The Class on Task Podcast is back and ready to support you through a new school year! This is an exciting time for all of us, but especially new teachers! We hope you have a wonderful first week back to school whether that is this week or in a few weeks. Whenever it is, this episode should be on your listen list! Dr. Lori Friesen is our guest today and she's talking about 4 common classroom management mistakes new teachers make and how to avoid them. Even if you're not a first year teacher, you may learn some tips after pressing play. 

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If you want to learn more from Dr. Lori Friesen or want to check out her other resources for new teachers, you can find her here: 

Podcast: Beginning Teacher Talk 

Instagram: BeginningTeacherTalk 

Facebook Group: BeginningTeacherTalk 

Adding movement breaks in your classroom routine can help reduce disruptive behavior and motivate students to learn! Jay is not only a teacher who uses movement breaks, he CREATES movement breaks tied to all subject areas grades K-3! In this episode, you will hear about Jay's experience with movement breaks, recommendations on how often to use movement breaks, how movement breaks can benefit students and teachers, and the perks to these specific videos! 

Kids Freeze Dance offers over 300+ movement videos for only $1 a month! Jay also takes requests for new videos! To get sneak peeks of Jay's videos, follow him on Instagram! 

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There are over 10 million students in schools who can not read! Are you ready to make a bigger impact on your students' literacy skills? Michael Maloney has 50+ years in education successfully teaching people ages 4 to 54 to read! 

Press play and hear the answers to the following questions and MORE! 

What order should you teach letter sounds? (Spoiler alert... it's not in alphabetical order!) 

What and how should we introduce reading words? 

What data is most important to take to measure student progress? 

What is Direct Instruction? 

Why are these teaching methods so effective? 

Maloney Method Website 

FREE Lessons for Teachers!

Why Your School Doesn't Care That Johnny Didn't Learn to Read This Year 

Project Follow Through 

Siegfried "Zig" Engelmann

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If you are a teacher that taught during this crazy time, we want to give YOU a huge shout-out because COVID brought some unique challenges to your already challenging job! THANK YOU! If you work with kids, you most likely will know where we are going in this episode. Across the country, educators are seeing an increase in problem behavior and a decrease in academic performance. Sometimes it's tricky to identify where to start and how to help students grow when they have both academic and behavior needs. In this episode, Pierre Louis, BCBA will share insight on what we can do to help our students. This is a great episode for child study teams or student study teams that make decisions on student placement and learning! A lot of students who are just trying to catch up, are being labeled as having a learning disability or being moved to a more restrictive environment. We hope this episode sheds some light on this issue and some solutions! 

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What is a school counselor and how can they help your students? 

Press play and find out from school counselor John Burnett. John started his career as a Spanish middle school teacher. He worked as a family and mental health service specialist and is now a middle school counselor! He shares great tips for building relationships with students and promoting self-care for teachers! 

If you enjoyed this episode with John Burnett, I highly recommend you follow him on social media.

Instagram: Counselingwithmrb 

YouTube: counselingwithmrb 

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Let’s face it, we all have moments where we don’t feel like doing what we need to do. Our students feel the same way. We may not break things, curse, or push someone when we are upset about doing work, but our students might. If a student engages in disruptive behaviors that disrupt their learning or other students’ learning it presents a problem!

Dr. Hallie Ertel shares strategies of what we can do to prevent frustrations related to doing classroom assignments, important things to understand about behavior, how to react to problem behavior, and a variety of tools you can add to your toolbox!

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Do you have follow up questions for Dr. Hallie Ertel? Email her at [email protected]

This interview with Dr. David Lee, Department Head and Professor of Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education at Penn State University is packed full of insightful information for special education teachers, general education teachers, behavior analysts (BCBAs), and school psychologists. Dr. Lee contributed to over 20 research students including examining behavioral and social dynamics, improving classroom management in middle school classrooms, assessing student behaviors, increasing academic task completion, and supporting students with emotional and behavior disorders. 

Dr. Lee answers these questions and more! 

How can I increase student engagement? 

How can I encourage students to complete academic assignments? 

What should I keep in mind about social dynamics, specifically for our middle school students? 

How can teachers overcome common classroom management struggles? 

How can I support my students?

Resources 

If you want to review the research Dr. Lee has contributed to, click here. 

To learn more about special education check out OSEF or IRIS Center. 

If you have any questions related to these topics, feel free to email Dr. Lee or message us on our Instagram.

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Do you have a student who struggles learning new skills? Do you have students that learn a skill but later forget it? Do you have parents asking you for tutor recommendations or resources to help their children become better readers? 

In this interview, Chris Topham shares how to teach new skills and measure student progress by using applied behavior analysis. He shares what Direct Instruction is and what features make it effective for learners. He also touches on how we can be using Precision Teaching to better measure student progress. 

Learn more about Direct Instruction, Celeration Education, and resources to help your students! 

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