15 episodes
Teacher Formation Podcast Monica Kowalski
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- Education
We are Monica Kowalski and Erin Wibbens, professors of education working with beginning teachers in Catholic schools across the country. We believe that teacher formation is an ongoing process that includes learning from current research. In each episode, we will unpack a work of current educational scholarship and discuss applications for classroom teachers.
Special thanks to our sound editor and theme music creator, Joe Stone.
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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 new knowledge.
Thanks to Joe Stone for music and sound editing! -
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/the-myth-of-learning-styles/557687/
https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/edu-edu0000366.pdf -
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!
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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 what teachers should do with them.
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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 can be found here: https://my.nsta.org/resource/?id=10.2505/4/sc16_053_08_24 or by googling Talk Moves by Page Keeley, 2016. -
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
For more about Trauma-Informed Teaching, we recommend this site: https://www.transformingeducation.org/trauma-informed-sel-toolkit/
We also mentioned the great Catholic resources on this site:
https://www.looktohimandberadiant.com/2016/02/from-kids-for-kids-practical-ideas-for.html
Thanks for listening, and thanks to our sound editor and music composer, Joe Stone.