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TEFL Waffle
by The Non Stop Wafflers
Steve and Troy waffle about the exciting and wonderful world of Teaching English in a foreign country.
Episodes
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There’s an app for that
Please write a short description of a podcast episode where 2 teachers discuss students usage of AI in writing lessons: Title: "Bytes of Wisdom: Navigating the AI Frontier in Student Writing" Description: In this insightful episode of "EduChat Chronicles," join our hosts, seasoned educators Ms....
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What kids can tell you about summer school
In this episode Troy and Steve discuss an episode in which Troy interpolates meaning from his kid's comments on classroom activities. It's a wild ride into the meaning one projects onto the blanks slates that all teachers are. Or something like that...
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Episode 98: Online, offsite, remote, distance teaching teachers to teach
Can you learn how to do something without doing the something? Is listening to people talk about learning to do something a complex or compound sentence? To explore this topic, join us and our menagerie, flora, fauna, offspring and a cool car cameo!
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Episode 97: Teaching managers to manage teachers
If you want something done right, then sometimes you have to do it yourself. But if what you want done is for someone to do your job for you, then that's kind of moot. Perhaps what you want to do is be mute, and let them do it for you. As long as they are doing it the way you want done, without…
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Episode 96: Semantically speaking
A: "Did you hear that they got a new puppy?" B: "Get out of here!" A: Leaves...... B: "Oh, come on!" A: "Huh?" B: "Are you off?" A: (Sniffs own armpit) "Um, no?" B: "Are you off your wheaties?" A: ... (Gives up on English forever)
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Episode 95: Graduation Day
Pomp! Circumstance! Flowing Gowns! Is it all worth it? Or is it all about it? Is it the icing on the cake, or being pushed to give a rating and review after a meal? A lot of people love a good celebration, and it is a nice way for them to tie up a part of life that (presumably) required some...
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Episode 94: The man without a group
We all get a little lonely sometimes, but we get by with a little help from our friends. But what if we don't have any friends? What if nobody wants to help us? What if nobody wants our help? It's OK though, sometimes we're in a lovely egalitarian environment with a benign dictator who is willing...
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Episode 93 - Did you do your homework Johnny?
To homework, or not to homework. That is the question. Do you think Mr Wilkins will remember to check the assignment? Can I copy yours? Sorry, my dog ate my pencil.. In this episode, Troy and Steve facilate on this rather (un)important question. Both have long histroies of avoiding homework - as...
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Episode 92: Teachers outside the classroom
In this episode, Troy and Steve ask whether teachers can ever not be teachers. What happens to us after the lessons end? Can we turn all that teacher stuff off? Or do we carry it around like a bad backpack with all the important stuff in it that one can't possibly do without? Or, as we kind of...
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Episode 91: Descriptively prescribed
To teach, or not to teach, the question is, is that a complete sentence, seeing as the rule dictates that sentences should contain a subject, verb, and object. Also, when is the correct time to use a semi colon; that is, is it correct to join the clauses as was done when it also includes a zero...
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Episode 90: Atmosphere
Are you comfortable? Are you happy? Is this activity pleasing you? Troy and Steve don't care, really. Nevertheless should you feel these things are important, you are a humanist. And if you teach lessons with these concerns in mind you are a teacher who worries about classroom atmosphere.…
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Episode 89: Digital literacies
Do you ever have the feeling that the person handling the other end of your technology have no idea what they are doing? Like Troy and Steve trying to do this podcast, perhaps? Well, it might be that students and teachers have the same problem even though they have to teach and learn online. They...
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Episode 88: A secret complaint
Troy and Steve waffle endlessly about cases where students confide, and to complicate things, it's all about another teacher. What does ethics say? What does your heart say? What do the students say? What does your gut say? In one amazing moment, Troy actually uses the word 'albeit' with perfect...
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Episode 87: The perfect curriculum
What do you teach? In what order? Is that part needed there? Perhaps you should just skip this section here till later. Oh wait, scaffolding won't work here because they don't know X and they have to do Y, but they don't know Z yet. I know, I'll look at the curriculum! Wait, where is it now?
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Episode 86: Strong classes
Troy has a new job, and his students are strong. They lift weights, carry buses around, and speak English like they don't need a foreign language teacher. That means he has a lot of fun, but a few problems too. What is he to do with these super students? How will he cope with the demands made on...
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Episode 85: TITM: Snape
How do you know what a 'bad teacher' looks like? Well, his name rhymes with cape, and he is wearing one! In this episode Evets and Yort explore one scene - yes, just one scene of only 2 minutes - and find out just how bad Snape is as a teacher, and by extension, how you shouldn't bother trying to...
