EDU@YourBest

By Matthew Moore

What's EDU@YourBest about?

Every educator has something they are really good at, we want to talk about it. EDU@YourBest is a conversation with anyone in education that wants to share their passion for teaching and learning. Hosted by Matthew Moore; Teacher, Author and Trainer.

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EDU@YourBest episodes:

01.12.2020
TL012 The Teacher's Lounge: Elisa Lewis Part 6 Final Thoughts
In this final episode with Elisa Lewis, we discuss both the connections and disconnects that working primarily outside the classroom creates. We discuss the unique opportunities and challenges that the role of academic liaison presents.
01.11.2020
TL011 The Teacher's Lounge: Teaching Outside the Classroom Part 5
This is part 5 of our ongoing series with Elisa Lewis an Academic Liaison and we discuss the broader perspective working in a school but not in a single classroom can provide. We discuss how many people in different roles...
12.19.2019
TL010 The Teacher's Lounge - Planning Intervention and Enrichment School-wide
In today's episode, we continue our short mini-series of interviews with Elisa Lewis. In this episode we talk about the planning and development role that Elisa plays in the school-wide RtI system. We talk about how using a 25 minute...
12.19.2019
TL009 Teacher's Lounge: Academic Liaison Part 2
In today's episode, we continue our short mini-series of interviews with Elisa Lewis, and Academic Liaison. In this episode we talk about the interplay between the liaison, student, and classroom teacher. We also continue to discuss some of the tightrope...
12.17.2019
TL008 The Teacher's Lounge: Academic Liaison Part 1: Teaching when you are not in the classroom.
Join me this episode as Elisa Lewis visits the Teacher's Lounge and we talk about her role as Academic Liaison. In this first part of our conversation we discuss her role with struggling students.
11.01.2019
TL007 The Teacher's Lounge - Seasons of Teaching
In today's episode, an encounter with an old high-school teacher of my own brings up the topic of reflection from the three of us about the changing seasons of our teaching careers. Join us as we talked about being an...
07.10.2019
Ask The FLN: Eirik Wattengard
Eirik Wattengard and I talk good practice for effective learning videos.
05.31.2019
POI025 All Flipping Summer Idea 5: The Long Follow
"Idea #5 Sharing your summer", centers on including students in an ongoing project or conversation that allows them to see progress, frustration, setbacks, problem solving, learning, etc. To differentiate what I am talking about in this entry from the last...
05.31.2019
POI024 All Flipping Summer Idea 4
This one is a big one. Find some way to take your students with you, digitally, this summer. Every life science teacher I know finds themselves in the forest or on the lake. Every English teacher I know has a...
05.31.2019
POI023 All Flipping Summer Idea 3 Pick Something
Q: How do you eat a whale? A: One bite at a time. It doesn't much matter where you start on any big project or adjustment to your classroom. The reality is you will likely not use the first thing...
05.31.2019
POI022 All Flipping Summer Idea 2 Grow Something
Take time this summer to find something "important" in your classroom or teaching that needs a little tending to grow to a more full potential. Knowing that summer allows for professional growth, we need to also make that growth a priority...
05.31.2019
POI021 All Flipping Summer Idea #1
I enjoy my job, most of the time, but I also look forward to summer. As a teacher I spend 9 1/2 months of the year balancing 150 teenage personalities on the ends of sticks and trying to move them...
04.20.2019
FlipBlogs: A Problems With Chromebooks
In this episode I try and think through a potential policy change for next year. I am beginning to look ahead at a few adjustments for my classroom next year. I have signs up in my classroom that forbid the...
04.19.2019
FlipBlogs What the Dynamo Teaches About Flipped Learning
This quick episode tells the story of how a BBC podcast by Tim Horford helped me realize a few things about flipped learning. I have found what many others have realized, flipped learning required a rethinking of the whole learning ecosystem. ...
04.19.2019
POI020 FlipFails5p2 My Answers So Far
In this episode, I give my answers to the three questions regarding "practice" brought up in our Flip Fails blog series. This blog is available here as a podcast, but is also available on www.flippedlearning.org in traditional blog format.
04.19.2019
POI019 FlipFails #5 Practice Makes Progress Part 1
In the Flip Fails #4 I ended with a list of concepts that my failures had forced me to reflect upon. Here are the first three as they popped into my head while writing. How much skill practice...
04.19.2019
