Battling Pickle Podcast: Recent Episodes
Jon Westfall
A podcast by Dr. Jon Westfall that is used primarily for the student’s he’s currently teaching in class, but all are welcome to listen! Topics are broadly based in psychology and higher education. Show Notes available at Show Notes on my Blog
In this episode I talk about how to organize thoughts! https://www.dcc.edu/documents/academics/communication/writing-center-handouts/essay-structure-handout.pdf is the PDF I mention regarding essay structure!
What do I mean by removing the safety tethers and keeping the mat? Well, I mean it's about muscle development, obvious right?
In this podcast I talk about linguistic differences between the real world and Science / Psychology / Education.
A welcome podcast for my Summer II (July 2024) students!
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In this episode I talk about lesson plans, give a little bit of tech advice, and hopefully get rid of some worries regarding the term paper's embedded lesson plan!
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An interesting request I get regularly, that we can unpack in educational contexts!
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In this I talk a little about the EPY 601 Term Paper and Constructivism in the classroom.
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In this short episode, I talk about writing a structured essay, and test out a new way to record my podcast!
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In this podcast I welcome new students to Summer I 2024 and go over the requirements to be successful in class!--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/battlingpickle/message
An episode spent talking about the podcast and begging you to think about academic writing structure
Not many people decided to share their failures, so I share one that I see with a lot of well intentioned, students.
A student and I share our biggest failures teaching and encourage everyone else to contribute. Let’s all learn from each other’s mistakes!
In this episode, we listen to some listener feedback,we talk about some feedback on the prompts and the check-ins
In this podcast, I talk about evidence based practices, and why they can be a dirty word
In this episode, we go for a walk and talk about statistics, anxiety, and intentionality and teaching
First episode of the podcast for this fall looking forward to many new listeners and all the conversations we can have
In this episode I address feedback on your feedback, and answer the question “Why no discussion boards?”
In this episode, I talk about relationships in the context of system, one and system 2 processing
Starting off a new week in the summer term with a reminder about the differences between reinforcement and punishment, and why reinforcement is preferable
In this episode, I talk about term papers, and my thoughts on some of the weekly check ins that have already come in
In this episode, I talk about the first prompt in our graduate educational psychology course and also remind everyone that they need to get a discussion group put together for an assignment due in just a few days.
In this episode, I talk about the course requirements for my summer courses give you some tips and tricks and encourage you to interact with a podcast
In this episode I talk about two groups that aren’t often discussed together: Older Adults and kids with exceptionalities!
In this season to Opener, I talk about what is abnormal versus not abnormal. And admit to doing some thing a little bit crazy.
Being productive means being flexible. This week I talk about some of my best productivity tips! Show Notes
A shoutout to the Today in the History of Psychology website, and musings on religion and philosophy. Show Notes.
In this episode I talk about frequency distributions, the shape of data and where the middle of the data is.
We hear about statistics a lot these days, so in this podcast episode I take some time to start unpacking the basics of them - from populations to samples, correlation not equaling causation, and measurement scales! Show Notes.
How did I feel about the major projects that I just graded? My feedback to the class and follow up to the concepts talked about in battling pickle podcast number four. Show Notes
This week I cover the difference between RTI and MTSS. I also talk about how responses to my Midterm Survey in Psychology of Learning changed my mind about a change I was planning on making to the class! Show Notes.
How do you work with students who experienced trauma and what should your institution be doing? Show Notes
In this episode I discuss the themes from the learner survey I have out in Graduate Ed. Psych, and the pros of standardized testing! Show Notes (Including References to the Paper I discussed)
The nebulous Major Project that I assign (and perhaps others do too!) - what is it, how can it be accomplished, and how can you think outside the box with it? Show Notes.
Punish behaviors you don't want, Reinforce those you do. For any set of behaviors, you could choose either path - so why would you want to choose Reinforcement over Punishment? Because Punishment has problems, and I'll discuss those in this podcast! Show Notes
Often we use different routines in classrooms in order to establish norms. But what happens when the intention behind that routine is no longer being served? Show Notes.
Join Dr. Jon Westfall as he discusses reasons why students may not connect what they’re learning in the classroom and their real world life experiences post-graduation. We’ll talk about the performance-goal mindset, methods to push students to apply material to different contexts, and how we as educators must be comfortable with many moving pieces at once! Show Notes