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Stories from the Classroom
by Thom Gibson
Stories of teachers that are creating meaningful and memorable experiences for their students and how you can do the same.Created and hosted by Thom Gibson; a two-time Teacher of the Year educator, podcaster, YouTuber, and lifelong learner.
Episodes
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UPDATE | What I've Been Working on & Pushing Pause on the Podcast
I realized that it's pretty difficult to schedule podcast interviews when you have a new baby in the house with a somewhat unpredictable nap schedule, and I decided I wasn't going to cut into family time. COURSES FOR TEACHERS I'VE BEEN CREATING During the times the little one napped, I decided to...
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6 Teacher Wellness Tips for a Quarantined Summer
I walk through six tips on how to ensure your summer is a time to recharge, including: strategies to wean yourself off of social media a bit what to think through when developing your evening routine to get more sleep how to start small when it comes to exercising each week where to start when it...
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3 Remote Teaching STEM Projects; TikTok, Minecraft, & eBay
I got all these ideas from other educators on social media. In this episode, I take time to reflect on these three projects. I talk specifically about: how I had students create a TikTok as their final math summative grade my rubric for the TikTok project reflections on what I would do…
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How COVID-19 Will Change Education
I wanted to chat with someone about everything I had been reading online and seeing from schools around the world, some of which are beginning to open up after 3 months of remote learning. Carl Hooker was the first person to come to mind. Carl Hooker has been in education for 20+ years and is an...
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Create Immersive Learning Experiences with Augmented Reality (without fancy equipment)
My guest today is a teacher-of-the-year recipient and educator of 20 years. Carolina Carner has been utilizing augmented reality in her classroom for several years in her middle school classroom. Additionally she's worked with Google for Edu as a product expert in Google Expeditions, AR, VR, and...
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How to Boost Engagement During Remote Learning (Without Using Zoom)
I reached out to a handful of people on Twitter who had done distance learning for at least a couple of weeks already. Student engagement is one of the biggest challenges in distance learning. While I originally just asked for their best tip, I love that thoughts and guidance on how to increase...
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A Better Way To Teach Math
My guest today is a passionate math educator who has sought to teach learners in this exploratory manner and in a way that the students feel they are capable of understanding mathematical concepts deeply. In my conversation with Kevin Moore, we explore: how one teacher helped him begin to view...
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UPDATE: New Baby, COVID-19, and Life at Home
Watch the video of this podcast - https://youtu.be/BpSlAy2nPd0 TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Life with a newborn 6:11 - Daily schedule during quarantine 10:03 - Future podcasts 12:28 - Distance learning in the country 15:38 - New content for teachers (livestreams, courses) 18:42 - My distance learning plan…
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No Planning Time, Low Test Scores, & Correcting Students | Q&A Show
In this Q&A show, we discuss: How do you support students & help them master content after they've scored low on a test? How do you find time to prep, grade, plan without using all of your free time outside of school if you don't have a prep period? How do you correct students & stimulate...
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Skype | Classroom Uses You Haven't Thought Of
Today I chat with two educators who are all about Skype in the classroom. Jeni Long & Salleé Clark (who go by the dynamic duo name of Jenallee) are two Microsoft Innovation Educators with over 36 years in education collectively. In our conversation, we discuss: how teachers are using Skype to...
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How to Keep Your Sub Days From Being a Total Wash
During my semester as a sub before becoming a full-time teacher, I had many a days of little to no sub plans. I also had a good handful of days of detailed and thorough sub plans. Days with the full set of sub plans were far better both for me and for the students and I've sought to provide subs…
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How to Celebrate Multiculturalism in Your Class...Even If All of Your Students Are White
My guest today is Roberto Germán, director of middle school and creator of the educational consulting group 'The Multicultural Classroom.' In today's episode we explore: the differences between multiculturalism vs. a multicultural classroom vs. social justice Roberto's journey from an extremely...
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Have Students Make Your Coffee...And Other Class Job Ideas
Class jobs in and of themselves have tremendous value in creating a positive classroom culture, building responsibility in students, and saving YOU time as the teacher. My classroom jobs are part of a larger classroom economy system. If you want to dive into how I do that, check out the course I...
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10 Grading Time Hacks
It's good to be doing the podcast again after some time off over the holidays! When I got back to school, I led a PD session for my colleagues on how to save time grading and thought it'd make for a valuable podcast. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Intro 3:47 - Update on the podcast 6:17 - Why grading takes so...
