The Beautiful Struggle

By F.R.E.D.

I struggle as a father, husband, educator, GenXer and more, all the while trying to live life more fully.

Join me as I figure out what it means to be a modern father using the 4P's of parenting.... more

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The podcast currently has 252 episodes available.

The Beautiful Struggle episodes:

January 26, 2015 007: What Are You Struggling With?
In this episode, we share the struggles we're currently facing and how we're pushing through them. We discuss our attempts of using several strategies of taking the negative stuff and turning them into positives.

Maybe you can relate with what we're sharing, or maybe you've already turned your struggles into positives, join us and see if this all sounds familiar.

Please subscribe, rate and give an honest review as it'll make our show better. It also helps us be discovered by other like minded educators.

YOU are appreciated!

Thank you!

Fred & Sharon

www.teachingbites.com

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37min
January 20, 2015 006: Burnt Out on Teacher Burnout
Have you ever felt burnt out? Of course you have! We bet you've even read quite a few tips and strategies on how to prevent and deal with teacher burn out. Well, here is our take on teacher burnout and hear about The 6 Fingered Man!

Join us and please subscribe, rate and leave an honest review so we can get better and be discovered by other awesome teachers!
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19min
January 13, 2015 005: So You Want to Be a Teacher?
A good friend is considering a career change and wants to be a teacher. In this episode, we share our tips and experiences on what to do BEFORE credential school. These tips will help guide the aspiring teacher on what they need to do to help build their skills and passion in teaching.
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33min
January 13, 2015 005: So, You Want To Be A Teacher?

HOW TO BECOME A TEACHER

A good friend is considering a career change and wants to be a teacher. In this episode, we share our tips and experiences on what to do BEFORE credential school. These tips will help guide the aspiring teacher on what they need to do to help build their skills and passion in teaching.
We drove from the Bay Area to LA and it was nice to see the landscape green again. After several years of severe drought, we had some major storms the past month and it helped make the mountains and plain beautiful again.

* We want to give you some practical ways to help you down the journey of becoming a teacher to give you a head start!

* TBP update

* Christmas vacation
* We are on iTunes! “New & Noteworthy”
* Technical issues/RSS
* Elance – Nick and Florante
* Redesign
* Speakpipe – leave a free voice message up to 90 seconds long

* So you want to be a teacher?

* Friend is interested in a career change and is truly interested in teaching

* Gain experience in different age groups/settings

* Observe a teacher/classroom
* FINGERPRINTED first and foremost; various age groups
* Volunteer
* After school tutoring programs
* Summer/Day Camps
* Substituting- check with local/state requirements
* Teach abroad (JET, Teach For America, Peace Corps, etc.)

* Create a Personal Learning Network (staying up-to-date)- FB, Twitter, teacher forums, education sites (useful as a teacher also) like Edutopia, Edweek, State website and colleges/universities

* connections/network with other educators- family, friends, HS counselors, libraries

* Skills that will supplement your teaching

* tech skills

* GAFE, iPAD/Laptop workflow, Apps, Search, basic troubleshooting
* STEM/Maker Movement

* Fluency practice- read aloud, asking comprehension questions/vocabulary- context clues

* check your desired state you want to teach in for credential requirements- discounts (credential program, fingerprint, CPR/1st Aid)- master’s degree (combined credential), multiple vs. single subject credential, teaching credentials—> administration credential (give yourself options for the future)
* familiarize yourself w/the Common Core State Standards
* Tests: CBEST, CSET, National Board Certification, RICA, Liberal Studies Majors, read about students with learning differences, ELL’s, SEL, learn about different cultures

* Professional Portfolio

* Updated Resumé
* Have a Blog/Webpage
* LinkedIn
* Google searching for you (HR will search you!)

* FB clean profile; control privacy
* Control web footprint

Review:
Get experience,
PLN
Tech Skills
Fluency Practice
Prof. Portfolio

* Closing: Thank you all for joining us. Please leave an honest rating and review as it’ll help us make our show better and helps our show be discovered by teachers and others interested in education. Subscribe to our webpage, teachingbites, our FB page, facebook.com/teachingbites and our iTunes Podcast

* Resources/Links

* Teach.org
* Praxis– check out each state’s requirements for the general teaching certificate exam such as the Praxis

Music
“Presenterator” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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33min
December 22, 2014 004: The Hour of Code & Beyond!
Today, we talk about what the Hour of Code is all about, why to participate in it. We break down the 4C's of 21st Century learning and computational thinking. We then share what cool projects we've done to go beyond the Hour of Code in your the classroom.
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34min
December 22, 2014 004: Hour of Code & Beyond

In this episode, we talk about the Hour of Code. What is it? What does it do? Why should we particiapte and more importantly, how do we integrate coding in school. We go beyond the hour and share how we truly integrate Scratch programming into student projects. Check it out and let us know what you think!

Episode #4 [Four is the only number that has the same number of characters as its value in the English language; Fab 4:
Hour of Code & Beyond

* We are on Winter Break!!! LA, Disneyland

* What is the Hour of Code? Dec. 8-14

* International movement by the non-profit organization Code.org where their goal is to have every student, in every school have the opportunity to participate in computer science. Part of STEM, STEAM, STEMM, STREAM. Another purpose- so that our students will be able to have the necessary skills for their future careers as computer programming is much more in demand.
* Major tech companies provides easy mini lessons based in popular games/movies.
* Unplugged- Robot Turtles board game

* Our own experiences growing up

* Logo: Turtle- Apple IIE

* Why should people, and our students in particular, participate and learn how to code?

