motivate teachers, students, and parents. She shares how teachers can shape students’ future personalities using SEL for future job, social, and life requirements. She also describes the five core competencies of SEL and explains...

Join us to hear Arpine Harutyunyan, a teacher at Luys Zvart Education Center, Armenia, share with us “Combining Language and Content for Tour Guides.” Harutyunyan describes a teaching approach relevant for an efficient combination of language and other skills into one course, discussing tips and tools for producing an effective incorporated course for future tour guides. The mastery of the English...

Join us to hear Shakhodat Obidova, A PhD student and TESOL Trainer at Bukhara State Pedagogical Institute in Uzbekistan, share with us “Effective Tips on Critical Reading for Secondary Teachers.” Shewill tell us what critical reading is and why it’s necessary in today’s world, what methods teachers can use to analyze reading texts effectively, and what her experience of training teachers for criti...

Join us to hear Mohamed Hasan, from Ahlia University in Bahrain, as he shares tips on Teacher Identity Investment Amidst Change in Education. He describes how teacher identity investment plays an important role in educational reform. However, it can easily be neglected if educational reformers focus primarily on achieving outcomes. He gives some tips on how building career capital can empower teac...

Join us to hear Judy Wren and Jennifer McCoy, English teachers in Oman at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, share with us “AI and ChatGPT: Considering the Future of Writing Instruction.” They will tell us what ChatGPT is and how it works, and what it means for academic integrity that students can actually ask ChatGPT to write essays for them even with typical English mistakes for their type/leve...

Join us to hear Mick King, an English teacher in Qatar at Qatar Community College, share with “Mitigating Student Motivations and Teacher Beliefs.” All too often teachers have fixed ideas about why students are learning a language but sometimes those ideas are not correct. Students can have different motivations and expectations than the teacher thinks. Mick asks us to consider making a teaching/l...

Join us to hear Rania Jabr, an English teacher in Egypt at the American University of Cairo, share with “Optimal Learning with Brain Breaks.” Jabr answers the question how brain breaks are essential for you and your students since they enhance teaching and learning, and they are an essential classroom management tool. Such teaching tools and techniques are used as a guide and motivate students to...

Join us to hear from Feruz Akbarov, founder of English Teacher Association of Uzbekistan , as he talks with us about fostering creativity in English teachers. Feruz discusses the 3Es, 3 staples, being an initiator, and active Continuing Professional Development. Join us to hear more!     Top Tips -creativity in the classroom -stimulating learners -creative lessons -taking initiative #teachingtips...

Join us to hear from Hannah Haase, Language Teacher, Author, and Pedagogical Mentor at Robotel, as she shares with us how to balance teaching with technology and teaching with traditional paper-based or classroom-based activities such as pair work. Technology is changing the way students learn and we need to find out how we can best use technology to motivate and differentiate. Join us to hear mor...

Join us to hear from Anna Ayrapetyan, from Russian- Armenian University and French University in Armenia, as she shares with us how to play intellectual games in the English classroom to stimulate 21st Century skills of Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity. In addition to developing these skills, students also develop concentration and collaboration while the competitive...

Join us to hear from Sara Dara, founder of Programmer Zone, Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates explain why we need coding in all school subjects, not just math and science. Coding can be used in other subjects to develop mini quizzes and information apps. Sara sheds light on how subjects can collaterally help students be more creative and also understand deeply. For example, a student who atte...

Join us to hear Khaleda Al Mansoori, a professor at the American University in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, as she shares her tips on using COIL projects in the classroom COIL stands for Collaborative Online International Learning. She discusses the students’ perceptions regarding the use of COIL projects and shares methods on how to better design these types of projects. Listen to hear m...

Join us to hear Pooja Sancheti, a teacher at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, as she shares her tips on using an active learning strategy used in a writing course for English for Academic Purposes. She describes how this specific technique allows students to undergo the cycle of analyzing and providing effective feedback using structured guidelines on the content scope of relevance and complexity....

Join us to hear Siham Al-Aamri, a teacher at the University of Nizwa, Oman, as she shares her tips on using Padlet to develop a community of practice and teachers’ professionalism. She describes how she used Padlet created a supportive environment and allowed her to give help where needed when training new teachers. She explains how she used Padlet for self-reflective Eportfolios. Listen to hear m...

Join us to hear Dr Lee McCallum, who recently became an Associate Tutor in Language Education at the University of Edinburgh, as she shares her thoughts on writing assessment literacy for teachers. She describes how important assessment is to students’ futures whether vocational or academic. She then goes on to suggest three ways that teachers can develop their assessment literacy. Listen to hear...

Join us to hear Seetha Saragan, a Personal Development Trainer and Lifestyle Consultant with a background in English and psychology, based in Dubai, as she shares how teachers can avoid favoritism and what the impact of favoritism is on students. She describes ways of doing class activities that build students’ confidence and make them become better members of the community. She also offers some s...