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Atomic Classroom Habits: Conference Slides

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I had the pleasure of speaking at the Innovate ELT conference at Oxford House Barcelona this past weekend. It was great to connect with so many other ELT professionals and see so many inspiring talks.

My talk was entitled “Atomic Classroom Habits” and its aim was to try to adapt the framework for habit formation outlined in James Clear’s Atomic Habits to language learning.

Below you will find a PDF of my slides from the talk. Over the next few days I will be posting more of the materials I mentioned during the session.

As I mentioned during the talk, I feel like I’m only just beginning to explore the potential for applying habit formation techniques to the world of ELT and I’m keen to receive feedback or collaborate with likeminded people. So feel free to get in touch either through the comments or via Linkedin.

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Innovate ELT 2023 – May 20th & 21st

Come to Innovate ELT at Oxford House in Barcelona! It’s always one of the best ELT conferences because of the combination of inspiring talks, a beautiful setting and a commitment to fostering a welcoming and supportive atmosphere for networking.

I’ll be giving a talk on Saturday May 20th from 18:30-19:15 entitled “Atomic Classroom Habits”. The aim of the talk is to examine how we can apply theories of habit formation from James Clear’s bestselling book “Atomic Habits” to the ESL classroom.

There are loads of other great talks by a range of inspiring speakers such as Scott Thornbury, Teresa Bestwick, Geoff Jordan and many more!

Follow this link to find out more information about the conference and this one to buy your tickets!

You can also follow Oxford House and the Innovate ELT conference on all the socials. Have a click around to check out lots of videos about the theme of the conference and the various speakers:

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Hopefully see you in the beautiful Oxford House garden!

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2Ts in a Pod Episode 8: Innovate ELT Conference

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This is our 8th episode of 2Ts in a Pod and our first exclusively for teachers. Katy and I attended the Innovate ELT conference at Oxford House in Barcelona where we interviewed speakers and organisers and generally had a lovely time. Check out the episode below, you’ll find the timings of the different interviews further down along with links to the various blogs and projects of the different interviewees. Thanks a lot to Oxford House and ELT Jam for having us!

Jo Sayers – 8.00-25.00
Scott Thornbury – 26.30-30.30
Dirk Lagerward – 33.00-42.00
Shaun Sweeney – 44.00-49.30
Ollie Wood and Mary Whiteside – 51.30-58.30
Nicola Meldrum – 59.30 – 63.30
Melody Phillip – 65.00 – 76.00

Learn more about ELTJam and Oxford TEFL at their websites:
eltjam.com/
oxfordhousebcn.com/en/

Check out Scott Thornbury’s brilliant blog “An A-Z of ELT”
scottthornbury.wordpress.com/

Subscribe to Dirk Lagerwaard’s excellent Vlog “NovELTies”:
www.youtube.com/channel/UCaRobWmFB_TLkqGM8Dg3IRQ

More food for thought at Shaun Sweeney’s blog below:
teacherdevelopmentlab.wordpress.com/

Find the free course on using online games in ELT that Mary and Ollie talked about by following the link below:
eltjam.academy/p/example

Follow the link below to explore Nicola Meldrum and Mark Mckinnon’s blog on teaching pronunciation:
teachpronunciation.blog/about/

Check out Melody Philip’s blog “Seahorse English”:
seahorseenglish.wordpress.com/author/sea…seenglish/

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2Ts in a Pod at Innovate ELT

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2Ts in a Pod is coming to Innovate ELT at Oxford House in Barcelona on May 11th & 12th and you can join us there at a discounted price using the offer code ‘2TSINAPOD20’ when you buy your ticket from the link below:
 
 
We’ll be doing the rounds interviewing speakers and attendees. Take a look at the lineup, who are you most excited to see?