• S02 E12 Neurodiversity Questions Answered - Dyslexia
    May 30 2025

    World-renowned dyslexia expert Boelo van der Pool joins Will and Harry to share his responses to the enormous number of questions we received about supporting students with dyslexia during the Global Teachers' Festival.

    This is part 2 of 3 episodes where we'll be focusing on neurodiversity and the burning questions you had during the festival we just didn't have time for!

    Check out Macmillan Education's Advancing Learning for Everyone website that offers a wide range of resources to help teachers create a truly inclusive learning environment at https://www.macmillanenglish.com/advancing-learning-for-everyone

    Watch Boelo's webinar all about dyslexia here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMqsdbYTWeI

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    30 mins
  • S02 E11 Neurodiversity Questions Answered - Autism
    May 16 2025

    The wonderfully talented and experience Claire Hart joins Will and Harry to answer some of the questions you all asked throughout the Global Teachers' Festival around neurodiversity, more specifically, about supporting learners with autism.

    This is part 1 of 3 episodes where we'll be focusing on neurodiversity and the burning questions you had during the festival we just didn't have time for!

    Check out Macmillan Education's Advancing Learning for Everyone website that offers a wide range of resources to help teachers create a truly inclusive learning environment at https://www.macmillanenglish.com/advancing-learning-for-everyone

    Watch Claire's webinar all about autism here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFdeUt8cd0o

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    31 mins
  • S02 E10 Using Plays to Explore Language and Emotion
    May 2 2025

    Jody Medland joins Will to share his unique experience using manuscripts from plays to allow students to explore them linguistically and also the motivations behind the lines, and therefore, the emotions their character is feeling.

    Listen as Jody explains his truly awe-inspiring technique to help our learners feel more open and helping teachers get one step closer to an inclusive and open learning environment.

    Check out Macmillan Education's Advancing Learning for Everyone website that offers a wide range of resources to help teachers create a truly inclusive learning environment at https://www.macmillanenglish.com/advancing-learning-for-everyone

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    28 mins
  • S02 E09 Mindfulness and Its Journey to the Classroom
    Apr 4 2025

    Mindful learning and mindful practices are gradually becoming a staple of an effective and efficient learning environment.

    Why has it become so important? Where did it's journey to education start? And why should all teachers be aware of ways to use it to their pedagogical advantage in the classroom?

    Emma Reynolds tells Harry and Will all in this episode about the history, both ancient and modern, of mindfulness, and how it's landed in our classrooms.

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    27 mins
  • S02 E08 The Autonomous Teenager: Key Ingredients
    Mar 21 2025

    What does it take for a teenager to be in control of their learning? Is it the subject matter? The pedagogy behind the content? Or is it a simple matter of having a good relationship with the teacher?

    Karolina Kotorowicz-Jasińska proposes exactly this in an episode digging deep into how and why to tune-in to teenagers to help them get the most out of learning (despite themselves, in some cases).

    Brought to you by Macmillan Education's brand new exam preparation course for teens, Optimise Stars, which you can explore in our AI guided showroom here:

    https://www.macmillanenglish.com/catalogue/courses/teenagers/optimise-stars/course-information

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    26 mins
  • S02 E07 Results are in!: Teen Emotions Survey Roundtable
    Mar 7 2025

    Alicja Gałązka picks apart your responses to questions we posed to you in a recent survey aiming to find out more about your experience of teenagers' emotions when they reach teenagehood and how they manifest during learning.

    What are the most common 'big emotions' your notice in your classroom?

    What strategies do you use to ensure all students feel included and valued in your classroom?

    This episode is generously brought you by Find Your Voice. Learn more about this 4-level British English secondary course from Macmillan Education at https://www.macmillanenglish.com/catalogue/courses/teenagers/find-your-voice/course-information

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    31 mins
  • S02 E06 Making Learning Meaningful to Engage Your Learners
    Feb 24 2025

    Monica Rodriguez Salvo joins Will and Harry to delve deep into making learning as relevant as possible to make the absolute best of the time you have with your learners.

    They discuss if you tap into a student's agency and the things they advocate for, you can find a true purpose for their learning within their own world. The content with which you teach can be based on this information, in order to make a truly engaging and productive learning environment.

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    27 mins
  • S02 E05 Learning Grammar in L1 vs. L2
    Jan 31 2025

    Anna Parr-Modrzejewska joins Harry and Will in an episode that digs deep into how grammar is taught in a whole variety of circumstances, from L1 to L2, from implicit to explicit instruction, and from younger to more mature learners.

    What's your opinion on how grammar should be taught?
    Do you look forward to teaching it, or avoid it wherever possible?

    This episode is generously brought you by Academy Stars 2nd edition. Learn more about this 7-level British English primary course from Macmillan Education at https://www.macmillanenglish.com/catalogue/courses/young-learners/academy-stars-second-edition/course-information

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    32 mins
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