Effective Teaching Tips for Teachers

Anthony Rojo

My hope is that I can pass on the wisdom and experience that I've gained over my 25 years of teaching at the high school level especially to first year teachers who can be thrust into the classroom with very little support and an endless number of questions on how to survive their first year of teaching. My goal is to help you not just survive but thrive during your first year so that you can experience the many blessings I have been lucky enough to enjoy both inside and outside of the classroom.

Episodes

  1. 10/18/2021

    High expectations and students with Special Guest John Marheineke

    In this episode, I explore with special guest John Marheineke how he supports students as they work to meet his expectations as a teacher.  His insight and experience provide valuable lessons for all teachers, regardless of subject, experience level, school setting or teaching philosophy.  Enjoy the wisdom of John!!

  2. 10/15/2021

    Expectations and the System of Tracking

    In this episode, I explore how expectations schools, administrators, counselors and teachers hold of students of color and low income students contributes to the tracking of these students into a vocational track that despite, the intelligence and skills necessary to carry out these "vocational" careers, nevertheless, denies students the CHOICE or OPTION of attending a university which is both immoral and neglectful on the part of our K-12 schooling system.

  3. 10/06/2021

    STOP Running from the truth: Teachers and Race in the Classroom

    In this episode I examine how schools, administrators and teachers can deny the role that race plays in the classroom and how far too many educators refuse to confront their own implicit biases.  In doing so, they fail their students and leave them to suffer the negative consequences of teachers living in denial and running from the truth.  It's time to WAKE UP TEACHERS and own your implicit biases!!!

  4. 09/26/2021

    Pulling back the veil: Revealing the truth to your students

    One of the things that plagues too many social studies classrooms is an unwillingness to be brutally honest with our students about America's ugly past and its shameful present.  Too many teachers have a sanitized curriculum.   Have the courage to be honest and transparent with your students, even if the subject matter is extremely controversial like the truth about 9/11.  We can't ask our students to be agents of change if they don't know the problems that exist that people, including teachers, are reluctant to talk about.

  5. 09/19/2021

    Episode #3: What does respect and transparency look like in the classroom??

    In this episode, I reveal how, this past week in my US History classes, I was very honest and transparent with my students about how my personal life was impacting my teaching and how they, as teenagers, deserved better from me as their teacher.  I used TPR (Total Physical Response) to engage them in this dialogue and, in doing so, they had the opportunity to be very honest and open with me about the first 4 weeks in my classroom.

  6. 09/11/2021

    Effective Teaching: Respect Your Students

    In this episode, after thanking the many people who took the time to listen to my first podcast and clarifying some of the mistakes I made on the first podcast, I will examine the notion of classroom management and turn it on its head by arguing that classroom management should not be the focus.  Rather, finding ways to respect your students should be what teachers emphasize from day one.  If you can garner respect from your students, classroom management will take care of itself.

  7. 09/05/2021

    First Podcast on How to be an effective teacher

    On my very first podcast of how to be an effective teacher, I give an overview of my teaching experience, what the episodes will be like and what my listeners can expect from me moving forward.  I also provide my first tip while also making my first mistake as I didn't realize the recordings on Anchor are limited to 5 minutes so my first recording was cut off right in the middle of a point I was making.  However, instead of editing the podcast, I want to present episodes that have no editing but, rather, are authentic recordings that will have mistakes similar to what teachers experience in the classroom environment.  Consequently, my first podcast is broken into two 5 minute segments with the hope that, in the future, I will be able to recored sessions that are longer than 5 minutes.   I hope everyone enjoys this first episode and tunes in next week to hear my second tip on how to be an effective teacher in the classroom. Have an excellent week!! Take care, Anthony Rojo

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My hope is that I can pass on the wisdom and experience that I've gained over my 25 years of teaching at the high school level especially to first year teachers who can be thrust into the classroom with very little support and an endless number of questions on how to survive their first year of teaching. My goal is to help you not just survive but thrive during your first year so that you can experience the many blessings I have been lucky enough to enjoy both inside and outside of the classroom.

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