Episode Details

Zach is joined by Lydia Crush to talk about their philosophy toward metacognition and reflection in their ESL Geography class, as well as how they use the MCP model to facilitate and promote metacognitive and reflective thinking.

Show Notes

• More info on MCP Webinars and Scholarships

• Cult of Pedagogy articles and podcasts featuring MCP:

  • How to Create a Self-Paced Classroom
  • Everything You Need To Know About Building a Great Screencast Video
  • CoP Podcast: Setting Up Mastery Based Grading in Your Classroom

• Lydia’s public tracker

• One of Lydia’s individual trackers: Unit 3 Individual Tracker & Checklist

• Lydia’s goal setting form (daily do now) 

• Lydia’s End of Unit Reflection 

• MCP Learner Check-in Tracker (and a video explaining it)

• Email Lydia at lydia.crush@modernclassrooms.org

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