{"id":5538,"date":"2013-05-19T18:22:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T18:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltchat.org\/wordpress\/?p=5538"},"modified":"2013-05-19T18:22:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T18:22:11","slug":"topics-for-eltchat-on-may-22nd-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltchat.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/19\/topics-for-eltchat-on-may-22nd-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Topics for #ELTchat on May 22nd 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>First Chat \u00a0&#8211; 12 P.M. BST \u00a0 Second Chat 21 P.M. BST<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-size: 52px;\">Getting off that Intermediate Plateau;<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"font-size: 52px;\"> Classroom Ideas<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It all started with this great slide presentation which got many #ELTchatters thinking about themselves reaching a plateau; how they often feel stuck and need to find ways to get out of it, whether they feel stuck and unispired in their jobs, or following a course of study, such as a DELTA or MA and they have reached that dreaded stage!!!!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px 1px 0; margin-bottom: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/20365389\" height=\"356\" width=\"427\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\"><a title=\"The Plateau Effect: Why People Get Stuck...and How to Break Through\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ThePlateauEffect\/the-plateaueffect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Plateau Effect: Why People Get Stuck&#8230;and How to Break Through<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ThePlateauEffect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ThePlateauEffect<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">Then this theme reminded us of Katy Davies&#8217; presentation at IATEFL on the famous intermediate plateau.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">Have a look at Katy&#8217;s prezi below and read<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/eltplustech.blogspot.ae\/2013\/04\/the-intermediate-plateau-katy-davies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jo Sayer&#8217;s summary of her talk <\/a><\/strong>and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lessonsfrommystudents.wordpress.com\/tag\/iatefl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Katy&#8217;s own blog post about it<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/prezi.com\/embed\/qb1eqctb2f4-\/?bgcolor=ffffff&amp;lock_to_path=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;autohide_ctrls=0&amp;features=undefined&amp;disabled_features=undefined\" height=\"300\" width=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During this second #ELTchat, we hope to share ideas of how to approach teaching intermediate learners so we can get them off that intermediate plateau and help them become advanced learners!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Chat \u00a0&#8211; 12 P.M. BST \u00a0 Second Chat 21 P.M. BST &nbsp; Getting off that Intermediate Plateau; Classroom Ideas &nbsp; It all started with this great slide presentation which got many #ELTchatters thinking about themselves reaching a plateau; how they often feel stuck and need to find ways to get out of it, whether&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/eltchat.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/19\/topics-for-eltchat-on-may-22nd-2013\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-propose-a-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eltchat.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eltchat.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eltchat.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eltchat.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eltchat.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eltchat.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eltchat.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eltchat.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eltchat.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}