EP248 Uncovering the hidden clutter in your curriculum (with Sally Berquist)
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Sally Berquist, a teaching veteran with 24 years of experience and writing instruction specialist, is going to share some strategies to help you identify clutter in your curriculum and simplify your lesson design to account for realistic cognitive load and time management.
As Sally shares, folks who write curriculum may be experts in content, but YOU are the expert on delivering that curriculum and implementing it in a way that works for your students.
If you've been overwhelmed by the amount of stuff you're supposed to teach, I think you'll find this conversation validating and also helpful in learning to view your curriculum through a lens of what's developmentally appropriate and relevant for your students.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 248 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm your host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into |
| 0:11.6 | the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:15.7 | Today, I'm talking with Sally Berquist about how to uncover the hidden clutter in your |
| 0:20.2 | curriculum in order to simplify lesson design. |
| 0:23.9 | Visit truth for teachers.com to get an easy-to-read, easy-to-share version of this podcast |
| 0:28.8 | episode. |
| 0:32.5 | Competing priorities can make it difficult to find time for SEO. |
| 0:36.6 | Word workouts available at wordworkouts.org is a free pre-K to 12 lesson library that helps |
| 0:42.7 | students reflect on the most common emotions they feel every day. |
| 0:46.8 | Each lesson combines a physical movement video like a next stretch with a set of reflection |
| 0:51.3 | prompts that are all related to a single emotion and can be done in as little as 10 minutes. |
| 0:57.2 | Country teachers use word workouts for their brain breaks and secondary teachers use them |
| 1:01.4 | often during advisory periods to help students reflect and build respect and empathy. |
| 1:06.6 | To start using this 100% free resource with your students, visit wordworkouts.org. |
| 1:12.5 | That's W-O-R-D-W-O-R-K-O-U-T-S dot org. |
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