Diana Bauducco

A spotlight on using NeuroBreaks to reset the language-learning brain Price: FREE  Date: Tuesday 27th October  Speaker: Diana Bauducco Time: 4-5 pm (London time) Not able to join us live on the day? Everyone who signs up will also receive the webinar recording  There's a moment in almost every lesson when the energy drains out of the room, not because the activity was boring, but because the brain has simply run out of runway. Language learning places an exceptionally high cognitive load on students, leading to rapid working memory saturation and heightened anxiety. Rather than a discipline or motivation issue, this drop in...

Think about that moment that happens in many classes: that moment when it seems the students’ energy and concentration have gone out the window. The class was well planned, the activities were interesting, engaging and even fun; but then comes that moment when the students seem to have tuned out or stopped participating in the same way. This is a common problem that has nothing to do with discipline or motivation: it is something more biological, more primal, having to do with what our students’ brains are capable of doing. ‘NeuroBreaks’ can be the solution to this common ailment. What...

Love it, hate it. Rely on it, ignore it. Explore it, avoid it. Ask it everything, block it instantly. Let it help you, swear it’s plotting against you. Whether you like it or not, artificial intelligence (AI) is here to stay. Maybe the dichotomy that matters is whether we welcome it or we fear it, but fear what? AI is not going to replace you as a teacher and there are plenty of reasons why it won’t. In 2025 and 2026, UNESCO launched the global ‘Teachers cannot be coded’ campaign, stating that while AI reshapes education, it cannot replicate the...

Receiving an entrance ticket for an event fills you with expectation, with mystery, with the desire to know what is going to happen. Well, how would you feel if you were given an exit ticket, necessary to leave that event or a class? You might feel that you finished something, that you managed to complete it and almost surely this would fill you with satisfaction, a feeling of being valued and maybe even a wish to come back. Well, let’s apply this to the classroom. The use of exit tickets in education is a simple and brief activity that can...

We teachers love the internet. It offers us everything, or almost everything, we need for our classes. Strategies, tips, organisational tools, games and, of course, materials. Getting a lesson for an intermediate class to practise listening on the topic of jobs is as simple as typing ‘Lesson plan B1 jobs listening’ and clicking on the first PDF links we see to have materials ready for the class that we have in half an hour. Of course, this is an oversimplification of what happens, but it’s not far from the daily reality that many of us can identify with. However, like...

Diana Bauducco looks at how insights from the world of marketing can be applied to our classrooms, so that we cater better for a new generation of language learners.

Diana Bauducco offers a long list of activities aimed at improving your students’ critical thinking skills.

Diana Bauducco examines Cognitive Load Theory, and identifies how it can be used to determine and implement the most effective strategies for brain-friendly learning in the ELT classroom.