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By Teachers Going GradelessEducation
TG2Cast episodes
- Episode 4 - Experts in the Classroom with Starr Sackstein
This episode features an interview with Starr Sackstein, author of the book Peer Feedback in the Classroom and Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School.
Topics include:
- What are peer experts?
- Why use peer experts?
- How to implement peer experts in the classroom
- How to maximize the effectiveness of peer experts
21 min - What are peer experts?
- Episode 3 - Shift This! with Joy Kirr
This episode features an interview with Joy Kirr, author of the book Shift This! How to Implement Gradual Changes for MASSIVE Impact in Your Classroom.
Topics include:
- Why Joy decided to write the book
- How to create a positive classroom culture
- Dilemmas of grading and reporting learning
- How to implement Genius Hour
- Other shifts Joy is making after publishing the book
26 min - Why Joy decided to write the book
- Episode 2 - Why I Don't Grade with Jesse Stommel
This episode features an interview with Jesse Stommel, Executive Director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies at University of Mary Washington. He is Co-founder of Digital Pedagogy Lab and Hybrid Pedagogy: a digital journal of learning, teaching, and technology. In addition to his focus on digital and critical pedagogy, Jesse has been a gradeless educator for his entire career, as he recounts in his blog post "Why I Don't Grade."
Topics include:
- Why grades are "the biggest and most insidious obstacle to education”
- How de-emphasizing grades coincides with a pedagogy of equity and social justice
- Why a gradeless space will not automatically be an equitable one
- How seemingly neutral platforms can flatten differences and influence pedagogies
- How we need to think about going gradeless in order it to be liberatory, transformative, an act of resistance
33 min - Why grades are "the biggest and most insidious obstacle to education”
- Episode 1 - Providing Feedback to Writers with Patty McGee
This episode features an interview with Patty McGee, author of the book Feedback That Moves Writers Forward.
Topics include:
- How to use the "Power of Three" in feedback.
- Strategies to help the stuck and reluctant writers
- The importance of setting writing goals
- How and when to introduce grammar
- How feedback works at the middle, secondary, and college levels
28 min - How to use the "Power of Three" in feedback.
About TG2Cast
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This is the podcast of Teachers Going Gradeless. Each episode focuses on progressive education and how teachers can transform teaching and learning when they grade less.