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The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast
Jennifer Gonzalez
Smash Notes has 40 notes from 4 episodes of The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast. Each note answers one question with the moment it was said, so you can read it or play just that part. Topics: Education, K-12.
Teaching strategies, classroom management, education reform, educational technology -- if it has something to do with teaching, we're talking about it. Jennifer Gonzalez interviews educators, students, administrators and parents about the psychological and social dynamics of…
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- 01How Can Professors Help Students Understand Content65: Five Ways College Teachers Can Improve Their Instruction
- 02What Does Norman Eng Say Students Need Before They Can Understand a Concept?65: Five Ways College Teachers Can Improve Their Instruction
- 03How Do You Help a Student Who Does Not Know the Answer65: Five Ways College Teachers Can Improve Their Instruction
- 04What Is the Concept of Cold-calling in the Classroom65: Five Ways College Teachers Can Improve Their Instruction
- 05What Should College Teachers Ask on the First Day?65: Five Ways College Teachers Can Improve Their Instruction
- 06What Is the Job of a Teacher65: Five Ways College Teachers Can Improve Their Instruction
- 07What Happens When Teachers Make Flippant Remarks?9: How to Connect with Your Students
- 08How Does James Sturtevant Say a Teacher Becomes Familiar to Students?9: How to Connect with Your Students
- 09How Did James Sturtevant Understand Unmotivated Students?9: How to Connect with Your Students
- 10How Does a Teacher's Background Impact Their Ability to Relate to Students9: How to Connect with Your Students
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69: Three Surprising Reasons Students Don't Get into Top Colleges
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- EduTip 17: Repeat audience questions.
- 196: Four Models for Doing Blended Learning in Your Classroom
- 195: Five Fantastic Ideas for Collaboration Projects
- EduTip 16: Do a smooth first read.
- 194: Finding the Funk: 3 Ways to Add Culturally Responsive Critical Thinking to Your Lessons
- EduTip 15: Set aside time to set norms.
- 193: Creating Language-Affirming Classrooms for Code-Switching Students
- EduTip 14: Find teachable moments in the downtime.
- 192: How to Use Backward Chaining to Differentiate Instruction
- EduTip 13: Add novelty to boost learning.
- 191: in Support of Trans Athlete Inclusion in Women's Sports
- 190: Why so many teachers are leaving, and why others stay.
- EduTip 12: Model EVERYTHING.
- 189: Eight Principles for Supporting Students with ADHD
- EduTip 11: Replace general praise with something specific.
- 188: Uncovering Your Blind Spots: an Exercise for Teachers
- EduTip 10: Use music to buffer "silent" activities.
- 187: Contrasting Cases: a Simple Strategy for Deep Understanding
- EduTip 9: Use an antiseptic bounce to prevent off-task behavior.
- 186: Using Gallery Walks for Peer Feedback
- 185: How Teachers Can Support Arab-American Students
- 184: Lessons that Build Students' Media and News Literacy
- EduTip 8: Don't take anything personally.
- 183: Six Tech Tools to Try in 2022
- EduTip 7: Stop popcorn reading.
- 182: Eight Ways to Grow Students' Vocabulary
- EduTip 6: Try a tiered activity for simple differentiation.
- 181: Teachers are being silenced. What can be done about it?
- EduTip 5: Use huddles to communicate during group work.
- 180: Make Units More Inspiring with Vision Boards
- EduTip 4: Hold off on most feedback until AFTER a task is done.
- 179: Teachers are barely hanging on. Here's what they need.
- EduTip3: Distract the Distractor
- 178: Street Data: A Pathway Toward Equitable, Anti-Racist Schools
- EduTip2: Don't yell at another teacher's class.
- 177: How to Find, Read, and Use Academic Research
- EduTip 1: Don't make them read and listen at the same time.
- 176: Suicide Prevention: What Teachers Can Do
- 175: Introducing the HyperRubric
- 174: Why You Should Bring Podcasts Into Your Classroom
- 173: How ELA and Special Ed Collaboration Can Produce Great Student Writing
- 172: the Importance of Maslow's Fourth Tier
- 171: Does Your School Need a Literacy Check-up?
