EP233 Five ways to use playfulness in your lessons to prevent burnout (with Laura Gellin)
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
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🗓️ 5 September 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
If you and your students are already losing motivation this year, here's how to inject focused energy, student agency, and joy back into your classroom.
Learn how to bring the benefits of play into your classroom and why students need playfulness now more than ever, including at the middle and high school level.
Using this brain-based, research-backed approach explained by teacher Laura Gellin, you'll be able to leverage aspects of play to design learning experiences that will engage, empower, and enliven your students.
You can read or share Laura's guest post on Truth for Teachers about this topic here: https://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/truth-for-teachers-podcast/5-ways-to-prevent-burnout-by-bringing-more-playfulness-to-your-classroom-even-if-you-teach-middle-or-high-school
Or, join our podcast Facebook group here to connect with other teachers and discuss the Truth for Teachers' podcast episodes.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 233 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host Angela Watson |
| 0:08.0 | and I'm here to speak life, encouragement and truth into the minds and hearts of educators |
| 0:13.7 | and get you energized for the weekend. Today we're talking about how to prevent burnout |
| 0:18.7 | by incorporating more play into your lesson, even if you teach at the secondary level. |
| 0:24.6 | Visit truthforteachers.com to get an easy-to-read, easy-to-share blog post version of the |
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