Podcast Episodes
Back to Search197: How to Leverage Multisensory Learning in Your Classroom
Our sensory systems have a HUGE influence on how we learn, serving as building blocks for regulation, engagement, exploration, safety, movement, soci…
3 years, 6 months ago
EduTip 17: Repeat audience questions.
When a student or audience member has a question, repeating it before you answer allows everyone else to hear it and gives you a chance to clarify th…
3 years, 6 months ago
196: Four Models for Doing Blended Learning in Your Classroom
Even though many of us are back in physical classrooms this year, blended learning offers a way to weave together online and offline learning to posi…
3 years, 6 months ago
195: Five Fantastic Ideas for Collaboration Projects
Collaboration is great as long as you have high-quality projects for students to work on. In this episode, we'll explore five unique ideas for collab…
3 years, 7 months ago
EduTip 16: Do a smooth first read.
Stopping while you read a text out loud might be necessary in order to explain, dissect, or analyze something, but those interruptions can really mes…
3 years, 7 months ago
194: Finding the Funk: 3 Ways to Add Culturally Responsive Critical Thinking to Your Lessons
Critical thinking is something usually reserved only for advanced classes, but if we want our students to receive an equitable education, they all ne…
3 years, 8 months ago
EduTip 15: Set aside time to set norms.
If too many of your classroom plans go off the rails, you might need to add more norm-setting, where you clarify expectations in detail before starti…
3 years, 8 months ago
193: Creating Language-Affirming Classrooms for Code-Switching Students
Language shapes so much of who we are, but not all students feel they can bring their whole selves into the classroom. Even the most well-meaning tea…
3 years, 8 months ago
EduTip 14: Find teachable moments in the downtime.
We spend a LOT of time with students, and quite a bit of that time is not used for direct instruction. This "downtime" offers plenty of tiny opportun…
3 years, 9 months ago
192: How to Use Backward Chaining to Differentiate Instruction
We've covered a lot of differentiation strategies over the years, and here's one you may not have heard of: backward chaining. It allows students to …
3 years, 9 months ago