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Episode 138 - Effectively Turning PD into Practice: A Case Study with Valerie Young
It can be hard to take PD and turn it into effective teaching practices in your classroom. In this episode, I interviews Valerie Young to discuss how her school goes about implementing their professional learning,...
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Episode 137 - Sugar highs and lows: How sugar increases your teaching workload
I recently watched the sugar movie with my 6-year-old daughter and it confirmed a number of things I already knew and talk about in my book - Work Less, Teach More. Discover some of the effects sugar is having on your...
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Episode 136 - The Power of Choice: How to Empower Your Students for Successful Learning
Empowering our students to become successful learners is so important. In this episode, I give 3 strategies you can use to enable your students to become successful in your classroom.
Notes
Empowerment is crucial...
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Episode 135 - How to save time with ChatGpT
In this episode, I discuss some of the time-saving ways we can use Chat GpT as teachers in order to save time and improve our productivity.
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Episode 134 - How to improve student motivation with Don Berg
In this episode, I interview motivation psychologist - Don Berg to discuss how we can help our students to be motivated to learn in our classrooms.
You can get a free copy of the book Work Less, Teach More at...
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Episode 133 - Key takeaways from the Effective Teaching Conference
In this episode, I reflect on some of the key learnings that came during the Effective Teaching Conference from the likes of John Larmer, Suzie Boss, Jay McTighe, Alice Kim, Kasey Bell, Kelly Bell, Brendan Lee, Jen...
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Episode 132 - Time to set goals
It's time to round up the year, reflect and set goals. This is the last episode for the year. I look forward to talking with you in 2023.
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Reflect on your year. Gather...
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Episode 131 - The joy of regular short breaks
Discover the joy that comes with lots of short breaks, both for you and your students. There are plenty of great benefits.
Research indicates that multiple 5 min breaks are better than a larger single break. so…
Give...
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Episode 130 - 3 things you should avoid as a teacher
Discover 3 things that can destroy your mojo and have a negative impact on you and your students. We all need to avoid these. Learn more about the conference at https://www.teacherspd.net/conference
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Episode 129 - Controlling the Chaos with Stephanie Howell and Tara Ruckman
Dan interviews Stephanie Howell and Tara Ruckman to discuss their new #1 Amazon best-selling book "Control the Choas". Discover how you can help control your blended classroom by developing student executive...
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Episode 128 - Saving time with this simple hack
Discover how to save time as you write your reports and mark tasks with this simple hack
Parkinson's law - work expands to fulfil the time allowed for its completion.
We prioritise and get work done by their due...
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Episode 127 - Mastery Learning with Jon Bergmann
I really enjoyed interviewing Jon Bergmann (flipped learning pioneer and author of multiple books including recently "The Mastery Learning Handbook". Here Jon lays out what mastery learning is, how to plan for it, and...
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