Learning about how important the informal conversations that not only we have with students, but that students have with each other, was extremely mind opening. Learning how teachers, specifically the one who spoke in this podcast, can grow vocabulary informally but just conversing with their students. I think sometimes it feels, and is difficult, to have those informal conversations that allow us to sneak in new words or different words. The days feel fast with so much to teach and get in, but even the example she gave by finding synonyms for walking or talking are ways that we can slowly start to informally grow their vocabulary.
