1. Thanks to Artur Taevere for this one: I mentioned to him that I wasn’t quite sure what instructional coaching was last week, and he suggested this introduction, A Beginner’s Guide to Instructional Coaching by Peps Mccrea https://steplab.co/resources/papers/BP6w3bcs/A-Beginners-Guide-to-Instructional-Coaching PDF below.

2. Here’s Die Zeit’s English language podcast, English, please! The titles of the episodes are largely in German, but the contents are reassuringly clearly enunciated English https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/zeit-sprachen-english-please/id1735517072

I reckon most people will be able to work out what episodes such as ‘Is football coming home? Über die Hoffnung englischer Fußballfans’, ‘Im Zug nach London mit einem irischen Krimi im Gepäck’ or ‘Geraubte Kunst – Wem gehört das koloniale Erbe des britischen Empires?’ are about!

3. There’s a TeachingEnglish mini-event next Wednesday, June 19^th – Breaking down barriers, three practical webinars and a panel discussion from educators specialising in equality, diversity and inclusion in ELT to help you make your classroom more inclusive.

Registration and more info here https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/news-and-events/webinars/webinars-teachers/breaking-down-barriers-mini-event

4. What are the highest paying degrees? is a blog post from FutureLearn which tells you which degrees give you the best chance of earning a high salary once you’ve graduated in the UK https://www.futurelearn.com/info/blog/highest-paying-degrees

Before you take a look, which degree comes out top of the pile, do you think?

5. And, finally and very embarrassingly for some, a recent piece from Retraction Watch, How a widely used ranking system ended up with three fake journals in its top 10 philosophy list https://retractionwatch.com/2024/06/12/how-a-widely-used-ranking-system-ended-up-with-three-fake-journals-in-its-top-10-philosophy-list/