Practical tips for your ag classroom and interesting information to incorporate in your teaching. Quick and easy resources for you to read, or “pellets” of information.
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Discover tips for making the most of your Apple products and streamlining your day, all created with the teacher in mind.
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Listen in as we discuss teaching ideas and look for "just one thing" (and maybe more) that can help you tomorrow in the classroom!
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TTELT is a podcast for English language teachers who never seem to find the time for the professional development we want and need. Episodes include tips that we can implement in our classes this week, discussiions of journal articles and blogs in our field, and interviews with prominent, and not so prominent, teachers who have teaching tips they'd like to share. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ttelt/support
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The Vibrant Music Teaching Podcast | Proven and practical tips, strategies and ideas for music teachers
Nicola Cantan
Practical and proven tips, ideas and advice for private music teachers. Listen in to improve your instrumental or vocal music studio business and find that oh-so-elusive feeling of balance in your life. Welcome to The Vibrant Music Teaching Podcast! This is the show for you if you’re an instrumental or vocal music teacher that wants friendly, creative and accessible advice. I’m your host Nicola Cantan. My membership site, Vibrant Music Teaching, helps teachers all over the world to include m ...
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Agricultural Business Management Simulation in the Classroom
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Have you ever heard of 8th graders enjoying accounting? In this week's episode, Neil Knobloch and Andrea Brown talk with the crew regarding their success in integrating an agricultural business management simulation into an eighth-grade classroom. They make double-entry accounting sound fun! Journal article: https://jae-online.org/index.php/jae/art…
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What to say at the start of your recital
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Public speaking makes many people nervous and it's the last thing you want to be worrying about when you're managing all the logistics of a recital. Tune in to hear my simple formula for your welcome speech at your next student concert. Find out more about membership at vibrantmusicteaching.com.Av Nicola Cantan
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S4 11.1 Motivating Pre-Service Teachers to Become Teachers of English Language
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Join us to hear Milsania Lopez, Dean of University of Santiago, Cuba, as she shares techniques for motivating pre-service teachers to become teachers of the English Language.She shares ways to motivate teachers to become teachers of English. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ttelt/messageSupport this podcast: http…
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Supporting Alternatively Certified Teachers
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Alternatively certified teachers bring a variety of experiences to their practice of agricultural education that add value to their schools and benefit their students. Kellie Claflin (The Ohio State University) asks us to think about how we can better support teachers, but especially those new to the profession. She encourages us to be connectors; …
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How to stay CALM during recital season
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Many of us are about to organise and host recitals. Let's take a moment together to breathe and keep it calm this time around. Find out more about membership at vibrantmusicteaching.com.Av Nicola Cantan
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Virtual professional development is a reality of the post-pandemic world, and it's changed how we deliver and expect to interact with PD. Amber Rice (University of Arizona) shares great insight from CASE participants to help us think about what professional development participants have access to in terms of community development, content, and deli…
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Behind-the-Scenes at Our Silent Film Piano Festival
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This is a bumper episode of the show where I'm sharing everything that went into our Silent Film Piano Festival, and what I might do differently in future. Find out more about membership at vibrantmusicteaching.com.Av Nicola Cantan
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Professional Development for Inclusion, Diversity, & Equity
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With a decline in the teaching workforce and a decline in teacher diversity, Matt Wood and Michelle Burrows at Utah State University wanted to know: what's the effect on ag programs? In exploring attitudes and professional development around Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (IDE), they found teachers were looking for PD to help them tap into studen…
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If This Were EASY What Would That Look Like?
