Teacher Formation Podcast
1) Deep Dive Conversation on Activating Prior Knowledge
in this episode, we discuss a specific aspect of teaching: activating prior knowledge. We talk about why APK is important and how teachers can use APK strategies to effectively prime students to learn...Show More
2) The Myth of Learning Styles
We discuss the pervasive neuromyth of Learning Styles and talk about alternative ways to reach all learners with evidence-based teaching practices. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/...Show More
3) Highlighting some teaching ideas from our supervision observations
Monica and Erin chat about some cool teaching ideas they have seen in their recent classroom supervision visits. Send ideas for future episode topics to Monica at kowalski.42@nd.edu!
4) What is progress monitoring in elementary schools?
There are so many types of assessment that happen in schools. Today we talk about progress monitoring, including curriculum-based monitoring. We discuss how and why these are used in classrooms and wh...Show More
5) Teacher Formation: Talk Moves for Classroom Discussion
In this episode, we chat about how teachers can use "talk moves" to facilitate classroom discussions. Talk moves are great for formative assessment and for improving writing.The article we reference c...Show More
6) Trauma-Informed Teaching and COVID
We discuss Kara Newhouse's MindShift article: Four Core Priorities for Trauma-Informed Distance Learning.https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55679/four-core-priorities-for-trauma-informed-distance-learning...Show More
7) How to Teach Reading
Today we chat about how we approach the teaching of reading as we read Lucy Calkins' article "No one gets to own the term 'The science of reading.'" We talk about the history of the "reading wars" and...Show More
8) The Role of Competition in Classrooms
In this episode, we discuss the article "No one wants to be a loser: High school students' perceptions of academic competition" by Kowalski and Christensen. The article can be read here: https://www.m...Show More
9) Starting the School Year Strong
We discuss 2004 Elementary School Journal article The First Days of School in the Classrooms of Two More Effective and Four Less Effective Primary-Grades Teachers by Bohn, Roehrig, and Pressley. The a...Show More
10) Autonomy Supportive Teaching
From the framework of Self-Determination Theory, we discuss how different kinds of autonomy support students' motivation in the classroom. Our featured article is Supporting Autonomy in the Classroom:...Show More