Morning Duty: A Teacher Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Are you a teacher seeking creative classroom strategies? A parent wanting to extend learning beyond the school gates? Or perhaps you're just a lifelong learner, eager to fill your morning commute with something a little more enriching than yesterday's pop hits. Whatever your role, "Morning Duty" has got you covered!
Telling isn't teaching, and teaching doesn't always equal learning. Learning happens when our students are engaged, active thinkers. This comes down to the cognitive ratio in the classroom. Cognitive ratio is the balance between how much the teacher is working, talking, and thinking, vs how much the students are working, talking, and thinking. Trust us, we all want our students to be working harder than we are once the bell rings.
In this episode, we discuss lesson planning with subobjectives. Each subobjective is scaffolded with Bloom's Taxonomy (or DOK), and has its own gradual release cycle. This method can help students progress towards mastery of the final learning target. It also feels very quick and urgent! Follow for more!
With the Nation's Report Card, NAEP, released a few weeks ago we saw how academic acheivement dropped these past few years. Pandemic learning loss has also led to changes in attention span and focus. Attention spans have been decreasing for years but HOW students pay attention has also changed. More multi-tasking, split attention, and divided focus has become normal and we may all need to learn to adapt to this new normal.
On today's episode we discuss why you should write your test before you start teaching your unit. When we're truly UbD (Understanding by Design) planners, our tests should be written before the first day of the unit...but how many of us do that? It's one of those teaching habits we know we should be doing. There's been many times when we've written our test a few days before the assessment when we know it should have been written at the beginning of the unt. We discuss why on today's Morning Duty.
On this Friday morning we discuss how excellence sheets are a high quality spiraled review page and we talk about ways to feedback to students that is both warm and honest.
Mesa Public Schools comes up with an innovative way to handle the teacher shortage...team teaching large groups of kids! Plus why Ben Franklin's refusal to finance a church bell led to summer vacation. Thank you for listening to Morning Duty.
Happy Wednesday! We're sharing some of the most interesting data we've learned about the earnings of Teachers Pay Teachers and its most successful sellers, as well as a new way to support executive functioning and student organization.
Happy Taco Tuesday! What if we had mandatory substitute duty like we do jury duty? We also chat about a new way to build anchor charts for the room. Come along with us for morning duty!
In this episode we look at how Ben Franklin used a tongue-in-cheek article to introduce daylight savings to the Parisians and how educator Sam Balto made coming to school greener with his weekly "bike bus."
On this frosty Friday we talk about the AI teacher feedback app TeachFX and better ways to help your students reflect.
On this glorious Thursday morning, we chat about the power of using stopwatches and how things can change when we start measuring them.
THANK YOU MATH TEACHERS! From pandemic loss to Common Core to NAEP scores, math teachers are often under a microscope. So, we're giving them some much-deserved love. Also, why we love bringing joy into the classroom and a few easy ways to do it. Teachers: good luck and godspeed during this Halloween week!
Happy Thursday morning! In this episode we discuss the benefits of using table points and we highlight one of the most creative physics teachers out there, Dr. Skateboard.
Brain science, lesson planning, and retention. That's what you get when you start teaching with the primacy-recency effect in mind. We're most likely to remember the beginning and the end of the lesson the best, so hack learning, memory, and student achievement by lesson planning around this structure.
Every question is a learning opportunity. We talk all about how to write better questions and how to support student answers. What should you do when you hear a weak response? What kind of feedback should you give to your students to help solidify their learning? What teacher moves you can make to maximize the rigor and quality of their answers?
Classroom management is one of the core elements of a classroom and everybody goes through their struggles. For classrooms that look smooth know that key elements have been put in place to minimize management issues. Learn the key elements of great classroom management here in episode 11.
Resist the urge to sit behind your desk. Just kidding... we know you're better than that! But, what should you be doing when your students start working? How purposeful is your circulating? Are you checking in with small groups? Are your students with accommodations using their accommodations? Do you have an exemplar that you are using to evaluate right answers? Once students start working there are tons of opportunities to make the right teacher moves and in this episode we dive into what you should and shouldn't be doing when students start their work. Thanks for listening to School Bridge :)
Back to School Night is an exciting evening. In this episode we discuss what parents are looking for during back to school night and all the things you should do and should avoid when meeting with families.
In this episode we give you the background knowledge needed to execute Bloom's Taxonomy in your planning, lessons, and assessments.
Happy first week of school! In this episode, we cover everything to consider when prepping for the beginning of a new school year. From visual culture to seating charts, family communication to self care, we discuss our favorite tips and tricks to start the year strong. Happy new school year, everyone!
We know that effective routines and procedures are the backbone of strong classroom management. In this episode we breakdown the 4 key components of high quality routines and procedures as well as discussing our favorites in the classroom. We all know that teacher who has excellent routines and procedures and we discuss how you can be that example in your school.
In episode 5 we discuss our favorite projects ever. From exploding volcanoes to searching wikileaks cables to egg drops, we talk about what made these projects great and why our students loved them. This episode builds on our discussion from episode 3 where we discussed projects best practices. Let us know your favorite projects and don't forget to subscribe to The School Bridge Podcast!
Did you know that the average teacher asks 400 questions per day?? In this episode, we dig deep into the questions we ask every day. We start with the three components of questions - the type of question, how it's asked, and our response - and expand into cognitive hierarchies and types of questions. You'll walk away with big picture ideas as well as specific tips you can use in the classroom. Thank you for listening to School Bridge! Like, subscribe, and follow!
On this episode, we shine a well-deserved spotlight on projects! When done well, projects can boost engagement, critical thinking, differentiation, and student autonomy. We discuss the best practices for implementing projects and share a few of our favorites along the way.
In this episode we discuss COOPERATIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES and the best tools and techniques to boost cooperation between students. We dive deep into the best practices of cooperative learning and discuss effective implementation tips and strategies. Thank you for listening to The School Bridge Podcast.
On this episode we discuss unit planning and the 5 most important aspects and things to remember when unit planning. 1. Thinking Holistically About Your Unit. 2. The Foundations of Unit Planning. 3. Including Diverse Perspectives 4. Differentiation and Accommodation. 5. Including Technical Vocab
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