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Episode 84: Joblessness
Steve and Troy finally emerge into the sunshine after an indeterminate length of time in their respective basements and get together to waffle endlesslessly. Endless waffle is kind of like that terrible lesson you didn't prepare for, where time seems to last forever. Steve even says so. If you…
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Episode 83: When tests go wrong
How good is anyone's English when the tests we give are hard to understand? Even Troy can't understand these test questions, and his English is excellent. In this fun episode, Troy compiles a selection of fantastic test questions that are difficult to answer because there isn't one, or not any…
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Episode 82: Managing your job interview
Troy's argument in this episode is that when you are offered a job, you need to ask a lot of very penetrating questions, and just sort of generally act the inquisitor during the interview. This makes sense because Troy often takes jobs and doesn't actually know what he's said agreed to do! Steve,...
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Episode 81: Testing, assessment, quizzes, marks, scores and examinations
Welcome to pod-battle, compliments of TEFLargue. Listen, and learn how to win a fight and alienate people. Anyway, what role to tests play in a teacher's life? Should a teacher worry excessively about test quality, or just get them done to submit scores? Do exams really make any difference in...
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Episode 80: TITM: To Sir With Love 2
This podcast is not a sequel. We all hate sequels because they are never as good as the original. Except Star Wars. And Star Trek. And To Sir With Love. Yes, it's true, although that's simply Steve's opinion. This teacher is now an old man, in a grungy American school, with awesome students who…
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Episode 79: Prescriptivism vs descriptivism
How good are you at grammar? Or should that be 'with grammar'? How seriously do you take things when someone makes a mistake? Are there such things as mistakes? Do you think teachers should take things like grammar as part of their core job? How about disagreeing with another teacher about…
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Episode 78: Working from home
In this exciting episode, which was recorded at home, Steve interviews our guest speaker, Troy, on his experience of working from home during these unprecedented (at least in our lifetimes) times when going to work is illegal, banned, disallowed, and generally not a good idea. Troy tells us about...
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Episode 77: How do Germans pronounce brie?
Yes, and how do British people pronounce Wagga Wagga? Or how do Americans pronounce 'Sawatdi Krap'? And how does anyone pronounce Edinburgh? Are these political questions? Or are they issues of phonology? Does it matter? Well, today Troy and Steve make it matter a lot. Not only are these…
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Episode 76: Nomination
Nomination is the process of selecting individual students in the classroom to respond to a question. In this episode, the cat decided to nominate itself to be a very vocal member of the podcasting team, blasting Steve and Troy into oblivion with its eagerness to participate with you, dear...
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Episode 75: TITM: Kindergarten Cop 2
Yes, we do sequels. This movie stars a kindergarten cop too, and it involves children and a cop, because it's a copy of a movie about a cop in a kindergarten. This time, there is chocolate, and pigs, and a creepy IT guy who turns out to be (spoiler alert) a hero. The moral of the story is that…
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Episode 74: Emotional investment
How invested are you in your students? How long did it take you to become invested in this way? Why are some teachers not invested? What does it mean to be invested? Steve and Troy waffle in a rather circular and convoluted way about these and other wondrous questions in this very podcast! Listen...
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Episode 73: Failure
In this podcast, Steve fails a lot. It's on purpose because he is doing a meta-demonstration of how failure can be a marvelous way to mortify - no, to create learning, development, growth and improvement. See, failure is a good thing, actually, even though most schools avoid, dodge, escape and...
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Episode 72: CLIL
Do you like your CLIL hard, or soft? Or would you prefer your CLIL tempered with a bit of EMI? And if you want to have a CLIL lesson, would you like your maths with a bit of English, or do you like your English with a bit of maths stuck in it? Should language teachers even worry about content, or...
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Episode 71: Teaching and learning online
Are our learners really learning language when they're learning online only? If you can understand that question, nicely done! Steve and Troy successfully waffle about the stigma of online learning in the light of the latest fashion of staying at home when you study (because of Covid, not because...
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Episode 70: TITM: To sir with love
Troy and Steve watched a movie. This movie had many classroom scenes, it was set in a school, had students and a few teachers. There was drama. There were underlying themes relating to society. Troy got upset about it. Steve thought it was all a big joke, especially the interview scene. Many…
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Episode 69: A return to the classroom ft. Sunee
Sunee demoted herself from manager and teacher trainer to classroom teacher. Or was it a promotion? She's back to tell us about what she has learned about herself as a teacher since she's gone back into the classroom to, well, teach. If you listen carefully you'll hear just how well she is…
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Episode 68: Staffroom complaints
Teachers talk. A lot. They talk in the classroom, but they also talk in the staffroom, and this kind of staffroom chatter can sound like complaining, but it's also a really good way for teachers to be cathartic, to reflect, to develop professionally, and to stay sane. As a manager, this kind of...
