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BT Rio Chapter Podcast
by Stephan Hughes
A podcast on English Language Teaching and Learning - interviews, discussions and ideas for members of Brazil's largest non-profit teacher association BRAZ-TESOL.
Episodes
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast Episode 31 - PBL in times of Covid-19 - with Selma Nunes
This BT Rio Chapter Podcast Episode talks about PBL with a special twist. That special twist was the year 2020, which brought us COVID-19 and subsequent school lockdowns. In the necessary transition to online teaching, teachers have resorted to projects as a form of delivering content and keeping...
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast Episode 30 – Flávia Miguel – Content editor
How has your experience in the classroom helped you as book author/content editor? Why should teachers try their hand in publishing/materials design? What advice would you give to starting teachers who are thinking of specializing in materials design? Our guest, Flavia Miguel, English teacher at...
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast Episode 29 - A chat with Hugo Dart from the BRAZ-TESOL ILE SIG
Hugo Dart has been a teacher for over 22 years. Since 2010, he has been employed at IBEU-RJ, working with EFL, CLIL, and teacher education. At NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education), he specialized in intercultural education and in teacher training. He is the Communications Coordinator…
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast Episode 28 - Chatting with a Materials Designer - Mariana Casals
In this episode, we interview Mariana Casals, an English teacher, proofreader and materials writer based in Rio. A Celta holder and frantic course taker, she has more than 15 years work experience at age 32. We chat about the work of copy editing in ELT, the changes in course design and…
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Episode 27 - Overcoming Challenges in Education - Meet with the Speakers - Sandro Dwarffy
Successfully preparing TOEFL IBT takers Sandro Dwarffy is a licensed Spanish language teacher, TOEFL Trainer, digital entrepreneur and founder of both TOEFL Success and Global English 4U. Sandro has fallen in love with foreign language teaching in the early 2000s and has been a TEFL teacher for...
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast Episode 26 - Self Coaching for Teachers with Andrea Mataruna
What I love about teaching is that I’m the first one to learn. English and Portuguese consultant for Altitude Career Coaching, our guest Andrea Mataruna reminds us of the joy of planning and preparing materials for our classes and the benefits they bring to our personal growth. In this episode…
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast Episode 25 - Throwback - Teaching listening activities - Eduardo Mazzeu
Our Advisory Board member Eduardo Mazzeu gives us his top tips for dealing with listening activities. This was part of the BT Rio Night Live event, broadcast on Instagram on March 29th, 2020.
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast Episode 24 - Overcoming Challenges in Education - Meet the Speakers - Tamires Gama
Our guest this episode is Tamires Gama, an online English teacher with over four years of experience under her belt and owner of SIMPLIFICA. She talks a little more about her presentation in our online event held on July 4 and 5, 2020 called Overcoming Challenges in Education and gives some...
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast Episode 23 - Overcoming Challenges in Education - Meet the Speakers - Aline Coutinho
What is prosodic training in language teaching and why is it important? Our guest and teacher trainer Aline Coutinho goes into more detail about the role of the awareness prosody plays in relaying information and conveying meaning. She also explains how sensitizing learners can improve their...
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast Episode 22 - Overcoming Challenges in Education - Meet the Speakers - Bruno Albuquerque
To motivate our students, all we need are games, right? Well, our advice is you grab a cup of coffee, sit tight and listen in to our guest Bruno Albuquerque as he makes the connection (or lack thereof) between games, gamifying a lesson and motivating students in the language classroom. Our talk...
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast Episode 21 - Being an English teacher in a multilingual city
What makes a city multilingual, and not just a metropolis? ESOL teacher and researcher in Language Policies and Language attitudes, Dr. Isis Berger, tells us a bit about her experience living in a truly multilingual town for the last 18 years and how her professional and academic background in…
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast Episode 20 - Overcoming Challenges in Education - Meet the Speakers - John Corbett
This episode continues our talk with plenary speaker John Corbett about his talk Conversational Stories in English. Here are the questions: What if the students, or the teachers, are overly concerned with how things are being said during a conversation? At what point does Speaking turn into...
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast Episode 19 - Overcoming Challenges in Education - Meet the Speakers - John Corbett
This is the BT Rio Chapter Podcast episode 19! I’m your host Stephan Hughes and this cast is the third in our series called Overcoming Challenges in Education - Meeting with the speakers. This is a chance to talk a little more with the teachers who presented in our chapter event on July 4 and 5…
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast Episode 18 - Overcoming Challenges in Education - Meet the Speakers - Carol Romano
This is the BT Rio Chapter Podcast episode 18! I’m your host Stephan Hughes and this cast is the second of our series called Overcoming Challenges in Education - Meeting with the speakers. This is a chance to talk a little more with the teachers who presented in our chapter event on July 4 and 5…
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast Episode 17 - Overcoming Challenges in Education - Meet the Speakers - Luciana Matos
This is the BT Rio Chapter Podcast episode 17! I’m your host Stephan Hughes and this cast is the first of our series called Overcoming Challenges in Education - Meeting with the speakers. This is a chance to talk a little more with the teachers who presented in our chapter event on July 4 and 5...
