TTELT: Teaching Tips for English Language Teachers

This week on TTELT, we are bringing back Laura Connor to tell us her best teaching tips for writing.  We think these tips will help you with your students.   To learn more from Laura go to:  http://ellseelearning.weebly.com/  lconnor416@gmail.com    TTELT is a program of the Rhoades Education Foundation.  The Rhoades Education Foundation creates, trains, and advo...

This week on TTELT, Wendy Coulson tells us how she uses songs and rhymes with young learners.  She also explains how she uses them with adults.   To attend Wendy's TTELT workshop on March 21, 1am EST, register on the Events page at ttelt.org   To learn more from Wendy, check out these links:  RELO Andes - Early Reading and Writing with Young Learners: https://www.youtube.com/wa...

This week on TTELT, Aileen interviewed Daniela Hasa who is a professor in Albania.  Daniela provides great teaching tips on how to use technology in low resource areas.     Join us for Daniela's workshop where she will give you hands on experience in using technology with your students.   To register for Daniela's workshop and all TTELT events, go to our events page at: ht...

This week on TTELT we are learning some quick tips on how to use Quizizz.  Quizizz is a great way to engage your students in the classroom.  If you haven't tried it yet, hopefully you will after this episode!   Here  is the link to the Quizizz Challenge: https://quizizz.com/join?gc=24787884  Put your score in the comments!   Using Quizizz in the Classroom is the topic of this month's TTELT Worksho...

This week we are learning more from Matthew Jellick.  He's talking about why and how he does informal assessment with his students.   To find out more about Matthew, you can find him here:    Email: mjellick@gmail.com     Twitter: @mjellick    Blog: matthewjellick.wordpress.com   To register for upcoming TTELT events, go to:  https://www.ttelt...

This week on TTELT we are talking with @thekyrasage about how she uses Notion with her students.   To find out more about Kyra's projects, go to https://www.languagehack.co/ You can also follow her on instagram @thekyrasage or on Linkedin   To register for Kyra's workshop and all other TTELT events, go to: https://www.ttelt.org/p/workshops/  Please go to https://www.patreon.com/ttel...

This week we are interviewing the newest member of the TTELT team-- Aileen Hale.  She's going to give us some of her top tips for using music with her students.  To register for her workshop on Friday, February 26 at 4pm EST, go to: https://www.ttelt.org/p/workshops/ These are the resources she discusses in the episode:  https://americanenglish.state.gov/resources/sing-out-loud-trad...

This week on TTELT, we are learning how to use Lyricstraining with our students.  If you don't already have an account, sign up for a free account at https://lyricstraining.com    Here is the link to the Lyricstraining Challenge: https://lyng.me/UYNA9pBOAY?Xmu/c!genausc  During this episode, we also talked about TTELT Talks, a discussion group where English language teachers ca...

This week on TTELT, we are learning about online teaching tips from Matthew and Bryant.  These are portions of their previous interviews that we didn't have time to show.  Hope you enjoy these awesome teaching tips!   Don't forget to sign up for our upcoming workshhops at: https://www.ttelt.org/p/workshops/  To donate to TTELT, please go to: https://www.patreon.com/ttelt ...

This week on TTELT , Amy Chastain tells us about Story Stitch.   Find out more about Story Stitch at Green Card Voices: https://www.greencardvoices.org/   Find Amy and learn more about Intercultural Communication and upcoming Story Stitch Experiences on HubICL: https://hubicl.org/    To participate in the  World Canvas Symposium   Attend Amy’s Story Stitch PCI at Virt...

This week on TTELT, Joel Alvarez tells us his tips for motivating and empowering his students.  To learn more from Joel, you can find him at: https://www.facebook.com/ LETSpanama http://www.lets.com.pa/ info@lets.com.pa @lets_panama   To sign up for Joel's webinar and other TTELT events, go to: https://www.ttelt.org/p/workshops/ During the episode, we discuss:  American English Webs...

This week, Khetam Dahi talks about why and how she started an ESL Club for her studets and gives great tips on how you can start your own English or ESL club, as well as project ideas once your club is started.   To contact Khetam, please go to: Dahik@elac.edu   http://www.khetamdahi.com/ To find out more about what's happening at the ELAC ESL Club go to: https://www.facebook.com/eslclub...

