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#151
Now that the school year is over hopefully you have a little less on your mind and have a little extra time. This is the perfect time to get into your summer headspace. What do I mean by that? You’ll soon understand. Let’s jump in.

• time to reflect without other pressing priorities and issues
• opportunity to revisit themes and episodes with a fresh lens
• catch something new.
• finish an episode that you started
• listen to an episode for the first time

I’ll group episodes by theme so that you can listen to them together with a 5 minute recap to pull the themes together. The links to episodes will be in the show notes.

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#150
How often do we stop to reflect on our teaching? Hopefully we take the time and opportunity to do it regularly so that we are teaching our students as effectively as possible. In this episode I’m going to talk about reflective practice and how we can use this as language teachers. I’ll also include a discussion of success criteria and how this can work into our reflective practice. I know, this all sounds way up there in the theory world. I promise you it’s not and that it’s fairly simple.

Topics in this Episode:

• Reflection can help you to be more creative and try new things. It’s very easy to get stuck in a rut and it can be helpful to think about what you are doing and why you are doing it. This can help to spark new ideas and ways of thinking.
• Reflection in Learning and Professional Development: Theory and Practice, Moon, J. (1999)
• Reflective Practice for Language Teachers:
  1. Teach
  2. Assess the effect your teaching has on learning
  3. Consider what can improve the quality of teaching and learning
  4. Try the new ideas
  5. Reflect on effectiveness
  6. Repeat
• The Success Criteria Playbook John T. Almarode, Douglas Fisher, Kateri Thunder, Nancy Frey (2021)
• Tim Eagan on Episode 60: Leading a Proficiency Focused Language Department
• Success Criteria:
  • What will be learned?
  • Why is it going to be learned?
  • How will I know that it has been learned?
  • What will I do with what I learned?

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#149
As teachers, and proficient second language speakers, we have figured out ways to communicate words that we don’t know. We can teach this skill to students early on so that they can begin doing it right away. Circumlocution is a strategy for describing or defining a concept instead of saying or writing the specific words (when we don’t know it). We can teach students how to do this and give them tools to help in the process. In this episode I give suggestions to teach students how to cicumlocute along with games for practicing this skill.

Blog Post on Circumlocution.

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