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We continue our conversation from Episode 35, as we discuss the finer details of lesson planning: grabbing student attention and reflecting on the lesson.

Grab & Maintain Student Attention

• Use random selection in calling upon students (pop sticks, give warning)
• Vary who you call on and how you call on them (plan for who you will call on, fertilize the conversation)
• Ask questions before calling on a student; wait at least five seconds for a response, allow for second wait time
• Be animated; show enthusiasm and interest (vegas lounge act, humor)
• Vary instructional methods
• Provide work of appropriate difficulty
• Demonstrate and model the types of responses or tasks you want students to perform
• Provide guided practice for students; monitor responses and deliver immediate corrective feedback

Reflection on Your Lesson

• Summarize the lesson and focus on positive gains made by students; use surprise reinforcers as a direct result of their good behavior
• Determine if the lesson was successful; were goals accomplished? How do you know?
• What would/could you do differently?

Information we discussed was sourced from: http://www.kean.edu/~tpc/Classroom%20Management/EFFECTIVE%20LESSON%20PLANNING%20&%20Classroom%20Mgmt.htm

• AJ: Partial Credit
• Chris: Serial Season 3
• Stacey: Hysteria

Some of you love them. Some of you hate them. No matter how you feel you have to create them. Today, we’re talking lesson planning.

From Wikipedia…

But… planning involves so much more! Today we will be exploring the classroom environment and developing positive teacher/student relationships.

Establish a positive classroom environment

• Make the classroom a pleasant, friendly place
• Accept individual differences
• Learning activities should be cooperative and supportive
• Create a non-threatening learning environment
• Organize physical space; eliminate situations that may be dangerous or disruptive
• Establish classroom rules and procedures and consistently reinforce them

Develop positive teacher/student relationships

• Set a good example; be a positive role model
• Create an exciting learning environment for all students
• Reward good behavior; create special activities that children will enjoy doing
• Correct misbehaviors; have consequences of disruptive behavior; communicate them to children
• Handling disruptions
• Keep it short and simple (KISS)
• Use a warning system
• Defer disruptive behavior proactively (eye contact, close space between you and student, use head/hand gestures)
• Help students be successful
• Use planned ignoring (and teach other students to also ignore)

Information we discussed was sourced from: http://www.kean.edu/~tpc/Classroom%20Management/EFFECTIVE%20LESSON%20PLANNING%20&%20Classroom%20Mgmt.htm

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• Chris: Looking fwd to commuting to work again and getting back into my regular podcast listening groove!
• Stacey: The Daily Refresh with John Lee Dumas 1724

Thanks, @STEMroundtable for your feedback!

• You guys are great! I had a very fulfilling experience with my student teacher and still are friends with him today. You will figure it out as you go what they are like and where you can be a help to them. Appreciate all the good podcasting. Would I be able to get into the Voxer group by chance? Thank you and keep up the good work!

During the Fall 2018 semester, Chris and AJ will both have student teachers working with them. Neither has ever had a student teacher before and both are excited for the opportunity to work with one.

Some of the questions discussed include:

• How does a student teacher impact the evaluation process?
• What does the ideal classroom look like when a student teacher is present?
• How much do you expose a student teacher to the world of the connected educator?

Prior to this conversation, Chris began researching the topic and referenced the following articles:

• Ten Tips for Mentoring a Student Teacher (ASCD)
• How to Mentor a Student Teacher (TeachHub.com)
• 9 Tips for Supervising Student Teachers (Edutopia)

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In ep 33 we talked about how to engage Ss during the first days of school and get them hooked. Well, ASCD published a blog post in between when we recorded and when we released the episode. The post was titled, “6 Questions To Ask Your Students On Day One.” Here are the 6 questions:

1. What are you passionate about?
2. How do you want to be recognized?
3. What do you see as your greatest strength?
4. What name do you want used when calling on you in class?
5. What will a successful school year look and feel like at the end of the year?
6. What are the characteristics or attributes you want in a teacher?

The beginning of another school is upon many of us and some teachers do amazing things on the first few days while others either don’t know how or can’t or think they can’t make the first few days of school engaging and less about the rules and regulations.

In this episode, we discuss and explore a number of ideas you can implement at the beginning of the school year. Our conversation was inspired by an episode of StartED Up with Don Wettrick.

• The Toilet Paper Game
• Rock, Paper, Scissors
• 30 Circles

We also speak to special guest, Robbie Lindes about his own experiences on the first days of school from a student’s perspective.