- 170: No More Easy Button: A Suggested Approach to Post-Pandemic Teaching
- 169: Revolution School: When "Reimagining School" Actually Happens
- 168: Mistake Analysis
- 167: How to Co-Construct Success Criteria with Students
- 166: UDL as a Key to Equity
- 165: Setting Up Mastery-Based Grading in Your Classroom
- 164: the Elegance of the Gray Area
- 163: It's Time to Give Classroom Jobs Another Try
- 163: It's Time to Give Classroom Jobs Another Try
- 162: Up-Down-Both-Why: A Feeling-Based Approach to Literature
- 161: Six Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2021
- 160: Fire Up Your Students with a Campaign Unit
- 159: Connecting Students in a Disconnected World
- 158: How to Create a Self-Paced Classroom
- 157: What's Possible with Green Screens in the Classroom
- 156: Subversion: an Essential Tool of the Master Teacher
- 155: How to Teach When Everyone's Scattered
- 154: Hexagonal Thinking: a Colorful Tool for Discussion
- 153: Four Laws of Learning
- 152: Creating Moments of Genuine Connection Online
- 151: Historically Responsive Literacy: An Equity-Centered Approach to Curriculum
- 150: a Few Creative Ways to Use Student Blogs
- 149: Nine Ways Online Teaching Should Be Different from Face-to-Face
- 148: Backward Design: the Basics
- 147: Why White Students Need Multicultural and Social Justice Education
- 146: Reopening School: What it Might Look Like
- 145: Flash Feedback: More Meaningful Feedback in Less Time
- 144: Making Great Screencast Videos
- 143: To Teach Social-Emotional Learning, Start with Yourself
- 142: Distance Learning: a Collection of Resources for Teachers
- 141: Getting Rid of "I Don't Know" in Your Classroom
- 140: Nine Ways to be More Inclusive of Diverse Students
- 139: How to Create a Project Based Learning Lesson
- 138: Making Cooperative Learning Work Better
- 137: How Afterschool Staff Can Take Your Class to the Next Level
- 136: Six Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2020
- 135: the Time I Made a Fart Sound During a Test
- 134: Repairing Harm: a Better Alternative to Punishment
- 133: How One Makerspace is Meeting Students' Social-Emotional Needs
- 132: How to Spot Dyslexia, and What to Do Next
- 131: How World Language Teaching Has Evolved
- 130: Tips for Starting a Podcast
- 129: Let's Make Better Slideshows
- 128: When You Get Nothing but Crickets
- 127: A Few Ideas for Dealing with Late Work
- 126: Student-Created Graphic Novels
- 125: Think Twice Before Doing Another Historical Simulation
- 124: a Closer Look at Open Educational Resources
- 123: Four Research-Based Strategies All Teachers Should Be Using
- 122: A Simple Trick for Success with One-Pagers
- 121: Is that Higher-Order Task Really Higher Order?
- 120: How One District Learned to Talk About Race
- 119: "We're a Family" and Other School Norms that Can Cause Burnout
- 118: to Boost Learning, Just Add Movement
- 117: Five Ways to Improve Your Rubrics
- 116: Mastery Learning with Khan Academy
- 115: Time to Take a Look at Your Dress Code
- 114: Let's Give Our Teaching Language a Makeover
- 113: Global School Play Day: One Day. Nothing but Play.
- 112: Six Tech Tools to Try in 2019
- 111: Teaching Note-Taking with Stations
- 110: Ten Ways Educators Can Take Action in Pursuit of Equity
- 109: Get Students Talking with Ongoing Conversations
- 108: To Learn, Students Need to DO Something
- 107: the Best Ways to Use Leveled Texts
- 107: the Best Ways to Use Leveled Texts
- 107: the Best Ways to Use Leveled Texts
- 106: the Danger of Teacher Nostalgia
- 105: Voice of Witness: Bring the Power of Oral History to Your Classroom
- 104: What the Research Says About Note-Taking
- 103: Deeper Class Discussions with the TQE Method
- 102: a Look Inside a Teacher Fellowship Program
- 101: A Step-by-Step Plan for Teaching Narrative Writing
- 100: Lessons in Personhood
- 99: Quality-Check Your Tech: 6 Strategies
- 98: Improving the Way We Teach About Slavery
- 97: the Principal's Pet: a Cautionary Tale
- 96: What's the Point of a Makerspace?
- 95: Twelve Ways Teachers Can Build Their Emotional Resilience
- 94: How accurate are your grades?
- 93: Eight Things I Know for Sure About Middle School Kids
- 92: Frickin' Packets
- 91: Twelve Ways to Upgrade Your Classroom Design
- 90: OMG Becky. PD is Getting SO MUCH BETTER.
- 90: OMG Becky. PD has gotten SO MUCH BETTER.
- 89: Restorative Justice in School: an Overview
- 88: Are you a curator or a dumper?
