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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.

Putting on your own (online) event

In this blog post, Michelle Ocriciano reflects on her conference experience to date before moving on to give some suggestions on set up an online or local event for groups of teachers or a school thinking of holding one of their own.

Do we really need to be that resilient?

Have you ever been told to be (more) resilient? What does it mean anyway? Although some might say resilience is the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, read this week’s blog post to discover a new way of looking into resilience.

Changes and the postmethod

What methods do you use when teaching English? Why do you do this or that activity? What’s its purpose? These are questions we may ask ourselves, if we had the time to do so. So, how can we adjust? This post sheds light on these questions and much more.

ADHD in the classroom

How much do you know about SEND? Do any of your students have ADHD? In this post, Michelle reveals more about the disorder, which is considered to be the most common neuropsychiatric condition in children, and its common characteristics, before looking at how you can help those learners in the classroom.

Shedding light on the mystery of how students learn

When Michelle Ocriciano (one of our new bloggers for English Teaching Professional) started teaching, she had a 5-year degree in Linguistics and teaching, and thought she could conquer the world. She felt that she basically knew two things very well: 1) language teaching is social and 2) knowledge of how language works is essential. But the fact is that she still had many questions, and the more she taught, the more those questions bothered her. Read on to find out what Michelle discovered about the way students really learn.
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