S2 Ep20: What We Want All Non-Teachers to Know!
Teachers Off Duty
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🗓️ 15 May 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
To all the parents, politicians, friends, and anyone else who's never been a teacher, or who hasn't been in a classroom for years, this episode is for you. These are the things we wish you would keep in mind before passing judgment, criticizing, or offering your opinion on how we should run our classrooms! Thanks for listening to our TED Talk.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi guys, welcome to Teacher's Off-Duty. If you haven't too then with us before, my name |
| 0:21.1 | is Rebecca Rogers. I'm our Rogers World on all social media platforms. I'm Lauren |
| 0:25.4 | Wolley and Mrs. Wolley in fifth on all social media. And I am Bri Richardson, honest |
| 0:29.7 | teacher vibes on all social media. Before we get started we really want to talk |
| 0:33.0 | about bottle learning which is our sponsor for this episode. Lauren go ahead and |
| 0:36.7 | take it away. Bottle learning is an amazing, gamified math platform that you can |
| 0:41.8 | use with your students or your own children at home. It is completely 100% free and |
| 0:48.6 | we love free. So bottle learning is amazing because it can be used in a variety of |
| 0:53.2 | different ways. So how it works is your student or child will create their own |
| 0:56.8 | bottle character. What subject? Math. Math. Okay. I don't know if you said the subject. |
| 1:02.6 | I'm sorry. Eventually hopefully they'll be able to do it. Yeah, they're kind of social studies. |
| 1:07.7 | But now. So they'll create their bottle character and then they will complete a |
| 1:12.9 | variety of math tasks where they can learn or what learn but also earn knowledge |
| 1:17.6 | points that they can then use to play various games that also require some math |
| 1:22.5 | skill. So they can use their knowledge of math curriculum and also be using it as |
| 1:28.2 | kind of like an enrichment tool or an intervention tool as well. It's also |
| 1:32.4 | easily accessible with Google Classroom and you can attach parent emails so that |
| 1:37.0 | they can see their students progress as well. So make sure that you guys head up |
| 1:41.8 | bottle learning.com or go on to the app store on your phone and download the app. |
| 1:46.0 | We have been playing it and it's a dicting even for adults. And I don't even like math |
| 1:50.9 | so you know if I'm playing it is fine. Yeah, I mean I I brag about it all the |
| 1:55.0 | time but I got I got where she said it plays me. No, I need to get some new |
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