29: Four Things I've Learned About Teaching from CrossFit
The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast
Jennifer Gonzalez
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
What can CrossFit, a fitness movement that is quickly growing in popularity, teach us about learning and motivation? As a new and very low-level student of CrossFit, I'm noticing some principles we can take from their approach and apply to our own teaching to get students motivated and help them learn better.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to episode 29 of the Cult of Pedagogy podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | In this episode, I'm going to share with you four things I've learned about teaching from |
| 0:09.4 | doing CrossFit. |
| 0:19.4 | If you are not a person who's naturally interested in fitness or gyms or talking about workouts, |
| 0:29.1 | you may not have even pressed play on this episode, but if you're here, I will just ask |
| 0:33.7 | you to stick with me on this for a couple of minutes because I am definitely making |
| 0:37.8 | strong connections to education and teaching. |
| 0:40.6 | So thank you, thank you for bearing with me because this is something I've been thinking |
| 0:44.1 | about doing a podcast on for a while. |
| 0:46.9 | And I thought, I don't know if everybody who listens to me is going to be that interested |
| 0:51.3 | in, I don't know, me talking about exercise and certainly not this specific type called |
| 0:57.3 | CrossFit, but just I'm going to explain some stuff and I'm going to mostly be talking |
| 1:01.6 | about how we can use this stuff for the classroom. |
| 1:04.8 | So before I get started, two things. |
| 1:07.4 | Number one, if you are a regular listener and you've been enjoying the show and you haven't |
| 1:11.8 | yet left a review on iTunes, I'm just going to ask that you go on over to iTunes and just |
| 1:17.5 | leave me a quick review. |
| 1:21.0 | The number of reviews that a podcast gets, it helps it to get more visibility, basically. |
| 1:26.6 | iTunes shows it to more people, the more positive reviews it gets. |
| 1:30.9 | So if you have a few minutes, I would really, really appreciate you doing that. |
| 1:35.8 | The way that you can get there, if you're listening to this in some other format, would |
| 1:39.1 | be to just go to cultofpedagogy.com slash pod and there is a button underneath my picture |
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