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The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast

EduTip 1: Don't make them read and listen at the same time.

The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast

Jennifer Gonzalez

Education, Teaching, Instruction, Classroommanagement, Educationreform

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to EduTips, a side project of the Cult of Pedagogy podcast where I share one quick tidbit of educational research, teaching ideas, classroom management strategies, or sometimes just a quick story. This first EduTip is DON'T MAKE THEM READ AND LISTEN AT THE SAME TIME. This is a mistake I see so many teachers, speakers, and other presenters make, and it's so easy to fix! You can find full written versions of these tips at cultofpedagogy.com/edutips.

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Thanks to Reading Progress in Teams for sponsoring this episode.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to EduTips, a side project of the Cult of Pedagogy podcast, where I share one quick tidbit of educational research, teaching ideas, classroom management strategies, or sometimes just a quick story.

0:14.0

This is Jennifer Gonzalez and I am your host.

0:17.0

I spend a lot of time putting together my longer episodes, and that's why I make so few of them.

0:23.0

I thought it would be fun and useful to put these micro episodes in between, so you can just learn one useful thing that will help you become a better teacher.

0:33.0

This EduTip is supported by reading progress in Teams, a free tool by Microsoft designed to improve reading fluency.

0:41.0

Students record themselves reading aloud at school or at home, and submit it for teacher review.

0:47.0

With AI-powered estimations of student errors, easy data collection, and dashboards to track student growth, this free tool is designed to give educators more time to do what they do best, teach.

1:00.0

With reading progress, educators can do fluency checks more often to better adapt to students' needs.

1:07.0

Created for diverse classrooms, including emerging readers, non-native readers, and those with learning disabilities, reading progress is supported in over 37 languages.

1:18.0

Try reading progress on Windows, Mac, Web, iOS, or Android.

1:23.0

To learn more about reading progress, go to aka.ms-microsoftreading.

1:35.0

This first EduTip is don't make them read and listen at the same time.

1:40.0

This is a mistake I see so many teachers, speakers, and other presenters make, and it's so easy to fix.

1:48.0

Here's the problem.

1:50.0

We give our students something to read. It might be a handout, a syllabus, a brand new assignment, a PowerPoint slide, a website, you get the idea.

2:00.0

And ostensibly, we want them to read the thing. But then we start talking, and some of us talk and talk and never stop.

2:10.0

The whole time these poor kids are supposed to be reading the thing we just gave them.

2:15.0

I don't know about you, but my brain doesn't work like that. I can't read one thing with words and listen to something else with different words and actually process both.

2:26.0

And then, when the allotted time for reading is up, some of us go ballistic when A, a student shows lack of understanding of the material they were supposed to read.

2:41.0

Or B, a student seems to have not been listening to the thing we just said.

2:46.0

The truth is, we caused this problem.

2:50.0

So the next time you have something written that you want students to read, but you also have some stuff you need to say out loud, provide separate times for both.

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