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.

Hey! How are you? Teacher wellbeing in the New Year

2016-02-23

Language teaching is a particularly demanding subject and can drain teachers emotionally. Teachers are often concerned about students’ wellbeing, but tend to neglect their own. After the holidays in December, January is often seen as a good time to reflect, make some New Year’s resolutions and map out the year ahead or new term. So, if one of your resolutions is to take better care of yourself (or should be!), read Michelle Ocriciano’s straightforward tips on how to improve teachers’ wellbeing.

But teacher, English here is different, right?

2015-12-04

When Michelle Ocriciano first moved to Australia she realized that her students kept saying ‘But English here is very different, right?’. Find out about different varieties of English, and its use as a lingua franca, and enjoy all the resources!

Procrastination, laziness and trauma-informed teaching

2015-11-25

As remote teaching becomes the new norm, we may be shifting our attention from how to use technology to teach online to what we are teaching and how students are responding to it. Not following deadlines or completing tasks can be closely related to the collective trauma the world is facing right now.

The Native teacher and advertising

2015-09-22

As we go back to the new normal, schools are starting to think about ways to increase their number of students. An unfortunate and unethical way of doing it is by advertising their "Native English teachers”. Read on and find out a better way to advertise courses with product differentiation and design thinking.

F for Feedback and E for Empathy

2015-09-03

I only truly understood the importance of feedback and counselling when I started teaching IELTS classes. Some learners would panic, even cry, during their speaking practice, so I knew I had to provide something more than just corrective feedback …

Michelle Ocriciano

Hey! How are you? Teacher wellbeing in the New Year

But teacher, English here is different, right?

Procrastination, laziness and trauma-informed teaching

The Native teacher and advertising

F for Feedback and E for Empathy

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