A Zoom With A View #1

In this episode, I’m talking to Eoin MacCarthaigh. This is the first in what we hope will be a long line of episodes focused on issues in and around international English teaching. It’s important at the outset to explain that this is an unapologetic rip off another podcast that I personally love, namely Craig Barton and Ollie Lovell’s Tips and Tools for Teachers. For anyone who hasn’t heard this show, first of all it is a fantastic listen for professionals of any discipline. Specifically, the regular format is that both speakers bring forth 3 unknown issues to be discussed each, relating to things that they’ve thought, learnt or considered lately. So, here is me and Eoin’s effort at doing the same with an international English bent.

We discuss

1. AI

2. Oracy

3. Inquiry

4. Gapless instruction

5. Infographics

6. And lastly, whether English sits outside the insights of cognitive research

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Links:

Meanings and practices of inquiry-based teaching and learning in the International Baccalaureate (2022) Joseph L. Polman and Karla Scornavacco

Drew Perkins’ interview with Dylan Wiliam

Craig Barton’s interview with Adam Boxer

Bringing the English Curriculum to Life by David Didau