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Catholic Teachers' Lounge Podcast
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Jill and Colleen discuss topics and tips for enhancing the Catholic School classroom.
21episodes
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Transition and connection
Jun 5, 2024Tap to summarizeUse the summer to prepare kids to comfortably start the year together. Offering some short, easy connection opportunities, like popsicles in the park, is good for teachers, parents, and students.
Transcribe →Things in Moderation
Jun 4, 2024Tap to summarizeTrying to make big changes all at once can result in undesirable outcomes. Making changes, personally or professionally, can be a slow and steady process. Whether talking about personal fitness, redesigning your classroom, or getting kids to participate in silent sustained reading for 25 minutes, moderation and slow build will get you there.
Transcribe →Nervous system reset
May 30, 2024Tap to summarizeThe vagus nerve connects the brain to all bodily organs and is therefor affected by almost every internal and external stimulus. In this episode, Colleen and Jill discuss the importance of knowing some basics of neuroscience to help kids with self regulation and stimuli that affect classroom performance and behavior.
Transcribe →Life on display
May 29, 2024Tap to summarizeSeeing and hearing an unborn baby impacts pro-life beliefs and advocacy. Jill shares a story about an elementary school having live ultrasounds for the student body to experience life in the womb.
Transcribe →Using interviews as a learning tool
May 28, 2024Tap to summarizeInterviews can be used as a flexible teaching, learning, and assessment tool in many classes and at any grade level. This episode highlights ways to integrate interviews to create perspective, teach critical thinking, and more.
Transcribe →Coding Student Work
May 23, 202400:12:20Tap to summarizeThe methods of qualitative research apply to grading papers, too. When grading a stack of papers, how do you categorize them by what you notice? Using codes to create different learning paths based on how students responded to particular quiz questions will help to improve your instruction for the next year. Connections to standardized test data is also discussed.
Transcribe →Teaching Writing in Lower Grades
May 22, 202400:13:03Tap to summarizeLearning to write is a long process with milestones at each grade level. In this episode Colleen and Jill discuss the fundamentals of learning to write in the lower grades using graphic organizers and having realistic expectations for idea development and grammatical and structural skills.
Transcribe →AP vs. Dual Credit
May 21, 202400:12:21Tap to summarizeWhich is better, Advanced Placement or Dual Credit? This episode debates the merit of offering these types of courses in high schools.
Transcribe →Reasons kids misbehave and detach
May 16, 202400:12:34Tap to summarizeIt’s important for teachers to remember that student behaviors are not personal. This episode reveals 5 reasons why students misbehave and detach in school.
Transcribe →Anti-picks for summer reading
May 15, 202400:11:37Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Colleen and Jill discuss ways to get kids to read over the summer, specifically through trickery.
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