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Quarantine Teaching

by Dan

Dan and Mark are high school teachers in Portland, Oregon who have taught throughout the pandemic. We're here to talk about what it's like teaching throughout this pandemic and, well, how we're supposed to move from the classroom to teaching online. We cover best technologies we've found, strategies for making a community in a classroom and Dan's most recent facial hair. New episodes every two weeks or whenever we feel like hearing ourselves talk.

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Episodes

  1. Episode 12: Teacher Mental Health

    Take it from two online teachers who have zero qualifications to counsel any other teacher about mental health: here are our thoughts about how we maintain our mental health while teaching online during a pandemic.

  2. Episode 11: Post-Pandemic Bold Predictions

    Mark and Dan each give 3 predictions for what changes will affect teaching after the Pandemic ends and teachers return to the classroom.

  3. Episode 10: How Quarantine Teaching has been for Administrators with Special Guest

    Mark and Dan welcome special guest Scott Powers, vice principal for academics and student life (specifically, students with last name o-z). Scott answers hard-hitting questions and gives his perspective on the biggest opportunities and challenges of trying to guide a school during a pandemic.

  4. Episode 9: ZOOM it right! 3 dos and a few don't about ZOOM teaching

    Mark and Dan give their 3 ZOOM dos and a few don'ts for teaching using ZOOM. Dan apologies for his mic not sounding as crisp as it should--ZOOM updated to 5.0 and reset his mic to the silly on-board mic instead of his good mic. Now THAT should be Don't #1: Don't forget to make sure the mic is right.

  5. Episode 8: We survived online summer school--here's how

    Mark and Dan talk about surviving developing, implementing, executing, and concluding online summer school. Mark taught a 5 week, 4 hour per day class while Dan taught two classes for two weeks that were two hours each. Other topics covered: What worked and what failed miserably. What…

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  6. Episode 7: Andragogy: How do teachers (and adults) learn?

    Mark and Dan talk about summer professional development for teachers. How do we learn best as adults?

  7. Episode 6: Online Likeability

    How do teachers create relationships with so that students “like” the class and the teacher?

  8. Episode 5: Teacher Morale: rawrrrrr!!!

    Mark and Dan talk about teacher morale. Specifically they focus on an article from Edweek about teacher morale as referenced in the podcast.

  9. Episode 4: Education apps we use

    In today’s episode we talk about after that we use at work well. Included in those apps or Quizlet, Trello, edPuzzle, and more.

  10. Episode 3: Assessment

    Dan and Mark offer musings about what assessment looks like in a digital space.

  11. Episode 2: synchronous or asynchronous?

    Which is better for teachers and students: synchronous or asynchronous education?

  12. Episode 1: Top 3 things for teaching digitally in quarantine

    Dan and Mark, incomplete experts, are two weeks in to teaching completely online after careers in the classroom. In this episode they talk about the top 3 things they need to get grounded in engaging with students digitally. Topics covered: lighting, physical space, google hockey pucks and more.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Dan and Mark are high school teachers in Portland, Oregon who have taught throughout the pandemic. We're here to talk about what it's like teaching throughout this pandemic and, well, how we're supposed to move from the classroom to teaching online. We cover best technologies we've found, strategies for making a community in a classroom and Dan's most recent facial hair. New episodes every two weeks or whenever we feel like hearing ourselves talk.

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Dan and Mark are high school teachers in Portland, Oregon who have taught throughout the pandemic. We're here to talk about what it's like teaching throughout this pandemic and, well, how we're supposed to move from the classroom to teaching online. We cover best technologies we've found,...

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