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The Motivated Classroom with Dr. Liam Printer

Educational Consultant, Author, Researcher

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I offer training, professional development and consultancy through on-site workshops and also remotely via online learning platforms. All training and consultancy is tailored to the needs of the participants and your organisation. Click on the links below for more information:

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A variety of online and in-person workshops are delivered throughout the year, typically on a weekend in the afternoon. Click below to read more about current workshops that are being run in the coming months. These workshops are practical and evidence-based. As part of these workshops, attendees are “students in my class” and will experience learning a new language through a comprehensible input and motivation-driven approach.

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i’m Dr. Liam Printer

I’m Dr. Liam Printer and I host ‘The Motivated Classroom Podcast’ talking all things education, languages, teaching and motivation.

My educational consultancy work and conference presentations focus on my research around motivation, self-determination and comprehensible input approaches to language learning and teaching.

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The Motivated Classroom

A podcast for language teachers and learners hosted by Dr. Liam Printer talking all things education, languages, motivation and engagement; linking current educational research to your classroom practice and providing a few ideas for some easy to implement, zero-prep, motivational strategies you can try out right away!

Join the conversation on social media using #MotivatedClassroom. I’d love to know what you think so please get in touch.

Full programme notes available on
www.liamprinter.com/podcast

In this episode I am joined by the wonderful, Jonathan McBride, for Part one of a two-part special series. Jonny and I met at The Agen Workshop in 2023. He teaches German and French in a state school in Scotland and he secured funding to go and spend six weeks watching three different CI teachers in three different countries in 2024: Me (Liam Printer) in Switzerland, Adriana Ramirez in Canada and finally, Tina Abour in Germany.

The goal was to learn from what other CI teachers are doing in three very different schools in three very different systems, and to then report back to the Scottish government and education department about what he saw and learned.

In this first part of our two-part series, Jonny had just spent two weeks with me in Switzerland after already doing two weeks with Adriana in Canada. He shares what he say, what he learned and most importantly, what he hopes to take back to his classroom in Scotland. Part two of this series follows up with Jonny approximately 9 months later, after coming back from Germany and spending almost a year implementing the ideas he had observed.

A truly fascinating journey and a must listen for language teachers all over the world!