How We Teach This

Adapting a course from face-to-face to online is not an easy task. In this episode, Dr. Jennifer Moss from Emporia State University's Department of Psychology discusses how she implemented OER into her course while transitioning her courses online due to the COVID pandemic.

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"This idea of kids need to comply with us because we're the adults and they're the child and they make a poor choice and there has to have a punishment.... quite frankly, those days are over."

"I had that mindset early on in my career. Looking back on it, when we know better we do better. When I started learning more about the impact of trauma...that's when my life took more of a swing towards to the positive," said Dustin Springer, Principal of Gray Hawk Elementary, USD 458 Basehor-Linwood.

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Dr. Kevin Rabas and Dr. Amy Sage Webb-Baza from Emporia State University's Department of English, Modern Languages, and Journalism discuss ballroom dancing, their reasons for adding Open Educational Resources (OER) into their creative writing courses, and express gratitude for the many resources available to help them with the transition.

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"When I started learning more about the impact of trauma...that's when my life took more of a swing towards to the positive," said Dustin Springer, Principal of Gray Hawk Elementary, USD 458 Basehor-Linwood. Learn about his progression in social emotional learning in the next episode of How We Teach This.

Meet these first-year teachers who began teaching during the pandemic: Jenna Pennington (BSE 19) and Dylan Schneider (BSE 20). They share their experiences offering advice from what they have learned. 

Dylan shares, "An escalated adult cannot de-escalate  a child," and Jenna shares, "My motto for the year has been, do what is best for kids."

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“As a student, I struggled at times going to the bookstore at the start of the semester and plopping down hundreds and hundreds of dollars for books - at the end, I sell back at one-tenth the price. As a teacher, that concerns me,” said Dr. Stewart Gardner.

In this episode, Dr. Joelle Spotswood interviews Dr. Gardner from the Department of Biological Sciences at Emporia State University. He shares his experience with using both traditional textbooks and open educational resources and why he prefers one over the other.

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Meet these first-year teachers who began teaching during the pandemic (both alumni of Emporia State University): Jenna Pennington (BSE 19) and Dylan Schneider (BSE 20). 

"If you don't have the SEL piece in place, the instructional component isn't going to be as effective," said this week's guest, John Allison, recently retired superintendent of Olathe USD 233. We've got to try to address both if we want to actually achieve the results and the have the opportunity for growth in not only the intellectual side, but the emotional and character side of developing students for their future."

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Dr. Jasmine Linabary from Emporia State University's Department of Communication and Theatre discusses her motivation for adding an Open Education Resource textbook into her course and how that has inspired her and her department to look at creating an OER for their public speaking course.

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"If you don't have the SEL piece in place, the instructional component isn't going to be as effective," said guest, John Allison, recently retired superintendent of Olathe USD 233. Learn more from him in the upcoming podcast where education majors interview him.