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Screaming at Kids, Comparing Students, and Creating a Self-Sustaining Classroom | Q&A Show
In this Q&A show, we discuss: What are the top three books that guide you in building a self-sustaining classroom culture? As a first year robotics teacher, do you compare one class with another as a way to motivate students? In Brazil, if one class is falling behind another, it's common to say...
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How Do You Teach Creativity?
A conversation on Facebook with my friend Jake led me to ponder the nature of teaching kids how to do creative work. Jake Ritter is a broadcast journalism teacher and John Mulvany is an artist and art teacher of 26 years. In this episode we chat about: what the schools of thought when it comes to...
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Should You Start Your Own Teacher Podcast?
Chris Nesi and Jeff Bradbury are two of the biggest names in educational podcasting. Chris is the creator of the House of Ed Tech podcast as well as the Education Podcast Network, which is a community of educational podcasters that includes the likes of The Cult of Pedagogy with Jennifer Gonzalez...
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Giving Students Voice Through Socratic Seminars
Join me as I sit in on Chalimar Chieza's 9th grade World Geography class as they dive into a socratic seminar. Hear students form hypotheses around the question**"why do people around the world have different skin tones?"** as well as my discussion with Chalimar on how she structures the socratic...
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Leveraging Social Media as Educators [Part 2/2]
Michael Hernandez & Don Wettrick are two educators that are actually assigning students social media homework; tweet at least three times a week, connect with an influencer on LinkedIn, discuss how the new Instagram updates will change your content strategy. They're not utilizing social media for...
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Leveraging Social Media as Educators [Part 1/2]
CJ Reynolds is a high-school teacher in West Philadelphia with an active YouTube and Instagram channel where he documents the meaningful learning experiences in his classroom with the goal to inspire, engage, and motivate new and veteran teachers to be the teacher they always wanted to be.…
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Esports in the Classroom
I spoke with several people that are on the front lines of where esports and education intersect. We discuss: What exactly are esports What types of esports scholarships and programs are available at the college level How an esports program is so much more than just playing video games Why...
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How to Use Storytelling in the Classroom
A few months ago I didn't know that storytelling competitions were a thing. Then I heard Matthew Dicks on a podcast and he shared what makes for good storytelling. I thought it was interesting but it wasn't until he told a short 5-minute story that I was convinced of his mastery of the craft and…
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'The Thom Gibson Podcast' Is Now 'Stories from the Classroom'
In this short episode, I share a little bit of why I started this podcast, why I changed the name, and the vision going forward. Hope you like the new podcast art! Connect with me: Thom Gibson www.thomgibson.com twitter.com/gibsonedu youtube.com/gibsonedu instagram.com/booksandbeefjerky...
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Mindfulness in the Classroom
In this episode: I speak with mindfulness specialist James Butler to discuss best practices surrounding how to get started with mindfulness in the classroom. I interview psychologist Dr. Tori Olds about the deeper happenings in the mind when mindfulness is being practiced. I chat with educator...
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Epic Rap Battles in the Classroom
Epic Rap Battles of History is one of my favorite YouTube channels. I knew that giving students opportunities to write songs about content was a good assessment, but I never thought of utilizing raps / slam poetry specifically. So much opportunity for students to show what they know in this...
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Collusion, Communism, and Catan...The Best Gamification of a Gov & Econ Class
I got the chance to go into Mike Franz's high school gov & econ class when they were playing YOLO, a year-long game where one week of school represents one year of life. The first week of the game the students are 18 years old, the last week of the game they are near retirement age. What will…
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How To Love Out-of-Control Students
Currently working on a couple Thom Gibson Podcast episodes that aren't quite done yet but I did want to get an episode out this month. In this, I pulled a review that I did for my #bookstagram Instagram account. It was a review of Carla Shalaby's 'Troublemakers' which is a book on what we can…
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What Makes A Great 1st Day of School?
With the start of the school year upon us, I've been thinking a lot about the first day of school. Is it the most important day? How do you balance the need for rules & procedures with getting kids stoked about being in your class? How do you ensure students have a voice and feel seen & heard on...
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My Search For Meaning
A bonus track to the podcast: Our first book club review - Man's Search For Meaning. I share the things that made me thing, that I connected to, and the mindsets I hope to also maintain.
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Stories of teachers that are creating meaningful and memorable experiences for their students and how you can do the same.Created and hosted by Thom Gibson; a two-time Teacher of the Year educator, podcaster, YouTuber, and lifelong learner.
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Stories of teachers that are creating meaningful and memorable experiences for their students and how you can do the same.Created and hosted by Thom Gibson; a two-time Teacher of the Year educator, podcaster, YouTuber, and lifelong learner.
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