EP151 What's considered "enough" lesson support to help kids be successful? (Ericka's coaching call)
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
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🗓️ 3 February 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The questions of What is enough reteaching? Am I doing enough in my lessons? Are my interventions sufficient? tend to weigh perpetually on teachers. I think it's really hard to find the answers. Standards-based grading sometimes requires you to keep re-teaching and supporting kids until they achieve mastery. And of course, no one wants to be accused of giving up on kids.
In today's episode, you can listen in on a coaching call I did with a teacher named Ericka about this topic. She teaches 6th-8th grade science, but the conversation we have will feel familiar to all teachers.
The pressure to offer "more" is endless, and we have limited time and resources. And, kids aren't robots who can be programmed to master grade level standards in a pre-defined period. They're not going to all master the same content at the same time, no matter how awesome our lessons are. Sometimes what kids need most from us is not more engaging activities or endless re-teaching. Sometimes what they need has nothing to do with academics at all.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 151 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host |
| 0:06.4 | Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the minds |
| 0:11.8 | and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:15.0 | Today you're going to hear a coaching call with a teacher where we explore this topic of what is considered enough lesson support and re-teaching to help kids be successful. |
| 0:26.8 | Visit truth for teachers.com to ask a question or to share your thoughts in the comments. |
| 0:32.4 | This episode is brought to you in part by Brains On. If you've |
| 0:36.0 | ever listened to podcasts with your students then you know it's a great way to |
| 0:39.7 | engage their minds and spark their imagination without relying on screens. |
| 0:44.0 | And one great podcast to start with is a kids show called Brains On. |
| 0:48.0 | It explores real science questions from kids. |
| 0:50.0 | So they learn about things like how dogs have such a great sense of smell, what |
| 0:55.1 | waters made of, how human voices make sound. Brainson has over 100 episodes, and it's previously |
| 1:01.0 | won a webby for Best Kids and Family Podcast. |
| 1:04.0 | You can listen for free to Brainson, |
| 1:06.0 | as well as a kids history podcast called Forever ago. |
| 1:09.0 | They're both at Brainson.org |
| 1:12.0 | or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:15.6 | So today we're trying to tackle this question of what is enough? |
| 1:20.3 | Am I doing enough, I think is a question that is perpetually weighing on teachers. |
| 1:25.0 | And it's really a difficult question to answer. |
| 1:28.0 | And I think it's hard to find advice on because no one wants to be accused of giving teachers permission to do less than what |
| 1:36.0 | kids need. And no one wants to imply to teachers that they should be giving up on kids. |
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