Category: Pedagogy & Instructional Design

You might have watched it happen: You’re mid-explanation, working through a grammar point with real care, and you can see the exact moment your class checks out. Then, five minutes…

This year, I used Google AI extensively as my go-to teaching companion. Sometimes I just have a general idea about a topic I would like to teach my students so,…

The story: Asking students about their everyday life and engaging them in small talk is a key ritual in my class—whether in-person or online. It helps me build trust with…

Recent training experiences with fully online and blended learning instructors have inspired me. Instructors asked if there were any alternate activity types for their lower-level learners. They asked for short,…

Teachers rejoiced when they returned to in-person classes after teaching online during the pandemic. Virtual classes were a rough go for many of us, who had little to no experience…

Classroom management for English as a Second Language (ESL) learning environments is different than K-12 learning environments because adult learners come with various unique lived experiences. Some of these might…