Teacher Formation Podcast

Monica Kowalski

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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.

03/11/2022

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!
02/03/2022

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
01/20/2022

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!
10/29/2021

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. Thanks to Joe Stone for the audio editing and theme music!
01/28/2021

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.
10/01/2020

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.
02/29/2020

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 how we both endorse a balanced literacy approach. We also discuss how to support older students who are lacking foundational reading and decoding skills. Read along with the article here: https://readingandwritingproject.org/news/no-one-gets-to-own-the-term-the-science-of-reading Special thanks to our sound editor and theme music creator, Joe Stone.
01/31/2020

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.mwera.org/MWER/volumes/v31/issue4/V31n4-Kowalski-FEATURE-ARTICLE.pdf Are students motivated by competition? You may be surprised at the results of this study. How should teachers use competition in their classrooms? Spoiler alert: they shouldn't!

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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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Monica Kowalski
Years Active

2019 - 2022
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15
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Teacher Formation Podcast