EP171 Teach Like Yourself: Why YOU are the person your students need most (with Dr. Gravity Goldberg)
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
What if being your best in the classroom didn't mean changing yourself or "fixing" things that are wrong with you?
What if you didn't need gimmicks to hook students into your lessons, and the key to engagement was more about being interested rather than interesting?
Join educational consultant and author Dr. Gravity Goldberg as she shares what it means to "teach like yourself." We'll explore how to go from predicting failure to building on success, and tap into your personal power in the classroom.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 171 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your |
| 0:06.7 | host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the |
| 0:12.3 | minds and hearts of educators and get you |
| 0:14.4 | energized for the week ahead. Today I'm talking with Dr. Gravity Goldberg on |
| 0:19.6 | how you can teach like yourself. Visit truth for teachers.com to get the transcript or find |
| 0:26.3 | our new truth for teachers podcast community on Facebook. You can share your thoughts on |
| 0:30.6 | the show there and reflect with other listeners in our private group. |
| 0:34.0 | A big thanks to Advancement Courses for sponsoring today's show. |
| 0:38.0 | Advancement Courses offers over 200 online PD courses in 19 different subject areas for graduate credit and |
| 0:45.2 | CEUs for K-12 teachers. |
| 0:47.9 | And right now, they're donating 10% of every purchase to fund donors choose projects. You can submit your |
| 0:54.4 | donors choose project to them for a chance to get funded until September 27th. |
| 0:59.2 | To learn more, visit AdvancementCses.com. My guest today was introduced to me by a podcast listener who thought that there was a lot of similarity |
| 1:10.8 | between Dr. Gravity Goldberg's work and my own. So I looked her up and I am so |
| 1:16.3 | grateful for that introduction because she is my people. So many of the messages that I'm |
| 1:22.4 | passionate about pushing out into the educational world |
| 1:25.0 | are the same things that gravity is saying too. |
| 1:28.0 | If you are not familiar with her work, gravity is an educational consultant and an author. |
| 1:33.2 | Her work ranges from demonstrating lessons |
| 1:35.8 | and leading workshops to developing curriculum |
| 1:38.1 | and customizing professional development programs. |
| 1:41.2 | She was a staff developer at Teachers College Reading and |
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