This is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to episode 24 of the Cult of Pedagogy Podcast.

In this episode, I'm going to talk about five common teaching practices I'm kicking to the curb.

You know, we're all doing the best we can. Every teacher, we are using some things that we've

picked up from other people and sometimes we read methodology books and we try stuff out there.

Other times we're told to teach certain things in a certain way, but some of us,

actually I'd say all of us, have some teaching practices that we use just sort of because it's

the way we were taught and we don't even think about it. We just sort of do things because that's

just what you do in this situation. And so what I'm hoping to do with this episode is point out

some of those things that a whole lot of teachers do just almost by habit, but they actually have

no basis in research and some of them are actually kind of harmful to students or to learning.

So these are five things that a lot of teachers do on a regular basis that they probably shouldn't do.

And before I start talking about each of them, I will admit that I have used every single one of these.

Some of them I used a lot when I was in the classroom and it's one of those things where if you

know better, you do better. So now that I know a little bit more about the research behind these,

I would avoid them in the future. But I'm going to talk about why I used each one of them.

And for each one also, we will be talking about what you could and should do instead of using these.

So I do not want to leave you empty handed. For some of these, there's such common practices that

if the teacher is told that they really shouldn't be doing it, their first answer would be what

am I supposed to do instead. So I'm going to be giving you replacements for all of these two.

Okay, the first one is popcorn reading. Another word for popcorn reading is round robin reading.

This is something you see in language arts classes, but you also see it in history,

social studies classes, or any class really where you have a textbook chapter to read or a novel

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