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January 21, 2021
A Look Back at 2020 Teaching What It Means for 2021
Researcher Pamela Livingston Gaudet shares her findings
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Yes, 2020 has been a year like no other, and today’s guest, Pamela Livingston Guadet, interviewed a wide variety of school tech directors to hear their stories of triage teaching during the COVID-19 emergency. Today, she shares their wisdom, including the positives, negatives, the things that shocked her, and what her research shows that everyone should know abo...
January 19, 2021
Google Jamboard 2021 with Tom Mullaney
Episode 716
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One of the most popular shows of 2018 was with Tom Mullaney on Google Jamboard so we’ve updated it for 2021! In this show, Tom shows us how teachers are using Google Jamboard, why it is so popular, and how you can use it to teach. Let’s Jam!
How to Make Classroom Games with Easy, Awesome Educaplay
Sixteen types of games, Google Classroom and LMS compatibility and auto-grading
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This week, I began using Educaplay to make fun classroom learning games for my students. In addition to easy game creation, sending the games to Google Classroom was easy, as was student work, automatic grading, and engagement. Many of us who have been teaching online need some variety. Presently, the site has many different types of acti...
January 14, 2021
Virtual Bulletin Boards: How School Counselors Connect with Kids Today
Episode 715 with Emma Tagariello
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School counselors and teachers are working to creatively and authentically connect with students in both face to face, distance, and hybrid environments. Even in face to face, we’re still at a distance. School counselor Emma Tagariello is working to connect with her students using virtual bulletin boards and other technologies. In today’s show, she’s sharing what being a school counse...
January 12, 2021
Learn How to Overcome Your Self Limiting Beliefs
Episode 714 of the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast
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Sometimes our own beliefs can limit our ability in the classroom – these are called self-limiting beliefs. Today’s guest, Dr. Brandon Beck, helps us learn how to face our self-limiting beliefs, appreciate the positive things we have done, and move forward to a brighter future.
November 20, 2020
The Quick, Easy Way I Show Kids Thankfulness
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis
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Thankfulness is a way of life all year long. As a student, however, I think I caught what teachers taught by how they lived their lives. I want to be that person who models everlasting love and joy for every human being I get to know! So, today is such a day! On this day, I like to share with each student in the class why I’m thankful for them. Here is how I do it.
Now, certainly, it is hard to get kids to listen...
November 18, 2020
New Research on Student Engagement Best Practices
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Engagement is such a challenge for schools—now more than ever. Lots of anecdotal evidence is floating around, but right now, we need answers for what produces strong student engagement. We can dig in and find that in some excellent research from the 2020 State of Engagement report. In this blog post, I’ll share my observations and give you links to the report so you can read it for yourself.
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November 17, 2020
How to Engage Students in Zoom and Teach Effectively at a Distance
Aaron Johnson shares the techniques to help us do it better
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Aaron Johnson Shares His Way to Engage Students Even at a Distance
Many of us are learning to traverse between online and in-person learning environments. Our guest Aaron Johnson, author of Online Teaching with Zoom, shares with us how to better engage students through Zoom, so we can all teach effectively at a distance.
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Rather Stand
poem by Vicki Davis
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Rather Stand by Vicki Davis
I’d rather stand alone for the right thing … than be popular for the wrong one.
I’d rather be wise
than smart.
I’d rather find a child’s strength
than point out her weakness.
I’d rather find a child crying
than let him cry alone.
I’d rather encourage a colleague with a great idea
than spread gossip.
I’d rather show a child a great way to live
than give a great lecture.
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November 16, 2020
4 Essential Factors for Student Engagement Based on Current Research
Mariana Aguilar discusses the current research on student engagement
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Mariana Aguilar shares 4 Essential Factors for Student Engagement
Our focus on the frontlines of education is to keep students engaged. We can never get enough ideas on how to help our students stay excited, engaged, and learning. Our guest today Mariana Aguilar is going to share with us four key factors for student engagement that she has come acr...
