163: It's Time to Give Classroom Jobs Another Try
The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast
Jennifer Gonzalez
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
These fresh ideas for student jobs will invigorate your classroom and get you and your students excited about school again—even if you teach remotely. My guest Thom Gibson shows us how he does it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Jennifer Gonzales, welcoming you to episode 163 of the Cult of pedagogy podcast. |
| 0:05.8 | In this episode. |
| 0:25.0 | At first, I just thought it was a neat idea, something teachers could implement pretty easily, |
| 0:30.0 | something that would be a nice change of pace from what we usually talk about. |
| 0:34.0 | But by the time I finished talking to my guest today, |
| 0:38.0 | I had convinced myself that this might actually be the thing |
| 0:41.0 | that helps wake up a lot of our remote and hybrid |
| 0:44.8 | classrooms from the white knuckle just get through it mentality I think some of |
| 0:49.7 | us have settled into as the 20-20-21 school year drags into its second half. Just maybe. |
| 0:58.4 | What we're talking about is classroom jobs. Jobs we assigned to students to help keep our |
| 1:04.8 | classrooms running. Now I know this is typically something we associate with |
| 1:09.3 | face-to-face classrooms during normal times but I was absolutely delighted, and I don't use the word |
| 1:15.8 | delighted every day, to learn that not only can we assign jobs to students in remote classes. |
| 1:23.5 | The jobs students do can not only make those remote classes |
| 1:28.1 | really, really enjoyable, but they can also |
| 1:30.9 | help students discover passions and develop talents that they can take with them well |
| 1:36.0 | beyond your class. My guest today is Tom Gibson, a middle school STEM teacher from Austin, Texas. |
| 1:44.0 | Tom has basically mastered the art of managing a whole program of classroom jobs, |
| 1:50.0 | and he's made that process work for remote learning too. |
| 1:54.1 | In today's conversation we talk about why setting up student jobs is such a good thing to do, |
| 2:00.1 | how to troubleshoot common problems with a jobs system and what some of Tom's favorite |
| 2:05.9 | classroom jobs are. |
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