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Michelle Ocriciano

Michelle Ocriciano was a blogger for English teaching professional for 2.5 years, writing her final post for us in December 2021. During her time as a blogger for ETp, she wrote 25 posts which reflect her experiences being in ELT for over 20 years, and the different hats she's worn as a teacher, teacher trainer, academic manager, learning and teaching consultant, and researcher. Her posts encourage reflection, discussion of controversial and topical teaching issues and evaluation of evidence/learning from other fields of education to better inform our teaching. Michelle holds a BA in Linguistics, a BEd Secondary, a BA in Pedagogy and an MA in Applied Linguistics. She is currently a PhD candidate and EAP teacher at the University of Queensland in sunny Brisbane, Australia. She is also a registered counsellor focused on student support and anxiety reduction.

Backwards design for course and school (re)development

Backwards Design seems to be everywhere now. But what does it mean? It’s becoming clear it is not a philosophy of teaching nor an approach to teaching – it is a planning framework. Read on to find out more and what it means for us as teachers, and our teaching.

Online assessment

Writing assessments is usually a challenging task. This can be especially true when it comes to online assessments in language learning. In this blogpost, Michelle discusses how online assessments shouldn't be the same as traditional face-to-face ones.

Multiliteracy and multimodality

What do we mean by multiliteracy? How can multimodality help us get a message across? In this blogpost, Michelle Ocriciano provides a simple definition of literacy, explores the concept of multiliteracy and multimodality and wraps up by talking about the international literacy day.

Assessing your professional development as you teach live online

We have never talked as much about online teaching as we have in recent times! But how do you organise your learning around your technology use? Read on to learn about TPACKS, how it defines the role of technology in teaching and what learning you can add to MyCPD.

Anxiety in the language classroom

Have you noticed that people are becoming more anxious around you? Are you getting the same sense from your learners? How can you help them? This blogpost discusses how student anxiety seems to getting more common and how your learners might feel, whilst giving tips about what can be done to reduce such anxiety.
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