Rather than recommend additional episodes and podcasts, these are the podcast episodes we’ve used so far in our Summer Podcast Listening Group:

• Cult of Pedagogy, episode 90 – OMG Becky. PD is Getting SO MUCH BETTER.
• Future Focused Podcast, episode 2 – Goal Setting Workshop: How to Set Goals to Change Your Life
• The 5 AM Miracle, episode 27 – Service and Selflessness at Work: An Interview with August Turak
• StartED Up – Promise Me You will NOT Start Your School Year Off with This
• Mindshift – Be the Change You Want to See
• Focus 3 Podcast, episode 39 – A Turning Point in Education

This episode is the second part of our conversation about George Couros’ published an article on his blog titled, ‘4 Reflection Questions for the End of the School Year’. In this conversation, we address questions three and four.

This Episodes Questions:

• What things will I challenge myself with next year?
• How will all of these answers impact the learners I serve?

• Chris: Hidden Brain – When Everything Clicks
• AJ: Better Leaders Better Schools – Leading w/o Labels, Finding Your Culture of Compassion
• Stacey: Great Women of Business – E1: Coco Chanel and E2: Julia Child 

Recently, George Couros published an article on his blog titled, ‘3 Reminders for the End of the School Year.’ In his call to action, he had readers share their suggestions. He ran with one person’s suggestion about the value of reflection, in his next post, ‘4 Reflection Questions for the End of the School Year’.

Four Reflection Questions:

• What did I do well this year?
• Where do I need to grow?
• What things will I challenge myself with next year?
• How will all of these answers impact the learners I serve?

• Chris: ESPN 30 for 30 – Bickram
• AJ: Live Like A Mother
• Stacey: Making Obama

Jay Billy is an elementary principal in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Jay received his master’s degree in educational leadership from The College of New Jersey in 1997. He first served as supervisor of behavior at the high school before moving to the principal of the Joseph Cappello School in 2000.

He has worked for Lawrence Township Public Schools since 2007. He maintains his passion for leading and learning and innovative practices inside schools and classrooms by reading and working with his colleagues. Jay is passionate about making school and learning fun and engaging for everyone in the community, including Teachers, Students, and Families. He received the 2016 Exemplary Educator award from the New Jersey Dept. of Education. Jay is active on Twitter @JayBilly2, and you can often find him in his office dreaming of making school amazing and doing school differently.

Resources Mentioned:

• Lead with Culture: What Really Matters in Our Schools

• Jay: Cult of Pedagogy, StartEdUp, House of #EdTech, Truth for Teachers

Matt Larson is a wonder-er, a family man, an animal lover and true believer in education. He’s a physical education teacher from New Jersey who LOVES to read and through his love of reading, he harnesses his talent for connecting people. Through Voxer, Matt has lead a number of virtual book studies, continues to lead conversations around great education texts, and is truly moving the education needle on professional development.

Resources Mentioned:

• Drive – Dan Pink
• The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined – Salman Khan
• Customers who viewed Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education
• Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
• Mathematical Mindsets: Unleashing Students’ Potential through Creative Mathematics

Also mentioned…

• Hoopla – Free Audio Books
• Paul O’Neill – PLN365

• Stacey: UP First, TechMeme Ride Home, StartUp
• Chris: Cobra Kai on YouTube RED
• AJ: EDU Match Tweet and Talks
• Matt: TLTalk Radio, School Leadership Series, Better Leaders Better Schools, DitchPod, Transformative Principal

Nerd Camp is an EdCamp inspired conference with an exclusive focus on literacy instruction. The workshop board is built prior to the conference, but the spirit of collaboration and flexibility remains strong. Teachers, librarians, administrators, teacher educators and local authors come to Nerd Camp to present and attend workshops for FREE.

Our guest today is Oona Abrams, a graduate of The College of Mount Saint Vincent and Manhattanville College, Oona teaches English at Chatham High School. Oona has presented and collaborated with colleagues at the NCTE, CEL, NJCTE, NJWA and EdTechNJ conferences, and she has been a guest blogger for NCTE and The Nerdy Book Club. She served as editor of English Leadership Quarterly from 2014 until 2018. Professional learning is one of her greatest passions, and attending #nErDCampMI and #nErDCampLI inspired her to launch #nErDCampNJ as her Genius Hour professional development project in 2017. She lives with her husband and sons in northern New Jersey.

Resources & Authors Mentioned:

• Colby Sharpe
• Donalynn Miller
• Cindy Minnich
• Katherine Sokolowski
• The Nerdy Book Club
• Hillary Homsey
• Alexandria LaFaye
• Sally J Pla
• Andrea Loney
• Josh Funk
• Jeff Zentner
• Tom Rinaldi
• NERDCAMPNJ

Also mentioned…

• Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today

• Chris: Check out the NEW House of #EdTech Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing Skill
• AJ: Golficity Podcast
• Stacey: Hidden Brain – Emma, Carrie, Vivian: How A Family Became A Test Case For Forced Sterilizations
• Oona: The Moth Podcast, ADHD Rewired Podcast