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Episode 67: Reading, or testing?
How exactly do you teach reading? Can reading even be taught? Is there a difference between teaching reading and testing students' comprehension? Are you even reading this and how do we know you are? If you are reading, is there any way you really know if you comprehend anything on here? Should...
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Episode 66: Using drama in the classroom
Rolling drums, crashing symbols, DRAMATIC INTRO!!! Oh, Wait, not that kind of drama... Steve: Children, what's the name of this episode? Children: Scream uncontrollably. Steve: That's right! Good job. And what are we going to do today? Children: Scream less uncontrollably. Steve: Good job! When…
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Episode 65.2: TITM: Dangerous Minds Part 2
This movie demanded a lot of waffling. Really, a lot. See if you can see the link between spiders in the tropics, and the core themes embedded in this movie on children studying high school in America. If you find it, you get a chance to win an opportunity to enter a raffle which will draw from...
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Episode 65: TITM: Dangerous Minds
Have you ever watched a movie that has every cliche rolled into one blonde? This one has them all in one classroom. You can have them all for the price of one Snickers bar, and more. In fact, there are so many cliches to talk about here, Steve and Troy need two episodes to do it. Troy's copious...
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Episode 64: Compliments from students
Are you a good teacher? Do your students think you are good? How do you know? What sorts of things do they say? In today's session, Troy wants to waffle about how students compliment a teacher who is good (in their opinion) and how to deal with it. Steve has little to say today because nobody...
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Episode 63: Learning ABC
How do children learn the alphabet? How do ESL learners learn the ABC? It's complex. In today's episode we have some authentic material - recordings of Troy's son learning the alphabet with his amazing father/teacher. What Steve and Troy are up to is taking a critical view of the books children...
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Episode 62: 6 Principles of Exemplary Teaching
Do you want to be an exemplary teacher? Do you want to have an exemplary classroom? Or perhaps do you feel like having exemplary learning taking place in and around you? If you said yes to any one of those questions, you are amazing, and your prize is to get to listen to this exemplary podcast....
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Episode 61: Mini-episodes: Technophones + Homework
Troy and Steve are not usually too stupid. But when it comes to technology, they are. And why not - they are teachers, not computer geeks. So now that the world is crashing down in all sorts of random ways, and teachers are being called to action through a variety of online and technologically...
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Episode 60: TITM: My Fair Lady
This is a long movie with lots and lots of cultural- and time-bound references, and it's also a classic. And, it's about pronunciation! Do you like linguistics? No? How about applied linguistics? No? How about sociolinguistics? No? How about love stories with cultural and time bound references?...
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Episode 59: Remote teaching - the idiot's version
We need to keep our distance from people, because, well, it's Covid time. So teachers have to teach from home, and podcasters have to podcast from home(s). How hard can it be, right? Just do what you do, but do it at home. Well, we have empirical evidence, in the form of this podcast, that if...
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Episode 58: Teaching in a time of Covid
The end isn't nigh, but it does mean we need to change how we think about teaching, learning, technology, life in general and the nature of classroom interaction. That's hard for Steve - he isn't cut out for this sort of stuff, and you can hear him complaining about all this change on this very...
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Episode 57: Working with parents
Parents have an important role to play in education. For one thing, they provide the children. But more importantly, they can support or undermine the school and the teacher depending on the way that they are trained. I mean, communicated with. Yes. So how can we make sure our parents work…
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Episode 56: Moving back to the classroom
Today, we have Sunee as our superstar guest. Sunee is not just a superstar guest, she is also a superstar young learners guru. Now Sunee is moving back into the classroom to be with her children and abandoning her fantastic role as a teacher trainer, teacher manager and school supervisor. Why on...
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Episode 55: TITM - Here comes the boom
Yort and Evets are lovers of movies. This time, it's a movie about a school, some teachers, and a bunch of amazing students. The basic premise, which they don't waffle about at all, is school corruption. We all hate corrupt schools, don't we? No wait, this is a movie about a good teacher gone bad...
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Episode 54: Your lazy colleague
Do you have colleagues? Are they are nice as Troy? Or are they lazy, rubbish colleagues like Steve? Are they complaining a lot because someone hasn't done their job properly? Is it your fault that the students didn't learn in that other lesson? In this podcast, Steve and Troy waffle, as usual…
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Episode 53: Demanding accuracy
Teacher's sometime forget to do writing tasks in class. Or maybe they don't like doing them because they involvement so much marking. Or maybe they think they aren't important. Anyway, when we do do them, how important is it it it it for the writing to me accurately? If their are mistakes, will…
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Episode 52: Student motivation
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Steve and Troy waffle about the exciting and wonderful world of Teaching English in a foreign country.
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The Non Stop Wafflers
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