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast Episode 16 - Tips for teaching Special Needs students online with @bialingue
One more flashback from our BT Rio Night Live event held on March 29, 2020.
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast Episode 15 - Online Classroom Management with Gabriel Lemos
This is the second of the talks from our Instagram event called BT Rio Night Live held on March 29th, 2020. Second Vice-President Gabriel Lemos walks us through some practical and simple tips that can help teachers manage the online environment of synchronous teaching.
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast Episode 14 - Making instructional videos for remote teaching.
Hello! This is the BT Rio Chapter Podcast episode 14. I'm your host, Stephan Hughes and our topic today is Making educational videos for distance or remote learning. As many teachers are still coming to terms with the changes in educational practices because social gathering restrictions, talking...
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast Episode 13 of 2020 - Teaching Tools
This podcast is a recap of our highly successful live on Instagram, BT Rio Night Live, where members of the board share tips on technology, methodologies, learner disabilities, pronunciation and listening. The first of the six mini talks is on Classroom Management and Technology - enter Class Dojo!
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast Episode 12 - Covid 19 and ELT
Host Stephan Hughes talks about four areas that he believes the Covid 19 quarantine has left us as a legacy in language !. The transition from offline to online 2. The demands from students, parents, schools and communities at large 3. The support network and its importance 4. The learning curve...
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast. Episode 11 - Challenges for the English Teacher in 2020
Our guest is Rosana Reis, English teacher, teacher trainer, coach and advisor, pedagogical coordinator and supervisor, Cambridge speaking examiner. Passionate for life, family, nature and the teaching mission. Rosana talks about learning opportunities and the role of social media in professional...
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast reruns - Maker Movement
This is a rerun from Sep 4 2019, episode in which teachers Izabelle Fernandes and Murillo Veloso walked us through the basics of Implementing a Maker culture in the classroom.
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast number 10 - Implementing Active Methodologies in the ELT classroom
Why is it important to build a relationship with your student to use active methodologies? How does social and emotional learning help the active methodologies tasks? Our guest is Carolina Coelho. She has been teaching English for 13 years. She works with children, teenagers and adults. She has...
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast episode 9 - The role of the coordinator in teacher development.
In this episode we talk with school owner and academic coordinator Andre Tavares from Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro and we discuss the role of the coordinator in teacher development. Andre Tavares can be found on Facebook as Andre Tavares de Souza and on Instagram as @andretavares_oficial. Here are...
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast 8 - Tackling the New National Curriculum Framework - or simply, the BNCC
1. What points can be taken into consideration to integrate the core standards? 2. How can supervisors and coordinators establish clear learning aims for English as a compulsory subject in primary and secondary schools? 3. What changes do you foresee to the planning of school educational policy…
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast Episode 7 - Being a teacherpreneur (in Rio)
About the speakers Sandro Dwarffy is a licensed Spanish language teacher, TOEFL Trainer, digital entrepreneur and founder of both Global English 4U and TOEFL Success. Sandro has fallen in love with foreign language teaching in the early 2000s and has been a TEFL teacher for over 15 years. Sandro…
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast number 6 - Making students Global citizens through Skype
Do you want to provide your students with a real need to use the English they learn? Have you thought of ways to spark their curiosity about other cultures and about their own culture in the process? Are you constantly seeking ways to promote teachable moments and get engaged students who are...
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast number 5 - English for PreSchoolers
Chris Gameiro has been involved in teaching English and training teachers for over 15 years. She also has experience in promoting bilingual programs at regular schools. Chris holds and MA in Language Education and a CELTA. She is specialized in Childhood Education, which has been her main focus…
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast number 4 - Maker Movement
In this podcast, our guests are expert teachers in the Maker Movement, Izabelle Fernandes and Murilo Veloso. They go all out to answer the following pertinent questions: 🔹What is the “Maker Movement” and how does it talk to Education? 🔹What is a MakerSpace?Do we need a MakerSpace to roll out...
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast number 3 - Being a Millennial Teacher.
Entitled, narcissistic, lazy, uncommitted, educated but unskilled. This profile of the Millennial is about to be debunked in this podcast with Teacher coordinator Leticia Sales, as she gives some valuable insight into what a Millennial Teacher is like and how coordinators and administrators can...
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast no. 2 - How writing can boost your professional development.
In this episode we chat with Victor Virgínio, teacher at Cultura Inglesa Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro and contributing author at the Richmond Share Blog. Victor shares a bit about his modus operandi to produce articles based on his teaching practices and classroom ideas. He highlights how...
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BT Rio Chapter Podcast no. 1
Our first podcast interviews two experienced teachers based in Rio de Janeiro - Andrea Câmara and Elizabeth Mattei. They talk about what Professional development means to them and how they get better at what they are already good at - teaching and learning.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A podcast on English Language Teaching and Learning - interviews, discussions and ideas for members of Brazil's largest non-profit teacher association BRAZ-TESOL.
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Stephan Hughes
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