EP:5 - Allison Paradise
Allison Paradise joined the show to talk about Adulting Month, Pilgrimmages, NaNoWriMo, Learning Spaces, Adobe Spark, Blogging, Traveling, Dowel Rod Fights, Reindeer Antlers, and More! #CadetArchitects
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- 0:15 - Intros
- 1:48 - Something random or unique
- Kneading Paradise
- Her love of older VW Buses (art by lemorris.com)
- Reindeer Antlers
- 3:16 - Information about her English Classes
- "Making memorable moments."
- Adulting Month - Things that seniors will need to do as they become adults
- Mr. Dugan shoutout
- Pilgrimmages - "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Adulting Month - Things that seniors will need to do as they become adults
- "Making memorable moments."
- 5:50 - Allison's "Why" of teaching.
- How she masks her violent-ness :)
- How a teacher reached out and help
- Middle school teachers have a lot of patience.
- How she found her place
- 7:41 - "30 Second Timeout"
- What makes Ms. Paradise so great from some of her former students.
- 8:26 - Learning Space Discussion
- How the physical things that she did as a student, helped her remember things better.
- "I try to make learning a moving experience. "
- Dowel Rod Fights
- Cascade High School Gymnasium
- Their are classrooms around the top of the gym and the hallways lead right to it.
- For you sports lovers - The "Sweet Meat" in the concession stand is a crowd favorite.
- 10:27 - Students' thoughts on moving learning spaces
- Benefits of small groups and how she connects with the quiet students
- 11:55 - Adobe Spark Discussion
- Fun, creative, user-friendly, able to be used by teachers and students
- "Makes very minimal effort look phenomenal."
- 13:10 - Poetry Project Discussion
- The process of learning and planning is more important.
- Sparks segmented nature helps with Paul Harvey Poem
- 14:27 - NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month
- Write 50,000 words of a new novel.
- Student club met after school to write, as well.
- 16:35 - Ms. Paradise discusses her own NaNoWriMo novel.
- The inspiration behind her novel.
- She conducted 30 interviews with others before the novel.
- Her emotional level after the interviews.
- You are not alone in your struggles.
- 19:05 - How she weaves NaNoWriMo into her classroom.
- Preptober
- Are you a Pantster or a Planner?
- How she uses her personal experiences of writing with her students.
- 20:15 - Blogging
- Why she blogs about travel.
- All the places that she has been. Whoa!
- 22:23 - How does Blogging impact you as a writer and a teacher?
- Importance of editing and having someone else edit her writing.
- The embarrassment of having a typo as an English teacher.
- Emotional Vomiting - The good and the bad.
- 23:38 - Peer editing
- Positives and Negatives of peer edits
- It's essential. No one is perfect. Always need a second eye.
- Helps with tone, inflection, etc.
- "It's always good to have an outsider look at what you've written to make sure if makes sense."
- 25:00 - How do you remember your travels?
- Obsessive journal-er
- Power of being able to go back and look at them.
- Her aunt recommended journaling when she was younger.
- 26:05 - What's one word of advice for teachers wanting to try something new?
- Don't be afraid to allow the students to help you learn new things.
- You don't have to be the master.
- Embrace the students' knowledge.
- Teachers are also learning.
- Everyone must continue to learn.
- 27:29 - Where can people connect with Ms. Paradise?
- Twitter - @MsPdise
- Blog - RamblingsOfParadise.com
- 27:50 - School trips coming up -
- One of the Rivieras haha -
- New York-
- Scotland-
- Japan-
- 28:48 - Discussion of the benefits of going on these traveling school trips.
- How amazing it is to see students outside of their school personalities.
- The creepiness of seeing students at the Walmarts :)