PIE SIG Podcast
This podcast explores the benefits of using performance related approaches and activities in the classroom and the lives of the people who use them.
PIE SIG Podcast
Latest Episodes
Season 2, Episode 2: Speech Contests in Japan: The Good, the Bad, and the Salvageable feat. Educator & Editor Philip Head
AI is usually cast as the villain in education stories.Educator and editor Philip Head sees things differently. In this episode he explains how artificial intelligence could actually level the playing field in...
Season 2, Episode 1: Building Spontaneous Communication Through Improv feat. Educator & Podcaster David Gray
Do your students sound fluent in rehearsal but freeze up in unscripted situations?In this opening episode of Season 2, veteran Canadian educator David Gray makes the case for improvisation as a powerful...
Episode 12: Why Settle for Student Participation When You Can Have Student Engagement? feat. Mari Nakamura
Episode 12: Why Settle for Participation When You Can Have Real Engagement? Episode Summary Educator and entrepreneur, Mari Nakamura, joins Darren to share her personal journey in English language teaching. Through eng...
Episode 11: By the way…You’re Teaching Drama Now, feat. Educator Gordon Rees
Associate Professor Gordon Rees recounts the moment when he suddenly had to take over a drama class at his university after the teacher suddenly left their position. Uncertain how to teach such a course, he joined the PIE SIG to get some...
Episode 10: CALL X PIE feat. JALTCALL SIG President Brian Gallagher
Are CALL and PIE Compatible?When should we embrace computer technology… and when does it make more sense to use pen and paper?Can students use AI without losing their creativity and humanity?In Part 1 o...
Fan Mail
I've just finished listening to this wonderful interview of Professor David Gray of Shinshu University. I'm an ESL teacher myself. I'm in my 46th year of ESL teaching. 15 of them were in Japan. I think Professor Gray describes the method very clearly and effectively. And I agree that there's great potential there. I hope a lot of teachers will listen to this excellent interview and that it will have a positive impact on their teaching. Good job, everybody.