MindShift Podcast

This podcast adds so much to my life, I don’t know how I survived before it. Short yet tells a complete story that is well researched and captivating. As a parent this expands my view so wildly and for that I am appreciative.

There was some great information in here around phonemic awareness especially around blending and segmenting. However I keep hearing missteps in episodes like this. Reading recovery DOES include phonemic awareness and phonics. Reading recovery teachers are highly skilled intervention teachers who meet students where they are and then take them beyond and the above skills are a part of that. On the topic of balanced literacy: there are multiple aspects to this, hence it being called balanced. Phonemic awareness and phonics is one part of this system. As a first grade teacher these have both helped my readers. Please consider spotlighting educational experts and not educational journalists. It has been causing many challenges in our field.

Study strategies lecture Professor typified the empty chatter of US colleges. The tragedy is students in the USA pay a ransom to be a captive audience to them—and the professor gets a pay check. I remember from the first day till decades later when we sat in the beginning of a University lecture was like a train starting — stop the conversation and jump on. There are too many great books to read rather than listening to this. The internet revolution allows us to filter much and see how much busy chatter is in US academics. And his book won’t be on my list

Great first episode back. The awareness being made surrounding assessments is crucial and something that must always be scrutinized and re-evaluated.