155: How to Teach When Everyone's Scattered
The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast
Jennifer Gonzalez
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Some of your students are in school. Others are at home. Some days they might switch. Your students are all over the place, and you're supposed to be teaching them all. Welcome to 2020, baby. In this episode, I'll share six principles for making this situation work as best as you can, curated from teachers who are also figuring it out.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to Episode 155 of the Cult of Pedagogy podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | In this episode, I'll share some ideas from classrooms everywhere about how to teach when everyone is scattered. |
| 0:23.9 | Let's go back for a moment to a simpler time. Back to 2019, when you may have |
| 0:30.0 | quote, struggle to differentiate. When you try to meet the needs of all students who came to you |
| 0:35.3 | with different levels of readiness, different physical, emotional, and cognitive profiles, |
| 0:40.6 | and who learned best under different scenarios. 2020 laughs at 2019. Teaching is much more |
| 0:49.1 | complicated now and you are most likely in a situation where your students are scattered in some way. |
| 0:56.2 | It may be one or a combination of these. Maybe half your classes at home while the other half |
| 1:02.5 | is in person and then this switches the next day. Maybe some of your students are all virtual all the time. |
| 1:10.8 | And also maybe even the kids you do have face to face have to be socially distanced and therefore |
| 1:16.6 | can't interact the way they once could. Before, a teacher only had to worry about meeting |
| 1:22.4 | students where they were academically, socially, and emotionally. Now you literally have to figure |
| 1:28.1 | out a way to meet them where they are. Depending on who's running your school, you may be expected to do |
| 1:35.6 | any number of instructional gymnastics to keep all of these students engaged and on track. |
| 1:41.6 | Well, I'm not going to get into the sheds here because I addressed some of those in episode 149 |
| 1:49.6 | where we talked about 9 ways teaching should be different online than face to face. |
| 1:55.4 | And I also did a Facebook Live a couple of weeks ago where I did a pretty big rant about one |
| 2:04.1 | specific remote teaching problem. So I'm not going to talk too much about all of the sheds. |
| 2:11.4 | What I would like to do in this episode is just curate some of the ways that teachers have |
| 2:16.0 | solved the problem of teaching students who are literally all over the place. |
| 2:21.6 | Before we start, I want to thank UL Explore Labs for sponsoring this episode. |
| 2:26.3 | UL Explore Labs inspires secondary students to solve global safety and sustainability issues |
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