EduTip 2: Don't yell at another teacher's class.

The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast

Jennifer Gonzalez

Education, Teaching, Instruction, Classroommanagement, Educationreform

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

When you come in and rescue another teacher from a misbehaving class, you think you're being helpful, when really, you're just disempowering them. Try another approach! You can find full written versions of these tips at cultofpedagogy.com/edutips.

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0:00.0	Welcome to EduTips, a side project of the Cult of Pedagogy podcast where I share one quick
0:05.4	tidbit of educational research, teaching ideas, classroom management strategies, or sometimes
0:11.1	just a quick story. This is Jennifer Gonzalez and I am your host. This EduTip is supported by
0:17.3	reading progress in Teams, a free tool by Microsoft designed to improve reading fluency.
0:23.6	Students record themselves reading aloud at school or at home and submit it for teacher review.
0:28.9	With AI-powered estimations of student errors, easy data collection, and dashboards to track student
0:35.8	growth, this free tool is designed to give educators more time to do what they do best, teach.
0:42.5	With reading progress, educators can do fluency checks more often to better adapt to students'
0:48.0	needs. Created for diverse classrooms including emerging readers, non-native readers,
0:53.7	and those with learning disabilities, reading progress is supported in over 37 languages.
0:59.9	Try reading progress on Windows, Mac, Web, iOS, or Android. To learn more about reading progress,
1:06.9	go to aka.ms-microsoftreading. That's aka.ms-microsoftreading. Today's EduTip is don't yell at
1:18.1	another teacher's class. I'm going to start this one off with a story. In my first year of
1:24.0	teaching at a middle school, my team leader was a guy we will call George. George had been
1:29.5	teaching for at least 20 years by the time I started. He was incredibly charismatic, high energy,
1:36.4	and intimidating. The kids worshipped him in a way that said, you're kind of mean, but it's
1:43.2	awesome when you like us. For the most part, I liked working with him, even though we definitely
1:48.7	had a different style of dealing with students. My style was not nearly as scary, and that met my
1:55.6	students drove me crazy a lot more often. I did not run what you would call a tight ship,
2:01.5	but I also wouldn't say my classes were out of control. They just talked a lot, and I hadn't
2:06.4	quite figured out how to manage that. One thing George did that I'm pretty sure he thought was supportive
2:13.4	and helpful, but actually was not, is that he would occasionally yell at my students collectively,
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