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This is the most important question I've been asking myself lately. What tools can we use to make it feel easy for the student, so that they feel confident, competent and motivated. Find out more about membership at vibrantmusicteaching.com.Av Nicola Cantan
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What are we recruiting to? Tiffany Marzalino and Aaron McKim at Michigan State University share how Michigan ag teachers are recruiting students to their programs--and it might be more straightforward than you think! Tune in as we talk about authenticity, inclusivity and belonging, empowering students to share their experiences, and the different l…
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Do you treat all genres equally in your studio? Do your students know how you feel about the music THEY like? Find out more about membership at vibrantmusicteaching.com.Av Nicola Cantan
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Assessing & Evaluating Mentoring (7. Mentoring Mini-Series)
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How can we evaluate mentoring? Do you know what purpose you are serving as a mentor or mentee? In this week's episode Brian, Becky, and Mike discuss how to assess and evaluate mentoring. Tune in as the crew continues their mentoring mini-series.Av Owl Pellets
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Alternatives to Zoom for Online Lessons
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If you don't want to use Zoom for your online lessons, what can you use instead? Here are a few ideas with pros and cons. Find out more about membership at vibrantmusicteaching.com.Av Nicola Cantan
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S4 9.0 Engaging with Student Interests
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Based in Colombia, Gustavo Valiente shares an effective technique to engage students in communication! Discover their interests and adapt your topic and grammar to fit their interests. This technique provides intrinsic motivation for speaking. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ttelt/messageSupport this podcast: ht…
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Establishing integrated school gardens takes a champion to start, but a team to maintain. Jade Davidson (Oregon State University) and Jason Peake (University of Georgia) share a framework and the components necessary to integrate sustainable and integrated school gardens that are part of the school culture. Journal Article: https://agdevresearch.or…
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Teaching parents habit stacking for practice
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Learn how habit stacking can help your beginner students to become steady practisers. Find out more about membership at vibrantmusicteaching.com.Av Nicola Cantan
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Geocaching is a treasure hunting community teachers can leverage as an instructional tool. Rachel Hendrix (West Virginia University) and John Rickets (Tennessee State University) join the crew to help us learn how to use geocaching to promote critical thinking, teamwork, and communication and to use geocaching as an instructional tool. Journal arti…
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6 Things to Teach Adult Music Students About Home Practice
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What do adult students need to know about practice? Here are 6 things I think are essential for them to learn. Find out more about membership at vibrantmusicteaching.com.Av Nicola Cantan
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S4 8.0 Integrating Radio for Communication Proficiency
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Join us to hear Juan Carlos Domingez, based in Cuba, as he shares an innovative technique of integrating radio into the English classroom. He shares weekly idiomatic expressions in the context of a conversation. Students are challenged to deduce the meanings of idioms from English-speaking countries around the world. Radio Metropolitana Havana --- …
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The One-Way Mirror: How Young Ag Leaders Understand and Experience Culture
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Understanding and experiencing culture is critical for young agricultural leaders, but there's often some anxiety around having culturally competent conversations. Never fear--Janiece Pigg (Tennessee Youth Development) is here to help us think about opportunities to expand our cultural lens. Journal article: https://jae-online.org/index.php/jae/art…
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I've got 13 random pieces of advice for music teachers today. One of these could make your week! Find out more about membership at vibrantmusicteaching.com.Av Nicola Cantan
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Mentoring Behaviors (6. Mentoring Mini-Series)
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Prepare to enter mentoring! Mentoring is a huge undertaking, and in this episode, Brian, Mike, and Becky explore what we need to enter mentoring and point to tools to support that process in formal mentoring relationships.Av Owl Pellets
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If you were your own teacher...would you approve of how you teach yourself? Confused? Listen in to find out what I'm on about. Find out more about membership at vibrantmusicteaching.com.Av Nicola Cantan
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S4 7.0 Conventional and Virtual Learning Spaces
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Join us to hear Dr. Pankaj Mehrotra, an English teacher from Delhi, India, as he discusses conventional and virtual learning spaces and how they affect teacher–student and student–student interactions in the classroom. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ttelt/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.…
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SBAE Teacher Performance and Program Quality
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There are hundreds of ways to measure success in SBAE programs, and Haley Traini (Oregon State University) joins us to talk about them all! We'll chat about teacher and program performance, overwhelm, and career expectations in the jam packed episode! Journal article: https://jae-online.org/index.php/jae/article/view/29…
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What do you do when your student injures an arm/wrist/hand? We've got the answers for you today! Find out more about membership at vibrantmusicteaching.com.Av Nicola Cantan
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S4 6.0 Challenges in Teaching Beginning Students in the U.S.
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Join us to hear Sharifa Djurabaeva, an English teacher originally from Uzbekistan, who is currently teaching beginning newcomerhigh school students in Massachusetts. Sharifa will discuss the challenges she has faced and how she is meeting them. Discover new resources and ideas that may help you in a similar teaching situation. --- Send in a voice m…
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S4 5.0 The Experiential Learning Cycle: A Valuable Assessment Tool
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Join us to hear Dilia Topham, a veteran Teacher-Trainer, currently working in Dushanbe,Tajikistan for the American Council, as she describes the Experiential Learning Cycle and gives examples ofhow it can be used by teachers and teacher-trainees for self-assessment and improvement. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho…
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We all have students with special needs in our classes. Unfortunately, many of us also need additional training to support our SPED students. Tune in as the OP team chats with Raegan Ramage (Louisiana) as she shares tips for opening communication with SPED teachers, working with students, and involving SPED students in Agricultural Education. Journ…
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Mnemonics can be a contentious issue. Here's how I handle it when parents use mnemonics at home. Find out more about membership at vibrantmusicteaching.com.Av Nicola Cantan
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Perceived Use of Instructional Methods
