Teaching Languages Today | How to Let Go of Control in the Classroom (feat. Susana Matos-Kruck)

We all know it. When teaching a language, active learning strategies are far more effective for our students than passive ones. So why do we so often find ourselves in a passive classroom rut?! The answer has to do with control. And it turns out, the fix is a LOT simpler than you might think! In this episode, your host Emily Sabo (linguist, PhD) sits down with Susana Matos-Kruck, a former teacher and principal from New Jersey who now runs an educational consulting firm (Up the Bar) for schools looking to improve their approaches to language acquisition. Get ready - because this episode is full of fun, new activities to try with your students, and it’ll leave you thinking about active learning in a whole new way! 

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Teaching languages today is as exciting as it is challenging! That’s why we here at Mango Languages created “Teaching Languages Today”, a conversational podcast for world language educators that gets to the bottom of what’s working – and what’s not. Listen in for the problems fellow teachers are facing, learn what solutions they’ve found – and get some much-needed self-care reminders of why you fell in love with language teaching to begin with. Your host for the show is language teacher and linguistics researcher Emily Sabo (PhD). In each episode, we’ll learn to see World Language Ed through a new lens, by sitting down with an all-star lineup of teachers, administrators, and students. It’s our hope that the stories you hear in “Teaching Languages Today” will get you thinking – and feeling – differently about what you do in the classroom.