What Do You Teach?

On this episode I was joined by Sarah Woulfin (@sarahlouwou) on twitter.  Together we dove into how can instructional coaches actually be useful, good observation practices more generally, when to coaches lie to principals...scandalous, and finally we get into the one question all principals can ask teachers to figure out if they are a good teacher or not. 

On this episode I was joined by excellent teacher and comedian Joe Dombrowski to discuss the intersection of teaching and humor.  We talked about how to balance the double life that comes with being a teacher and a comic, shared some very funny stories and talked about whether being funny actually helps students learn. 

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James M. Lang is a Professor of English and the Director of the D’Amour Center for Teaching Excellence at Assumption College in Worcester, MA.  He is the author of six books, the most recent of which are Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It (Basic Books, 2020)

We sat down to discuss whether or not we should be grading participation and if so- how?

In the first episode of "What do You Teach?" I have a conversation with author of Visible Learning and director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute John Hattie.  We speak about how remote teaching changed the way classrooms will look going forward, whether or not remote learning actually changed student outcomes, and the difference between 'learning tasks' and 'doing tasks.'  I was very nervous for this.  Give it a listen.