The Circular Workflow: Teaching in 2025
Trends in Architecture, Jobs and Employment, Solar Energy Boom Lessons
In 2025, the most powerful teaching materials emerge from the dynamic interaction between classroom experience and technology. It's not about choosing one over the other—it's about creating a seamless partnership where real classroom insights and AI capabilities amplify each other.
My approach follows a proven cycle:
Classroom Experience → Lesson Design → AI Workflow → Refining & Innovating.
This circular process captures what actually happens in the classroom and channels it through intelligent technology to create materials that adapt and evolve with every use.
This process has shaped materials across all proficiency levels. The Jobs and Employment lesson targets high elementary learners with essential workplace vocabulary and interview basics. Trends in Architecture challenges pre-intermediate students with basic vocabulary and design concepts. The Solar Energy Boom unit pushes more advanced learners to tackle complex technical topics and sustainability debates. The lesson design format, based on classroom experience, adapts seamlessly to different topics, student types, class sizes, and ability levels (see the contents of today's lessons downloads in the PDF).
This is where content creation gets powerful—when classroom realities drive the process. Students struggling with interview phrases inspire targeted pronunciation exercises. Confusion about various concepts from the employment, architectural and renewable energy fields spark visual vocabulary sheets. Observations of student needs around career topics transform into practical exercises—including authentic employment and workplace dialogues role plays, critical thinking exercises about future careers and useful language practice.
This circular workflow means materials evolve continuously. What starts as a simple brainstorming activity transforms through classroom testing into comprehensive units with collocations, grammar role-plays, and critical thinking exercises—all refined based on what actually engages students and accelerates their learning.