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Empowered Educators: Immersing Students in Subjects Keystone Education Radio
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Meet Joe Welch, a middle school history teacher from the Pittsburgh area whose creative and adaptive methods are not only energizing his students but taking colleagues from running-on-empty to feeling inspired. Keystone Education Radio host Annette Stevenson speaks with Joe to learn how this educator is using experiential education to equalize, engage and cause students to ask, “Why?”
Skip to: 00:57 Can you first start by telling us a little bit about your career in teaching?
“If I had to quickly summarize, it’s been really just a career that I’ve looked forward to continue growing and will do so in the future.”
Skip to: 02:12 Can you tell us a little bit about the attention you’re getting for some of the creative ways to fill your classrooms empty seats while students are learning from home?
“Not only did it lead to that historical conversation, it was also another pathway, as I said earlier, to get students to smile in a time that had a lot of uncertainty.”
Skip to: 05:41 Do you see a difference in teaching the curriculum this way over years past or would this just fall into the category of that, each year looking for a new way to teach and that year over year evolution?
“And I tell students, it’s not what you know it’s what you can do with what you know. How can you communicate your thoughts to maybe somebody that doesn’t agree with you, to somebody that doesn’t understand you?”
Skip to: 07:29 What are some other ways that you’ve changed your approach to instruction throughout this year of remote teaching?
“I think many teachers, our gas levels are sometimes around E. But it became this way to refill ourselves.”
Skip to: 10:38 In what ways have you made connections with fellow teachers during this pandemic and particularly around some of these inventive approaches that you’ve been using?
“When we come out of this post-COVID world, we’re going to hit the ground running. And I don’t really mean that with teacher speak, I really do mean that we can come out of this with an opportunity to take these positives and move forward.”
Skip to: 13:36 Is there anything that you think you definitely want to hang on to and incorporate even going forward when things resume normalcy?
“…equity is now such a piece that has come to the forefront when I am delivering whatever type of lesson it is.”
Q: Can you first start by telling us a little bit about your career in teaching?
A: Absolutely. It’s hard to believe how fast time does fly. I always still consider myself a young teacher but I’m in my 14th year of teaching here in North Hills, so I’m now middle of the pack if I had to put that out there. But really, I’ve spent my entire career teaching
About this Episode
Time Stamps
Q&A
About our Guests
Resources
Meet Joe Welch, a middle school history teacher from the Pittsburgh area whose creative and adaptive methods are not only energizing his students but taking colleagues from running-on-empty to feeling inspired. Keystone Education Radio host Annette Stevenson speaks with Joe to learn how this educator is using experiential education to equalize, engage and cause students to ask, “Why?”
Skip to: 00:57 Can you first start by telling us a little bit about your career in teaching?
“If I had to quickly summarize, it’s been really just a career that I’ve looked forward to continue growing and will do so in the future.”
Skip to: 02:12 Can you tell us a little bit about the attention you’re getting for some of the creative ways to fill your classrooms empty seats while students are learning from home?
“Not only did it lead to that historical conversation, it was also another pathway, as I said earlier, to get students to smile in a time that had a lot of uncertainty.”
Skip to: 05:41 Do you see a difference in teaching the curriculum this way over years past or would this just fall into the category of that, each year looking for a new way to teach and that year over year evolution?
“And I tell students, it’s not what you know it’s what you can do with what you know. How can you communicate your thoughts to maybe somebody that doesn’t agree with you, to somebody that doesn’t understand you?”
Skip to: 07:29 What are some other ways that you’ve changed your approach to instruction throughout this year of remote teaching?
“I think many teachers, our gas levels are sometimes around E. But it became this way to refill ourselves.”
Skip to: 10:38 In what ways have you made connections with fellow teachers during this pandemic and particularly around some of these inventive approaches that you’ve been using?
“When we come out of this post-COVID world, we’re going to hit the ground running. And I don’t really mean that with teacher speak, I really do mean that we can come out of this with an opportunity to take these positives and move forward.”
Skip to: 13:36 Is there anything that you think you definitely want to hang on to and incorporate even going forward when things resume normalcy?
“…equity is now such a piece that has come to the forefront when I am delivering whatever type of lesson it is.”
Q: Can you first start by telling us a little bit about your career in teaching?
A: Absolutely. It’s hard to believe how fast time does fly. I always still consider myself a young teacher but I’m in my 14th year of teaching here in North Hills, so I’m now middle of the pack if I had to put that out there. But really, I’ve spent my entire career teaching
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