Episode 67: Developod Episode 67 - Keeping the ELT passion alive & adding visual sparkle with Emily Bryson

About this episode

Helen and Emily discuss the importance of creativity in ELT and Emily's experiences as a digital nomad and educator.

In this episode, Helen and Emily discuss her eclectic career, including teaching, teacher training, authoring books like Voices for National Geographic Learning, running online courses, and creating doodle and sketchnote visual resources. Emily describes teaching ESOL learners from refugee backgrounds and embraces a nomad lifestyle, traveling while working remotely. She highlights persistent issues in ELT like native speakerism and lack of LGBTQ+ representation, though she notes growing awareness of diverse Englishes and localisation in teaching materials. Looking ahead, Emily will continue visual recording and write about her digital nomad experiences. Emily emphasises how supportive the ELT community is and encourages us to: embrace creativity and messiness in teaching and learning, network and take opportunities, and feel the fear, turn off your inner troll, and draw anyway! Emily’s website: www.EmilyBrysonELT.com www.EmilyBrysonELT.com/freebies/ www.EmilyBrysonELT.com/all-courses/ www.EmilyBrysonELT.com/resources/ Contact Emily via LinkedIn or Instagram and Facebook @emilybrysonelt or via her website www.EmilyBrysonELT.com/contact In this episode, Emily references: Voices…

People in this episode

Host: Helen

Guest: Emily Bryson

Topics covered

• ELT passion
• visual resources
• teacher training
• native speakerism
• LGBTQ+ representation
• digital nomad lifestyle

Keywords

• doodle
• sketchnote
• Voices for National Geographic Learning
• online courses
• ESOL learners
• diverse Englishes
• localisation

Mentioned in this episode

Products: ELT, ESOL, Voices for National Geographic Learning, doodle resources, sketchnote resources

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