With your co-hosts Will Rixon and Harry Waters, the Advancing Learning Podcast is a place for conversation, debate, idea-sharing and merry-making, all in the name of Advancing Learning in the wonderful world of ELT. It accompanies the wider Advancing Learning Academic Programme from Macmillan Education, where you'll find a whole range of teacher training webinars, blog articles, resources and more at www.macmillanenglish.com/alap.
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Macmillan Education hosts Advancing Learning Podcast, a education show with 32 episodes published.
Festival Special - ELT Trends: Past & Future with Pilar Capaul
Feb 4, 202627mEp. 1S3
For this Global Teachers' Festival Special, Harry and Will are joined by the British Council and International House's Pilar Capaul . This episode looks at the role of a trend. While exploring some of today's most talked
S02 E14 Critical Thinking in Language Education
Jun 27, 202527mEp. 14S2
Do you teach critical thinking skills in your classroom? How do you go about it? And why do you feel the need to teach them? The unstoppable Chia Suan Chong at long last joins the Advancing Learning Podcast to discuss wh
S02 E13 Neurodiversity Questions Answered - ADHD
Jun 13, 202524mEp. 13S2
ADHD expert, Vicky Allan, joins Will and Harry on an episode getting into depth on ADHD, how teachers can identify it, what is actually is (and isn't), and how you can create a learning environment that includes all stud
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.
The wonderfully talented and experienced 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
S02 E10 Using Plays to Explore Language and Emotion
May 2, 202527mEp. 10S2
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
S02 E09 Mindfulness and Its Journey to the Classroom
Apr 4, 202526m0
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 tea
S02 E08 The Autonomous Teenager: Key Ingredients
Mar 21, 202526mEp. 8S2
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
S02 E07 Results are in!: Teen Emotions Survey Roundtable
Mar 7, 202530mEp. 7S2
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 lear
S02 E06 Making Learning Meaningful to Engage Your Learners
Feb 24, 202527mEp. 6S2
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 an
S02 E05 Learning Grammar in L1 vs. L2
Jan 31, 202531mEp. 5S2
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 matu
S02 E04 What's the Point of Assessment?
Jan 17, 202530mEp. 4S2
Pere Cortiella Ibàñez and Will Rixon pull apart the true purpose of assessment why it's regarded in the way it is by all its players: the teacher, the student, the parent, the institution and the government. What is the
S02 E03 Good results should reflect good learning
Jan 3, 202528mEp. 3S2
The third episode of the Advancing Learning Pod brings Claudia Rey into the fray (rhyming intended). Claudia sets Harry and Will on the straight and narrow with what's important when preparing learners for exams. I'll gi
S02 E02 Inclusivity, We All Matter
Dec 6, 202427mEp. 2S2
Do you feel your classroom is inclusive? To what extent? What does 'inclusive' mean to you? Sarah Hillyard joins Will and Harry to discuss the multitude of meanings of 'inclusion' and how this might be achieved in the En
S02 E01 Curiosity, Classrooms and Beavers
Nov 22, 202428mEp. 1S2
To kick-off the second season of Macmillan Education's Advancing Learning Podcast, Will and Harry are joined by the Eltonix pair, Sea Steele and Sarah Smith to discuss what curiosity is, how brains work when they're curi
S01 E16 SDGs: An Infinite Classroom Resource
Aug 2, 202429mEp. 16S1
Harry is joined by Marcela Villan to explore a whole range of classroom ideas that you can use to help your learners to explore the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals in class. Bookmark this session to keep th
S01E15 Instagram, Tik-tok & Short-form Content
Jul 19, 202431mEp. 15S1
Claire Bowes, with more than 1.5 million followers across her Instagram and Tik-tok profiles, Englii, joins Will and Harry (not the Princes, the other two) discussing some best practices for getting heard amongst the soc
S01 E14 Proactively Diminishing Bullying Part 2
Jul 5, 202431mEp. 14S1
For the second part of this conversation with the wonderful Donna Lee Fields, she probes Harry and Will on their own reactions to certain behaviour in the classroom. The 3 of them look at 2 scenarios and how might a teac
S01 E13 Becoming an ELT Author
Jun 21, 202426mEp. 13S1
Ethan Mansur, author of the recently published Ready For C2 joins Harry and Will on the metaphoric sofa, to discuss how he got into authoring (and others might do so) from being a teacher and teacher trainer. Hear from 3
S01 E12 Pronunciation: Get Out of Your Head
Jun 7, 202428mEp. 12S1
Harry and Will are joined by Adrian Underhill, a true icon of pronunciation and a lifelong advocate for supporting our language learners with the relevant knowledge and skills to develop their own pronunciation. The conv
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