POI018 Flipfail#4 Settling For A Fieldgoal
In this episode we continue our Flip Fail series and set the course for the next few entries. If I sum up all of my many failures in my first semester or 18 months of flipping my class I would...
04.12.2019
TLEAUB006 Teacher's Lounge: Field Trips
In this episode we talk field trips and all of the other things that take students out of the classroom. We also try to figure out a few aspects or measurements that can be used to make this time outside...
03.19.2019
POI017 Points of Interest: Flip Fails #3 Failing to Plan
What to do in the classroom Here is where we actually get the most common failure among young flipped classrooms, failing to appropriately plan for the group space. To this point, we have talked about planning for what should happen...
03.19.2019
POI016 Points of Interest: Flip Fails #2 - Trying to Ride Two Horses
A very common initial misstep for recently minted flipped classrooms is a teacher who is not fully committed to reorganizing their class in a meaningful way. In most cases, this is evidenced by flip teachers reteaching the flip lesson in...
03.16.2019
POI015 Points of Interest: Flip Fails #1 - EmphAsis on the wrong syllAble
This, hopefully short, series highlights various ways that you might cause yourself problems when planning or implementing a flipped classroom. Flip Fail #1 is confusing who the focus and beneficiary of the flipped classroom needs to be. I relate my...
03.13.2019
EDU@YourBest The Teacher's Lounge ep004 Multitasking
We focus in this episode about the tendency we all have, but specifically that young people have, to believe that we can efficiently multitask. While classrooms need to include variety and choice, the ideas that a single student cam effectively...
03.13.2019
EDU@YourBest The Teacher's Lounge ep003 Behavior Grades
In this episode we discuss some of the many ways behavior and achievement can be combined or separated. Much like our previous discussion of extra credit, this discussion takes us afield into a variety of education areas and grading constructs....
03.13.2019
EDU@YourBest The Teacher's Lounge ep001 Extra Credit
In this episode we tackle Bryan's topic of "extra credit". This lightening rod topic begins what has turned out to be a multi-episode thread on the nature of grading and assessment. From the term itself, to the implied impact for...
03.13.2019
EDU@YourBest The Teacher's Lounge ep001
In this episode we do attempt to give you a small picture of who we are and what we are up to in our classrooms. We talk about the rise of tech in the classroom. We discuss the changing expectations...
01.09.2019
POI014 Points of Interest Myth #9 "I know What Flipped Is..."
This is the audioblog form of the Flipped Learning Myths series at flippedlearning.org In this episode I discuss a few lessons about flipped learning and my profession I learned from my other hobby.
12.16.2018
POI013 Myth #8 “I understand what flipped learning is”
"I know what flip is" As the cycles of education ideas and vocabulary wax and wane it is easy to confuse familiarity with an education term with understanding.of that methodology. Flipped learning has now been in education circles long enough...
11.24.2018
Points Of Interest 012 Myth 7 Part 2 "Best for ALL Students"
Okay so if flipped learning can be adapted to students on the two tails or extremes of the normal curve, and if flipped learning is malleable and effective enough to be customized to various student groups, is there anyone for...
11.18.2018
Points Of Interest 011- Digital Natives and Flipped Learning
This audioblog is the companion piece to the original blog at flippedlearning.org I discuss the role and relationship of research and flipped learning to the idea of the digital native. Join us.
11.05.2018
Points Of Interest 010 Myth #4 Homework At Home
The basis of flipped learning myth #4 is the second half of the definition of flipped as “videos at home/ homework at school” In the previous post for Myth #3 we discussed the limitations of defining flipped learning as “videos at...
11.05.2018
Points Of Interest 009 Myth #3 Instruction at Home
The basis of flipped learning myth #3 can be found in the limited definition of flipped learning as “videos at home / homework at school”. We discuss how this definition is a viral yet limited view of flipped learning. check...
11.05.2018
Points Of Interest 008 Myth #2 Flipping is Easy
The second misconception about flipped learning is “flipped learning is easy for the teacher”. There is a tempting element of flipped learning that if the students are watching videos, and the students are doing homework, then the teacher is free...
11.05.2018
Points Of Interest 007 Flip Myth #1
I hope to cover just a couple myths about flipping in the next few blogs. The first two have to be grouped together because they are opposite sides of the same coin and both address the real and perceived effort...