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We rely on a toolbox of instructional methods as agricultural educators. Blake Colclasure (University of Tennessee) and Jack Dempsey (University of Illinois & Cascade Reading) share how our belief in a method's effectiveness affects our use of that method. Spoiler alert: you've got to believe! Journal Article: https://agdevresearch.org/index.php/aa…
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Practice notes are one of the main tools we have to communicate with students in between lessons. So how can you make them better? Find out more about membership at vibrantmusicteaching.com.Av Nicola Cantan
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S4 4.0 Reading/Listening into EAP Speaking
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Join us to hear Dr Arum Perwitasari, Academic Relations Lead at ETS Global, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, as she describes how to integrate reading or listening activities into speaking activities for English for Academic Purposes. She gives some examples of integrated tasks that teachers can use to teach academic speaking. Listen to hear mo…
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Curricular Resource Use and Pedagogical Design Capacity
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Growing as an effective educator is a skill to practice, especially as we work to engage students. Tune in as we talk with Tre Easterly (University of Florida) about how to improve our teaching by improving instructional clarity, increasing variety, demonstrating enthusiasm, using task-oriented behaviors, and providing opportunities for students to…
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What are the most common practice mistakes students make? And how can we help them avoid those mistakes? Find out more about membership at vibrantmusicteaching.com.Av Nicola Cantan
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S4 3.0 Sustainability and Green in ELT
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Join us to hear Peter Holly, a freelancer based in Hungary, as he describes how to teach environmentalism and sustainability in English Language Teaching. He gives teachers tips and ideas on how to incorporate sustainability and climate change in every ELT lesson, from the intro to regular classroom practices. Listen to hear more! #environment #lan…
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Identities in Mentoring (5. Mentoring Mini-Series)
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Identity is the composite of who a person is, including their thoughts about themselves, how they're viewed by the world, and the characteristics individuals use to define themselves. Join the OP crew for the next installation of the mentoring mini-series as they talk about supporting people in finding their fit and acknowledging contributions.…
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How to Improve Practice Habits in Your Studio
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Do the practice habits in your studio need a refresh button? I've got some tips to help. Find out more about membership at vibrantmusicteaching.com.Av Nicola Cantan
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S4 2.0 Quantitative Research in Language Education
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Join us to hear Dr Mohamed Benhima, an assistant professor in the English Department of Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, as he describes quantitative research methodology and statistical data analysis in language education. He explains how quantitative data can be collected and how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help with data analysis. L…
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S4 1.0 Writing Feedback Using Auto-Peer
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Join us to hear Philip McCarthy, Associate Professor at the American University of Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates, as he shares Auto-Peer, an automated feedback system designed to facilitate student writing and student feedback literacy. He explains how Auto-Peer helps student writers and shares feedback from students and colleagues. Listen to h…
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S3 52.0 Gamification in the ESL Classroom
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Join us to hear Dr Sapna Dileesh, Head of Foundation at the Oman Dental College in Muscat, Oman, as she shares how she uses gamification in the ESL classroom. She discusses some things that a teacher needs to consider while incorporating gamification in the ESL classroom as well as the advantages and disadvantages of gamification. She also mentions…
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S3 51.0 Using Linguistic Landscape in Teaching
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Join us to hear Anastasia Khawaja, an adjunct professor in the Department of English at the University of South Florida,as she shares how she implemented linguistic landscape in her teaching units in Israel. She discusses how to use linguistic landscape to start difficult conversations in a region of conflict and how we can explore language represe…
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What’s the Difference? (4. Mentoring Mini-Series)
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Mentoring, coaching, advising, role modeling, sponsorship--what's the big deal? Aren't they all kind of the same thing? Join the Owl Pellets team as we work through the difference, and value, of each different type of relationship in our personal and professional lives.Av Owl Pellets
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Do you feel like you have a good balance in your life? Let's talk about strategies to improve it in this episode. Find out more about membership at vibrantmusicteaching.com.Av Nicola Cantan
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Join us to hear Eyhab Yaghi, a lecturer in the English department in the College of Education at Majmaah University in Saudi Arabia,as he shares with us the online reading dispositions students use to enable more effective online learning . He discusses several different online reading dispositions used by students and describes how they can be har…
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Youth Livestock Production: More than meets the eye
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Being involved in agriculture connects kids to their communities. Rebecca Mott and John Tummons (University of Missouri) share how we can use youth livestock experiences to encourage deep reflection and growth toward independence. Resources: https://bit.ly/41h9lYl Journal Article: https://jae-online.org/index.php/jae/article/view/297…
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Piano Teaching Activities for When You Have 3-5 Minutes to Spare
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We often suffer from a lack of time in lessons...but what about when we have a few minutes left in a lesson? What can we do that is beneficial, but also wraps up the lesson in a nice way? Find out more about membership at vibrantmusicteaching.com.Av Nicola Cantan
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S3 49.0 Using Blogs to Motivate Writing
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Join us to hear Fatia Jellad, a secondary school teacher in Tunisia who recently obtained her PhD in Cultural Studies, as she shares with us how to use blogs to motivate students to write in English. She discusses the steps for implementing blogs in the classroom and what makes them an effective tool for writing instruction. She also mentions some …
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Adapting FFA Programs for Your Community
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FFA is steeped in tradition. Join the conversation with Mike Martin (Iowa State University) to think about how we engage our chapters and communities over competition as we enact meaningful FFA programs. Mike shares how we can focus on the things that make sense to local members and adapt traditions to make them more meaningful. Journal Article: ht…
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Let's solve that overwhelm. Learn about JDOT in this episode and what it can do for your mental space. Find out more about membership at vibrantmusicteaching.com.Av Nicola Cantan
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