Classroom management
Qué!?
How can you stop students from speaking Spanish - both preventatively and curatively?
War without weapons
What do you do before, let's say, CAE Listening part 3?
Will the students hear exactly the same sentences that appear in the task?
What tools do you suggest they use?
Mirror mirror on the wall...
How do you build up on language that is correct but can be much more sophisticated for a level?
What tools do you use or suggest your students to use for that purpose?
Foot Poor My!
What is MPF?
Why is that order important?
How often do you provide all of it?
Why does Neil get so angry if a teacher changes the order?
Can you hear me, me, me, me.......?
What is echoing?
Why is it to be avoided?
How can you make sure you avoid it?
IG/FB/TT/WA
What can you do when a student is clearly not paying attention and probably doing something else with their phone/computer?
You tube!
In terms of apps/websites and tasks, how have you been making use of video?
Hide or Seek?
How do you decide whether to give hot or cold feedback to good/bad language items you hear?
I need a filling right now, doctor!
How much drilling do you do in your classes?
How do you decide when (not) to drill some vocab?
Do you ever drill grammar items?
What different types of drilling do you know?
yes but no, but yes but no,...
Why is it better to use open-ended questions (why do you like cheese?) rather than yes/no closed questions (do you like cheese?) ?
What are your strategies with students whose answers are monosyllabic even with open questions?
I'm here but I'm not
How have you been trying to get students to keep their cameras and mics on?
I'll never forget you!
What tech resources are you using this year to create a written class record of the language which comes up incidentally each class?
What other resource, if any, are you using/going to use to ensure at the end of the year all incidental vocab records from each are stored and available to students?
Twisted FB
How can you facilitate varied feedback on content, to give it a twist and avoid always the stale 'what did you talk about?', so as to continuously build the onda bridge between you, your students and amongst themselves via content FB?
Separate your rubbish, lad!
How much recycling of previously studied vocab/grammar do you do?
What are your favoured methods/activities for recycling?
How can we avoid recycling being repetitive/make sure it's cognitively challenging?
Today we'll see the Present Perfect tense
How do you avoid giving never-ending lectures on grammar? How can you involve students?
How well do you prepare your grammar topics beforehand?
What tech tools can you use to avoid wasting valuable time typing grammar?
I see your queue
How do you decide when it is(n't) necessary to use ICQ's and what are the qualities of good ICQ's?
What else can you do to make things super clear before they begin a task/exercise?
It's the Real World now, baby!
How have you been using authentic materials in any form (video, music, articles, google research tasks..)?
What are your favourite sites/apps/activities for making a connection with the real online English-speaking world?
The Big 3
In terms of language feedback, what different things can you pick up and feedback on? i.e correcting errors
Teacher, what mean 'quixotically quintessential'?
To what extent do you preplan your CCQs for language items you suspect will cause problems?
How good are you at making them up on the spot?
What are the qualities of good CCQ's?
Peer Pressure
In what ways do you use/encourage students to help each other to make them more autonomous as a group and get yourself out of the limelight for a while?
Me, Myself and I
What is your criteria for giving SS silent alone prep time before a task?
Happy 2es
In what ways have you been using Jamboard?
Have you started with Googleclassrooms? Is it useful? How?
So, what did you put for number 5? (ZZZzzzzzzzzz)
How are you deciding when/how to/how much time to devote to HW correction/revealing answers to any given exercise in class?
How can you avoid going through every question of every exercise every time, whether task was for HW or done in class?
Self-Help
What is wrong with providing SS with the feedback item 'succeed' just like that - i.e what other info do they need to be able to use it effectively, in a variety of ways, on their own in the exam/real world?
Stammering
How can you reduce TTT? and increase STT?
Is it always a sin for the teacher to give longer explanations? Which are the exceptions?