Teaching through Emotions

In this episode, I interview an old and dear friend, Sarah Becker, who has been teaching and teaching teachers and directing at the early childhood level for years. We discuss a topic that has always fascinated me (ever since I met Sarah and saw her in action): What do early childhood educators know that the rest of us teachers, from elementary through graduate school, can afford to learn?

We talk about

* basic tenets of early childhood education

* how those tenets apply at other educational levels

* emergent and project-based curriculum

* the concept of “professional love” (great concept!)

* what you can do tomorrow that will make you more present and effective whatever and wherever you teach

Here are links to certain things mentioned in the podcast:

Prospect Center

Prospect Center’s descriptive process

emergent curriculum

Vivian Paley You Can’t Say You Can’t Play

Tuvan throat singing

mentalization

being alone in the presence of mother (another)

Carol Garboden Murray Illuminating Care

Jools Page professional love

Paolo Freire and the banking metaphor of education

restorative practice

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In this first episode of the second season of Teaching through Emotions, my co-host Joe and I tell a story about a cheater in a class taught by someone who can’t stand cheating. Our psychodynamic take on the story might surprise you.

* We retell the outrageous lengths our cheater went to.

* We share the teacher’s visceral responses to the cheater.

* We wonder where the cheater’s True Self is.

* We clarify what the teacher’s contributions are and how she can change them.

* We tell how the story ended after the teacher did some emotion work on the problem.

* We suggest axioms teachers can take away from this example.

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