Tag: James Clear

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Webinar – Atomic Classroom Habits: Wednesday 8th May 2024

Posted on by Tim Warre

I’m doing a slightly shorter version of my Atomic Classroom Habits webinar on Wednesday 8th May 2024 in collaboration with Learn Your English.

The session will take place at 12:00 EST, that’s 18:00 in Spain. It will last around 35-40 minutes with time after for a Q&A.

Here’s the blurb:

In James Clear’s 2018 book “Atomic Habits” the writer discusses the power of making small 1% improvements to our daily habits and how these incremental changes can have long-lasting compounding effects.

This talk will look at ways we can apply this principle and theories of habit formation in general to a classroom setting.

Attendees will leave this talk with practical ideas and tweaks they can make in their own classes, as well as a longer-term framework for putting their students on a path to more effective and rewarding language acquisition.

Register for the session by following this link. Hope to see you there!

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Atomic Classroom Habits at Jornades Multilingües EIM-UB

Posted on by Tim Warre

Happy New Year everyone! I have exciting news for any Barcelona-based teachers. I will be giving my “Atomic Classroom Habits” talk, based on James Clear’s book “Atomic Habits”, at the Jornades Multilingües EIM-UB at the University of Barcelona on Saturday 20th January.

Follow this link to take a look at the programme. It’s a whole day (9-15h) of professional development workshops and talks delivered in a range of languages, all for only €15! So if you’re in the area, check it out!

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Atomic Classroom Habits: Conference Slides

Posted on by Tim Warre
Image credit: Oxford House Barcelona

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.

Atomic-Classroom-HabitsDownload

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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No Word is an Island – Advanced English Podcast

Posted on by Tim Warre

Last week I had the pleasure of appearing on Sean Hutchman’s brilliant podcast No Word is an Island. The show is aimed at advanced English learners (and their teachers). We discussed James Clear’s brilliant book Atomic Habits and my experiences trying to put some of the techniques and strategies into practice. We also explored ways to apply some of Clear’s ideas to our classes and students to help them become more effective learners, as well as touching on many other interesting topics. Check out the episode and video below:

https://betterlanguagelearning.com/episode-15/