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Episode 242 Transcript

…Teaching. Are you drowning in endless lesson planning, grading, and trying to keep students engaged? What if you could save 10 to 20 hours every week, while boosting your classroom’s learning experiences with just a few clicks? Brisk Teaching is your AI-powered teaching assistant, designed to make your teaching life easier. With tools like creating personalized feedback, assessing student work, and even elevating student engagement through interactive learning experiences, Brisk Teaching helps you focus on what you do best — teaching. And if you’re looking for a way to spark curiosity in students with fun, engaging, and interactive lessons, their…

10 Ways to Give a Better Lecture

…active like a quick This or That activity, where students move to one side of the room or the other based on their answer to a question. Discussion can be plugged in between lecture segments. In pairs or small groups, students can respond to questions that ask them to reflect, brainstorm, or expand on what’s being presented in the lecture. Student engagement platforms like Nearpod and Pear Deck allow you to add interactive elements into your slideshow and share them with students so they can respond to questions right inside the presentation and you can see their responses on your…

Episode 133: How One Makerspace is Meeting Students’ Social-Emotional Needs

…application in your classroom. You’ll also receive individualized coaching from PCG’s virtual facilitators throughout your course. PCG believes that the learning never ends and they want to help you help your students succeed. Visit cultofpedagogy.com/PCG to find out more and use the code CULT20 to get $20 off your first course. Support also comes from ViewSonic. ViewSonic transforms classrooms into immersive learning environments. Their education solutions drive engagement, energize and motivate students, and make teaching more fun. From ViewBoard interactive displays and myViewBoard digital whiteboarding software to projectors and monitors, ViewSonic’s award-winning solutions are here to help teachers stay connected…

9 Simple Solutions for Common Teaching Problems

…for every class or just mix it all together. 3. Tracking Progress Transparently From Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School The Problem: Traditional grade books provide a very limited picture of a student’s progress, and students have no ownership of tracking their growth. The Solution: Have students keep a record of their own progress in a “transparent” space—a Google doc, for example—where the student, teacher, and parents can view it any time. The information they record will vary depending on student age and subject area, but the document will become more valuable if you require students to go…

Episode 70: How HyperDocs Can Transform the Way You Teach

…a copy of a HyperDoc, the elements can be changed on each to meet individual students’ needs. This idea of putting a lesson together into one package that students can work through on their own has been evolving in different forms in classrooms all over the place. My first introduction to this concept started when I met math teacher Natalie McCutchen, who showed me in Episode 30 how she sets up a system of self-paced learning for her students. In her system, students get chapter guides that they work through on their own. These guides include videos, skills practices, and…

If Equity is a Priority, UDL is a Must

…to learn in different ways, using different materials, and share what they have learned in different ways to reach the same goals. All students can work toward the same firm goals and grade-level standards when provided with adequate challenge and support. All students will become expert learners if barriers are removed and they are given opportunities to self-differentiate. Belief 1: Variability Variability is the unique mix of skills, interests, needs, and preferences each and every learner brings to the classroom. Variability goes beyond differences between students and explores differences within students, based on context. Because of variability, what students need…

6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2022

…and empathy. The lessons are gamified, putting students into simulated situations where they need to make decisions based on the concepts they are learning, and this keeps students engaged. Teachers are given analytics on student engagement and performance, so this is an ideal tool for use in remote and hybrid learning. What’s great about the courses at EVERFI is that they hit on topics we often say should be taught in schools, but don’t often actually find in our curriculum. These lessons could be used in advisory periods, life skills classes, or as enrichment or independent study. Keep an eye…

Connecting Students in a Disconnected World

…roles to students. At the bare minimum, designate a group leader to start the discussion and keep everyone on task; this will prevent students from going into the rooms and waiting for someone to start. Other students could be assigned to keep track of time, share their screen so everyone can look at a shared document or other online project, and report the group’s findings after returning to the larger meeting room. Several teachers mentioned that students prefer having the teacher assign the roles, rather than having students do it. Clarify what the roles actually mean ahead of time; different…

Building Better Collaboration Between Families and Schools

…is an educator and the author of Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations: Elevating Home Experiences and Classroom Practices for Collective Care. In a book that is both practical and beautiful, she lays out a pathway for how schools can make more authentic connections with the people in students’ lives outside of school. Even more than connections — how we can truly collaborate with families to educate our students by elevating the natural learning that happens at home and making our work in school more relevant to students’ home lives. Nawal Qarooni I have a long list of education books waiting to be…