- 87: Moving from Feedback to Feedforward
- 86: Six Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2018
- 85: the Magic of Validation
- 84: How to Stop Killing the Love of Reading w/Pernille Ripp
- 83: What is an Innovation Class?
- 82: Making School a Safe Place for LGBTQ Students
- 81: the Great and Powerful Graphic Organizer
- 80: When Students Won't Stop Talking
- 79: Retrieval Practice: the Most Powerful Learning Strategy You're Not Using
- 78: Four Misconceptions About Culturally Responsive Teaching
- 77: What Teachers Want Administrators to Know
- 76: When Your School is Short on Tech
- 75: Making the Most of a 90-Minute Block Class
- 74: How to Deal with Student Grammar Errors
- 73: How One Teacher Started an Urban Gardening Revolution
- 72: What is an educator mastermind, and why should you join one?
- 71: Why It's So Hard for Teachers to Take Care of Themselves
- 70: How HyperDocs Can Transform Your Teaching
- 68: Twelve Ways to Support English Learners in the Mainstream Classroom
- 67: What to Do on Lame Duck School Days
- 66: Why Curation Should be Your Next Class Project
- 64: Four Ways Teachers Can Support Students of Color
- 63: Teaching Students to Avoid Plagiarism
- 62: 21st Century Learning at the Apollo School
- 61: Seven Systems that Work for Outside-the-Box Learners
- 60: Six Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2017
- 59: Runaway Youth: How Teachers Can Help
- 58: Six Powerful Learning Strategies You MUST Share with Students
- 57: Nine Simple Solutions for Common Teaching Problems
- 56: Creating a Welcoming Classroom for Special Ed Students
- 55: Your Top 10 Genius Hour Questions Answered
- 54: Is Your Lesson a Grecian Urn?
- 53: How to Approach Your Teaching Like a Master Chef
- 52: Is Your Classroom Academically Safe?
- 51: CommonLit's Online Library of Free Texts
- 50: Using Playlists to Differentiate Instruction
- 49: How Dialogue Journals Build Teacher-Student Relationships
- 48: Implementing a Classroom Management Plan that Works
- 47: Black Girls and School: We Can Do Better
- 46: The Gut-Level Teacher Reflection
- 45: Ten Ways to Sabotage Your Classroom Management
- 44: Bring Podcasts Into Your Classroom with Listen Current
- 43: How to Make Better Use of Twitter
- 42: Kindergarten Redshirting
- 41: Student-Made E-Books
- 40: How to Stop Yelling at Your Students
- 39: How to Plan Outstanding Tech Training for Teachers
- 38: The Library that Increased Student Use by 1,000 Percent
- 37: How to Motivate Students: Five Questions for Teachers
- 36: How I Teach Argumentative Writing
- 35: Six Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2016
- 34: Starting a Teaching Job in the Middle of the School Year
- 33: Five Powerful Ways to Save Time as a Teacher
- 32: How and Why We Should Let Our Students Fail
- 31: the Power of Being a Dork
- 30: How One Teacher Manages a Self-Paced Class
- 29: Four Things I've Learned About Teaching from CrossFit
- 28: Class Discussion Strategies
- 27: Interview with an Instructional Coach, Part 2
- 26: Interview with an Instructional Coach, Part 1
- 25: When a Student Hates You
- 24: Five Teaching Practices I'm Kicking to the Curb
- 23: How We Say Our Students' Names...and Why It Matters
- 22: Three Hacks that Solve Big School Problems
- 21: Make It Stick Author Peter Brown
- 20: Dogfooding
- 19: Goal-Setting for Teachers
- 18: How Ordinary Teachers Become Activists
- 17: Tools that Help Students Follow their Passions
- 16: Job Interview Advice for Teachers
- 15: a Teacher's Coming Out Story
- 14: Seven Easy Ways to Support Student Writing in Any Content Area
- 13: Could You Teach Without Grades?
- 12: How Your Nonverbals Impact Your Teaching
- 11: Avoiding the "Wait 'Till Your Father Gets Home" Trap
- 10: In Praise of Think-Pair-Share
- 8: Talking about Race in the Classroom with José Vilson
- 7: Should You Give Timed Math Tests?
- 6: Our First Call-In Advice Show!
- 5: What is 20 Percent Time? A Conversation with A.J. Juliani
- 4: What the Mother of an Autistic Child Wants Teachers to Know
- 2: Why One Teacher Left the Profession
- 1: Best Practices for Teaching English Learners
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