How to Use Stories in Class (with Dave Weller)
Encouraging Young Learners to be Creative (with Matt Courtois)
Independent Play in English with Very Young Learners (with Sandie Mourão)
Learning to Learn with Children (with Gail Ellis)
Choice, Challenge & Routine with Young Learners (with Jake Whiddon)
Challenging the Limits of Technology (With Mark Pemberton)
Positive Behavior Management with Young Learners (with Matt Courtois)
Getting Your Students Moving (with Matt Courtois)
Knowledge and Challenges for Young Learner Teachers (With Wendy Arnold)
Wendy Arnold passes on a wealth of experience of teaching and writing about young learners. Wendy tells us about how young learners' home lives affect their development, how the expectations of teachers and materials writers can effect student achievement and the problems associated with one size fits all curricula and coursebooks.
Involving Students' Parents in Language Learning (with Jake Whiddon)
Parents are one of the most important factors in determining how successful students are. In this episode, Jake Whiddon and I discuss how to involve parents in young learners’ learning. Why is it important to involve students' parents in language learning? How can we demonstrate learning to parents? What can teachers do to help parents understand language learning?
Teaching Phonics (with Lesley White)
Letterland teacher trainer Lesley White tells Ross about phonics. We touch on the history, the advantages of phonics over other approaches, different options to teachers within the phonics system and some of the differences between learning to read in your first language and in your second language.
Using Storybooks and Graded Readers (with Jake Whiddon)
Jake Whiddon joins me to talk about using storybooks in class. So many schools have graded readers, but so few teachers use these in class. Graded readers can be used with students of any age group and any level. They’re a great alternative to the coursebook and a contextualized way of presenting new language. In this episode, you’ll hear a simple five step approach that you can use to use graded readers with your students.
Getting Young Learners to Communicate with Each Other (with Matt Courtois)
Teaching Vocabulary to Children (with Annamaria Pinter)
Using The Tools Of Positive Discipline (with Dina Emser)
Author and positive discipline trainer, Dina Esmer, joins me to talk about tools for managing young learners’ behavior. What can teachers do to encourage long term positive behavior in class? How can teachers train learners to solve their own behavior problems? And what can teachers do when conflicts happen in their classes?
Doing Task Based Teaching with Children (with Jane Willis)
Tasks and task-based learning are often associated with adults and higher level learners. But can we use tasks and task-based teaching with young learners? Jane Willis, author of Doing Task Based Teaching and A Framework for Task-based Learning joins us to talk about using TBL with beginners and very young learners.