* Creativity, Critical thinking, Collaboration, Communication skills (4C’s & Common Core), esp having students code in pairs or more

* Computational thinking (via Wikipedia)

* Analyzing and logically organizing data; breaking things down
* Data modeling, abstractions, and simulations
* Formulating problems such that computers may assist
* Identifying, testing, and implementing possible solutions
* Automating solutions via algorithmic thinking
* Generalizing and applying this process to other problems

* Helps us, our students use their knowledge about basic coding in their everyday lives and in their professional lives. Maybe surgeons will use robots and help identify the code, or be able to vote or make legislation that maybe pivotal to the internet/robotics future and basic troubleshooting

* How can you integrate coding/programming into class projects

* LightBot- math: circles-rotations, degrees; cool music
* SCRATCH-going beyond the powerpoint/keynote presentation by creating interactive stories/games; easier to have people understand and interact with animation than bullet points

* It’s free!
* MIT and Harvard Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab
* Here are three student projects for you to try out. Keep in mind, that everything was made by the students. All names have been removed.

* Cons of having everyone learn how to code

* Jeff Atwood

* Thank you all for joining us. Please leave an honest rating and comment for feedback. It’ll help us make our show better and helps our show be discovered by other teachers and people like you interested in education.

* Check out our FREE Teach Your Students to Code Quickly with Scratch Programming Basics PDF in our Teachers Pay Teachers Store!

* Please visit our site: teachingbites.com to subscribe; and visit and like our FB at facebook.com/teachingbites.

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34min
December 20, 2014 003: How to Engage Students: Listening & Responding
In this episode, we share our favorite strategies on how to engage with our students and how to encourage responses from them.
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30min
December 20, 2014002: Attention Grabbers
Episode #2: Attention-Grabbers

Intro- What's going on in our lives/classrooms

Thanksgiving

bowling

Fun Fact: Overhead Projector

opening our new flexible maker space

Tables, Chairs, stools, beach pillows

Building materials (cardboard, masking tape, duct tape, scissors) for fast prototyping and

Cain’s Arcade

Friend and a colleague visiting to get ideas

Storm/flood discussion & research teachable moment, went outside

Attention Getters/Grabbers

Survey! Reminder! Announcement!

1, 2 Eyes on Me!

Hands on top, now we stop

pack it up, pack it in (House of Pain’s Jump Around)

Waterfall in 3, 2, 1…. shh……

bump X5.. bump bump!

hocus… focus!

To infinity… and beyond! Description

Thank you all for joining us. Please leave a rating and comment for feedback. It’ll help us make our show better. Please visit our site: teachingbites.com to subscribe; and visit and like our FB at facebook.com/teachingbites

Links:

30 Techniques to Quiet a Noisy Class

Pinterest Link

Buzzfeed’s 27 Attention Getters For Quieting a Noisy Class

Cain’s Arcade

Overhead projectors: From bowling to classroom

Overhead projectors: police ID work

Music

"Presenterator" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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32min
December 20, 2014 001: Introduction

This is our first episode of the Teaching Bites Podcast. We introduce ourselves and go over our combined 30+ years of teaching experience and innovation strategies with you.
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13min
December 20, 2014 003: How to Engage Students: Listening & Responding

Episode #3 How to Engage Students Listening & Responding
This is, the Teaching Bites Podcast. The Unprofessional Development We Need.

* Intro Question OR What’s this EP is About OR The Problem

* Do you ever have a hard time trying to get your S to listen & respond?

* Listening Ways

* Ask 3, Then Ask Me
* Think, Pair, Share directions/instructions

* have partner share out what other said
* reference vid in show notes of teacher rdg text/S TPS

* Ask S to explain concept to whole class/group; TRIBES
* Talking piece
* Clamshell for devices (iPads, laptops)

* Fun Fact Headphones (1910 by Nathaniel Baldwin, who made them by hand in his kitchen and sold them to the United States Navy.

* John C. Koss, jazz musician from Milwaukee produced first stereo headphones
* Signal word to start (“GO!”)

* Responding Ways

* Think, Pair, Share- thumbs up, then share

* TP Group Share
* POW Share (partner of week, use milling to music [Spotify, iTunes, radio, etc.- all resources], why I use it- get to know partner, so S get up, use for select activities, NOT all!)

* equity sticks- each S’s name on a popsicle stick, helps me call on ALL students
* Move around class to answer questions using cardinal directions (ex- North=yes, South= no, etc.)
* Check for understanding

* exit ticket; standing and answering questions
* how do you feel about this strategy? thumbs up, side, down; stand up to show how many questions they got wrong on an assignment

* Do you need other awesome ways to keep your class running smoothly all year long? Check out this FREE download- Ways to Have a Stress Free Classroom! Some examples- establishing strong parent relationships, field trips, substitute plans, how to create effective groups, device management, etc!

Resources/Links

* Edutopia Say What? 5 Ways to Get Students to Listen
* Children Discovering Justice Lesson 2 Turn & Talk – Think, Pair, Share

Music
“Presenterator” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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30min

FAQs about The Beautiful Struggle:

How many episodes does The Beautiful Struggle have?

The podcast currently has 252 episodes available.