11.05.2018
Points Of Interest 006 - Myth # 5 Revisited
Previously I attempted to debunk flipped learning myth number five that states “no tech is needed to flip”. I still believe that for flipped learning in the modern classroom this is a true statement; however, I must admit there are...
10.31.2018
POI 005 Myth # 7 FLIP is best for ALL students
This is the audioblog for the blog of the same name found at www.flippedlearning.org
10.26.2018
POI 004 Just run a Cable thru a Wall ... #flipblogs
I short audio record of all of the things necessary to get my classroom planning done on what should have been a peaceful Sunday afternoon. Another entry in the #flipblogs series.
10.26.2018
POI 003 Fiddle-Farting Is More Fun Than Working
This week my job really got in the way of my fiddlefarting. In this blog I discuss what I would rather be doing than what I have to do as an educator. Listen in and enjoy.
10.26.2018
POI 002 Myth # 6 - “Flipped learning results in overuse of technology”
Myth number 6 is “flipped learning results in overuse of technology”. Myth number 5 was “no tech is needed for flipping”. Like most teaching and learning myths, this myth has a flip side of the coin as well and that leads...
10.21.2018
Points Of Interest 001 - Myth #5 Flipped Learning & Mickey Mouse
This episode addresses a common myth about flipped learning that no technology or video is required. I use Mickey Mouse as an example of the necessity to join sight and sound with text to realize the full potential of flipped...
10.13.2018
EAUB014 Central Illinois Professional Development Institute
I sat down with Dr. Kristen Kendrick-Weikle following a two day regional professional development institute to talk about the need for collaboration and professional growth. With limited financial resources for professional development, we talk about opportunities and benefits that can...
10.10.2018
EAUB013: Talking New School w/ Jennifer Brummer
Mrs. Brummer is a teaching veteran of 19 years in the science classroom, but this year she began a new chapter at a new school. We discussed what it is like to move from a long term teaching job in...
09.18.2018
EAUBep12 Talking DeltaMath with Zach Korzyk
In this episode I had the opportunity to sit down with Zack Korzyk via webcam and talk about this game changing math tool. DeltaMath (found at DeltaMath.com) is an infinite practice set program that allows students to practice to success...
09.08.2018
EAUB11 Educating Expectant and Parenting Students with Adrian Moody
This episode we talk with guidance counselor Adrian Moody about addressing the needs of expectant and parenting students. Research shows that the responsibilities and challenges of pregnancy and parenting can have a significant impact on a student's educational success. In...
08.27.2018
EAUB Get to know EDU@YourBest: Everything great in education
This is our first official week of the podcast and we are kicking out some of the content we have compiled for a strong start and for you to get to know us. Follow us on twitter @EDUatYourBest and check...
08.15.2018
EAUB10b Nick Walsh - Fire For Effect (Short Version)
This shortened podcasts highlights the key steps in the process of making FFE and the details of its inaugural local viewing in September 2018. The extended trailer for Fire For Effect - A Grassroots History of the Vietnam War can...
08.14.2018
EAUB10 Nick Walsh & Fire For Effect: A Grassroots History of the Vietnam War
Nick Walsh is a long time educator and historian that has spent the last eight years documenting and compiling a documentary focused on the Vietnam War and the role played by Decatur and the surrounding area. Fire For Effect: A Grassroots...
08.07.2018
EAUB09 Talking Teacher Shortage with Sean German
I sit down and discuss not only the problem of teacher shortage, but also a few steps each school can take to be part of the solution. Mr. German is an experienced principal of 17 years, and we have a...
08.06.2018
EAUB08 Talking SADD with Katie Boltz
In this episode I sit down with Katie Boltz and talk about how to reach kids and communities with a positive message about making positive decisions. Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) can still make a difference but it requires addressing...
07.29.2018
EAUB07 Talking WSQ with Crystal Kirch
In this episode we talk the Watch-Summarize-Question Method or WSQ with Crystal Kirch. We also talk all about her book Flipping With Kirch. This book is available from her blog at http://flippingwithkirch.blogspot.com/ or from Amazon.
07.19.2018
EAUB06: Talking Twitter With Chris Baker
Chris Baker is a name I have known and someone I have talked to online for a few years now, but this is the first opportunity I had to meet him in real life. We sat down and talked about...

