http://traffic.libsyn.com/remarkablechatter/writing_for_the_governement.mp3 This podcasts explores what it is like to be an educator who writes for the government. Our guest is Suzy[…]
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The Better Learning for Schools Podcast blends educational research, resources, and perspectives from around the world with a bit of humor and novelty. A central focus of the show is to aggregate various capacity-building tools and instructional practices employed both in and out of education, and then explore how they could be utilized in the classroom. Whether, we are concerned with student learning, teacher practices, assessment, student engagement, literacy, classroom dynamics or anything else—in a world this big, there are bound to be a few really great ideas out there somewhere. Let’s find them, explore them, and put them to work in our classrooms. Let’s make sure that we all are working towards better learning for schools.
Minkel’s Elementary Writing Tips (Better Learning For Schools #39
http://traffic.libsyn.com/remarkablechatter/Minkels_Elementary_Writing_Tips.mp3 This podcast explores writing in education with our guest–Justin Minkel. Justin is an elementary school teacher and was[…]
Read moreMaking Time to Write (Better Learning For Schools #38)
http://traffic.libsyn.com/remarkablechatter/interview_glenn_wiebe.mp3 In this podcast, we visit with Glenn Wiebe. He is an educator, social studies guru, and blogger on[…]
Read moreAcademic Writing Tips From The Doctor (Better Learning For Schools #37)
http://traffic.libsyn.com/remarkablechatter/academic_writing_tips_janet_stramel.mp3 Since writing is an attempt to fix meaning on the page, do you think educators are held to[…]
Read moreDifferent Writing Strokes For Different Folks (Better Learning For Schools #37)
Did you know there are essentially five different types of writing? The types of writing teachers are engaged in the most depends[…]
Read moreCritical Thinking and Writing (Better Learning For Schools #36)
Conventional wisdom holds that one of the best ways to help student learn to engage in critical thinking is to[…]
Read moreGetting Teachers to Write (Better) {Better Learning For Schools #35}
It is one thing to help teachers to find the time to write. It is quite another to give them[…]
Read moreWhen A Teacher’s Writing Goes Viral (Better Learning For Schools #34)
One of the most challenging aspects of being an educator is getting those outside of the profession to take you[…]
Read moreRecalibrating Project-Based Learning (Better Learning For Schools #33)
In education, just because everyone claims to be doing something similar doesn’t ensure that they are doing it well…or the[…]
Read moreGetting Your Feet Wet with Project-based Learning (Better Learning For Schools #32)
As human-beings, we tend to learn the most when we are given something to do and a problem to solve.[…]
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