How We Teach This: Season Four
Season 4 of How We Teach This has a wide range of guests and topics - including National Teachers Hall of Fame Inductees, Memorial to Fallen Educators, social- emotional learning, teacher retention and more.
Season 4, Episode 1 - June 8, 2022
Impacting Struggling Students
We continue our interview with Michael McKnight, author and special education expert, in Part 2 of exploring issues around struggling students. We delve even deeper into the importance of creating connections with students. McKnight shares about how having solid, positive relationships is powerful for teachers. Creating quality relationships is critical to having a successful outcome, especially for students exposed to trauma. He offers specific examples of how teachers can integrate building a relationship into their daily classroom experience. (Part 1 of the interview can be found here.)
Season 4, Episode 2 - June 22, 2022
Learning About the Teacher Shortage with Data
Dr. Bret Church, Assistant Professor at Emporia State University and co-researcher of the Kansas Teacher Retention Initiative, shares the results from a survey of 50% of the educators in Kansas.
They were questioned on three key areas: satisfaction, engagement in the profession, and future intentions.
Districts can analyze their own data but the overall stakeholders can learn from these results and build an action plan to improve the situation in Kansas regarding the Teacher Shortage.
Season 4, Episode 3 - July 6, 2022
Teacher Talk featuring the 2020 National Teachers Hall of Fame inductees
The class of 2020 National Teachers Hall of Fame inductees were on campus at Emporia State University in June 2022 for their long-awaited and COVID-shutdown delayed induction into NTHF, housed at Emporia State.
These experienced teachers delve into classroom management strategies, what they do for self-care, and shared stories of students who changed their teaching careers.
The 2020 inductees are:
Andrew Beiter, a Springville (NY) Middle School eighth grade social studies teacher;
Melissa Collins, a second grade teacher at John P. Freeman Optional School in Memphis, TN;
Donna Gradel, a retired high school environmental science teacher from Broken Arrow High School, and current Dean of Academics and Innovation at Summit Christian Academy;
Thomas Knab, a K-4 visual arts educator at Dodge Elementary School in East Amherst, NY; and
Jamil Siddiqui, a mathematics teacher at East Bridgewater Junior/Senior High School in East Bridgewater, MA.
Season 4, Episode 4 - July 20, 2022
Need for Neuroscience in Education, Part 2
Dr. Dustin Springer, Principal of Gray Hawk Elementary in USD 458 Basehor-Linwood in Kansas, inspires teachers to change their mindset from one of punishment to understanding. He gives examples of Amigdala reset stations and how creating connections with students creates a climate that improves behavior. He describes holding a student accountable for actions but not at the moment when the brain is dysregulated.
Josh Bolick
Head, David Shulenburger Office of Scholarly Communication & Copyright
University of Kansas
Lee Miller
Director of Innovation & Compliance
Center for Innovation & Excellence
Barton Community College
millerle@bartonccc.edu
Season 4, Episode 5 - August 3, 2022
Nuts & Bolts of OER, Open Educational Resources
Lee Miller and Josh Bolick, experts in OER, spend a lot of time helping others navigate the emerging strategy of OER for their classrooms. In this episode, they discuss the value students find in OER and the advantages instructors may discover using OER. Listen to learn about what the copyright symbols mean and get many resources to start your search.
Lee Miller
Director of Innovation & Compliance
Center for Innovation & Excellence
Barton Community College
millerle@bartonccc.edu
Josh Bolick
Head, David Shulenburger Office of Scholarly Communication & Copyright
Watson Library Room 400A
University of Kansas
Season 4, Episode 6 - August 17, 2022
Improving Pedagogy with OER
Part 1 of 2
Part 1 of 2
Lee Miller and Josh Bolick, experts in Open Educational Resources (OER), spend a lot of time helping others navigate the emerging strategy of OER for their classrooms. In this episode they share how not only can professors in higher education but also teachers in K-12 can improve teaching and learning by utilizing the concept of open educational resources. They describe the value OER offers the classroom by empowering students as creators.
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