EduTip 32: Don't put kids in Charlie Bucket situations.

The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast

Jennifer Gonzalez

Education, Teaching, Instruction, Classroommanagement, Educationreform

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Although most teachers understand that not all students have the same home life, sometimes we forget how big those differences can really be, and how humiliating it can be for a student to be asked to publicly share details about their lives outside of school. In this EduTip we'll talk about some situations where this comes up, and what you can do to prevent it from happening.

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0:00.0	Welcome to EduTip 32, where we'll talk about why you should think carefully before asking
0:05.5	students to share details about their lives in class. Edut Tips is a side project of the
0:11.5	Cult of Pedagogy podcast where I share one quick idea to make your teaching better. This is
0:17.0	Jennifer Gonzalez, and I am your host. Edututut2 is sponsored by Studio.
0:22.8	Studio is a planning tool which allows students to track and plan all of their classwork
0:27.9	by estimating how much time a task will take and dividing larger tasks into smaller steps.
0:34.3	This is a valuable tool to support parent conversations and help each student plan their work and pace themselves.
0:40.3	Coaching students on better organization has a direct impact on their grades as well as their long-term success.
0:47.3	Studio offers a free plan that allows students and parents to view all Google Classroom assignments
0:53.3	and allows teachers to post to Google Classroom directly from their schedule, as well as track student organization.
1:01.7	School and district plans come with added features like centralized timetables, workload management, and more LMS integrations.
1:10.1	Visit Studio.co-P pedagogy, that's
1:13.5	s t-ud-y-o.co slash pedagogy, to create your free account now and get your students planning.
1:22.6	Today's edut tip is avoid putting kids in a Charlie Bucket situation. In a scene from the 1971 movie,
1:31.3	Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, the main character, Charlie Bucket, is sitting in a classroom.
1:37.9	His teacher is giving a math lesson and begins asking students to estimate how many
1:42.5	Wonka chocolate bars they have bought in search of a golden ticket.
1:46.8	The first student says 100. The second says 150.
1:51.8	Then the teacher calls on Charlie, who quietly says two.
1:56.5	Assuming he means 200, the teacher proceeds to do the math with that number, but Charlie
2:02.3	corrects him, saying he just meant two.
2:06.0	When the teacher expresses his disbelief, Charlie explains that he doesn't really like
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