What's EDU@YourBest about?

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EDU@YourBest episodes:

TL012 The Teacher's Lounge: Elisa Lewis Part 6 Final Thoughts

TL011 The Teacher's Lounge: Teaching Outside the Classroom Part 5

TL010 The Teacher's Lounge - Planning Intervention and Enrichment School-wide

TL009 Teacher's Lounge: Academic Liaison Part 2

TL008 The Teacher's Lounge: Academic Liaison Part 1: Teaching when you are not in the classroom.

TL007 The Teacher's Lounge - Seasons of Teaching

Ask The FLN: Eirik Wattengard

POI025 All Flipping Summer Idea 5: The Long Follow

POI024 All Flipping Summer Idea 4

POI023 All Flipping Summer Idea 3 Pick Something

POI022 All Flipping Summer Idea 2 Grow Something

POI021 All Flipping Summer Idea #1

FlipBlogs: A Problems With Chromebooks

FlipBlogs What the Dynamo Teaches About Flipped Learning

POI020 FlipFails5p2 My Answers So Far

POI019 FlipFails #5 Practice Makes Progress Part 1

POI018 Flipfail#4 Settling For A Fieldgoal

TLEAUB006 Teacher's Lounge: Field Trips

POI017 Points of Interest: Flip Fails #3 Failing to Plan

POI016 Points of Interest: Flip Fails #2 - Trying to Ride Two Horses

POI015 Points of Interest: Flip Fails #1 - EmphAsis on the wrong syllAble

EDU@YourBest The Teacher's Lounge ep004 Multitasking

EDU@YourBest The Teacher's Lounge ep003 Behavior Grades

EDU@YourBest The Teacher's Lounge ep001 Extra Credit

EDU@YourBest The Teacher's Lounge ep001

POI014 Points of Interest Myth #9 "I know What Flipped Is..."

POI013 Myth #8 “I understand what flipped learning is”

Points Of Interest 012 Myth 7 Part 2 "Best for ALL Students"

Points Of Interest 011- Digital Natives and Flipped Learning

Points Of Interest 010 Myth #4 Homework At Home

Points Of Interest 009 Myth #3 Instruction at Home

Points Of Interest 008 Myth #2 Flipping is Easy

Points Of Interest 007 Flip Myth #1

Points Of Interest 006 - Myth # 5 Revisited

POI 005 Myth # 7 FLIP is best for ALL students

POI 004 Just run a Cable thru a Wall ... #flipblogs

POI 003 Fiddle-Farting Is More Fun Than Working

POI 002 Myth # 6 - “Flipped learning results in overuse of technology”

Points Of Interest 001 - Myth #5 Flipped Learning & Mickey Mouse

EAUB014 Central Illinois Professional Development Institute

EAUB013: Talking New School w/ Jennifer Brummer

EAUBep12 Talking DeltaMath with Zach Korzyk

EAUB11 Educating Expectant and Parenting Students with Adrian Moody

EAUB Get to know EDU@YourBest: Everything great in education

EAUB10b Nick Walsh - Fire For Effect (Short Version)

EAUB10 Nick Walsh & Fire For Effect: A Grassroots History of the Vietnam War

EAUB09 Talking Teacher Shortage with Sean German

EAUB08 Talking SADD with Katie Boltz

EAUB07 Talking WSQ with Crystal Kirch

EAUB06: Talking Twitter With Chris Baker