This week on TTELT, we are talking about how to create speaking teams on Whatsapp.  I've done this activity a few times with my students with great results.   To sign up for the TTELT workshops on Dec 10-12: Whatsapp in the Classroom, go to https://www.ttelt.org/p/workshops/ This week we also have workshops from Beth Trudell and Armen Kassabian: Student Engagement Tips with Beth Trudell December 4...

This week on TTELT, Laura Connor gives us some great vocabulary teaching tips. To learn more from Laura go to: http://ellseelearning.weebly.com/ lconnor416@gmail.com Websites she discussed: https://www.flocabulary.com/ https://www.vocabulary.com/ https://scattergoriesonline.net/ Heads Up in the app store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wb.headsup&hl=en_AU This Giving Tuesday...

This week on TTELT, Matthew Jellick shares his tips for managing the classroom.   To find out more about Matthew, you can find him here:  Email: mjellick@gmail.com   Twitter: @mjellick  Blog: matthewjellick.wordpress.com  To register for his workshop on Teaching Multi-Level Classes, register at https://www.ttelt.org/p/workshops/   Please go to https://www.patreon.com/...

This week on TTELT Armen Kassabain teaches us his tips for using Padlets in his classroom. Armen's YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIaFeoJhpxQbulrR9T7JM9g/videos  Get ready for Armen's workshop on December 5 at 2pm UTC!  Sign up for TTELT Workshops on our webpage: https://www.ttelt.org/p/workshops/  If you have a teaching tip you'd like to share, a journal article o...

This week on TTELT, learn some quick and easy teaching tips for Quizlets. Learn how to search for and edit quizlet sets as well as learn about the many upcoming TTELT workshops.   To stay up tp date on all of the TTELT workshops and sign up to participate, go to the Workshop page on TTELT.org.   Link to Quizlet challenge: https://quizlet.com/543645384/match?i...   Upcoming workshops...

This week on TTELT, we talk with Beth Trudell about student engagement. Learn about the importance of engaging with all of your students and ways to establish a community, use artifacts and quotes to engage your students as well as some engaging writing activities.   To contact Beth Trudell, go to trudell60@aol.com  Mark your calendar for her workshop on Student Engagement Tips which wil...

This week's episode is on MOOC Camps.  Bryant Atencia talks to us about his involvement with MOOC Camps in  the Philippines and provides us with great tips on how to create our own camps, no matter where we are in the world.   To learn more about the programs he is involved in or to contact Bryant for more information:  Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Laguna Camp 2 - https://...

This week we get to learn pronunciation tips from Nicole Kaup, who is an accent coach based in Seattle, Washington.  Nicole and I met when I was the English Language Fellow Coordinator of Southern China and she was the ELF in Liyangyungang  In this episode, Nicole talks about the importance of supra-segmentals and provides us with great websites to help with our students’ pronunciation....

This episode is about how I organize the first day of class with the main objective of students getting to know each other and comfortably choosing a Study Buddy that they will work with throughout the course We talk about • https://www.goosechase.com/ • Two Truths and a Lie • Four Corners • Study Buddy • 1 person in class that you know (or lives by you) • You will work with this person throughout...

This is the first official episode and focuses on how to use Kahoot.com in your classroom.  We talk about different ways to play, edit, and create Kahoots with your students.   Don't forget to try a Kahoot yourself: Kahoot Challenge: https://kahoot.it/challenge/09614733?challenge-id=d2d062cd-7156-475b-90c4-092621a9477e_1601349758141 This podcast is an overview of how to use Kahoots with...

This is the last of our pre-launch bonus episodes.  We are very excited about the official launch next Thursday at 11am GMT! In this episode, I talk about the importance of student engagement and my motivation to learn more after hearing Dornyei speak at the TESOL Convention in 2018.  I also encourage you to check out his new book "Engaging students in contemporary classrooms" which was...

This episode is about why English Language Teachers need TTELT and why ongoing teacher training is so important to maintaining quality teaching around the world.   Through TTELT teachers can benefit from having a network of teachers to work with as they try implementing the ideas they get from the podcast, YouTube channel, and workshops.  However, all of these things need funding in orde...

TTELT is a podcast for English language teachers who never seem to find the time for the professional development we want and need.  Many episodes will be quick tips that we can implement in our classes this week, discussions of journal articles and blogs in our field, and interviews with prominent, and not so prominent, teachers who have tips they'd like to share. I am Dr. Gena Rhoades. I've...