Grow: A podcast from Cambridge

Join English language teachers around the world as they welcome you into their classrooms and share their inspiring stories and advice to enhance your teaching skills.

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Making space for everyone in the classroom with Sarah-Ann Elizabeth Brown - Episode 32

Today we’re bringing you another episode from the city of Vũng Tàu in Vietnam.

Host, Uyen Pham sits down with Sarah-Ann Elizabeth Brown, to explore what it really takes to help every child feel seen, valued and confident in the English classroom.

After moving from South Africa to Vietnam, Sarah-Ann shares how teaching abroad has reshaped her career, her classroom and even how she sees the world. She explains how resilience, patience and compassion guides her work with young learners.

Building confidence lesson by lesson with Douglas Deer - Episode 31

Welcome back to another episode of Grow: A podcast from Cambridge where today Joel Cutting sits down with Douglas Deer, a newly qualified teacher in London. Douglas shares the tools and techniques that are already making a difference in his practice - from pre-teaching vocabulary and effective Concept Checking Questions, to managing work-life balance and drawing on colleague support. You’ll also hear from Cecília Lemos Harmer & Matt Ellman from the Professional Learning and Development team at Cambridge with a top tip on how to bring the Cambridge Life Competencies Framework into the language classroom.

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Do you have a question about English language teaching? Record an audio message with your question and email it to growpodcast@cambridge.org and you could feature in a future episode of Grow!