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The Todd Cast - Teaching Theory into Teaching Practice
by Todd Stanley
Program for educators looking for practical strategies that can be used in the classroom immediately. Topics include authentic learning, social and emotional development, 21st century learning, underachievement, and gifted education.
Episodes
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The ToddCast - Importance of Gifted in MTSS Framework
Importance of Gifted in MTSS Framework - the MTSS framework, or multi-tiered systems of support, is meant to provide intervention for all students. Sometimes though we are only looking at the framework with scaffolds for at-risk students rather than an opportunity to grow all, including gifted....
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The ToddCast - 5 Words to Strike from Gifted Vocabulary
5 Words to Strike from Gifted Vocabulary - there are words that are commonly used in gifted vocabulary such as challenge, accelerated, and differentiation. There are others that are used all of the time that maybe shouldn't be. In this Todd Talk I discuss 5 of them you might reconsider using as...
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The ToddCast - Productive Struggle
Productive Struggle - this is when students are given a task that is a challenge to solve and through this struggle they not only learn the possible answer, but also the process. But how do we actively do this in our classrooms where students are often times afraid to make mistakes?
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The ToddCast - Gears of Genius
Gears of Genius - we use the word "genius" as an adjective to describe a person or idea, but how do we actually get someone there? What does it take to produce a genius idea? It is not just one thing. It is a combination of curiosity, creativity, challenge, and critical thinking. But how do we...
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The ToddCast - Creating Brain-Busting Bulletin Boards
Creating Brain-Busting Bulletin Boards - often times the bulletin boards in classrooms are simply white noise that students do not pay attention to. But what if you could make them part of the educational process and get students involved? Here are some ideas for doing this.
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The ToddCast - What is Critical Thinking?
What is Critical Thinking? - critical thinking is one of those terms that can mean a lot of things. In the case of skills taught in school, what does critical thinking mean? And why is it so important to teach it to our students?
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The ToddCast - Chances vs. Opportunities for Challenge
Chances vs. opportunities for challenge - when we try and challenge our students in the classroom there are two ways to do this. Planned challenge where we prepare things ahead of time, and teachable moments where we see a spark of curiosity we want to tap into. Learn how to do both of these.
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The ToddCast - Academically Challenging vs. Intellectually Stimulating
Academically Challenging vs. Intellectually Stimulating - academically challenging is how most of school is set up, where things gets progressively more and more difficult. Intellectually stimulating is where students are challenged in their thinking. Which one is used more in school and how can…
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The ToddCast - The Needs of Gifted Students
The needs of gifted students - gifted students have specific needs that are often not addressed or overlooked. Why is it important to address these needs and how can you ensure they are growing as learners?
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The ToddCast - What is Creative Thinking?
What is Creative Thinking? - we identify some students as creative thinkers. But what does this actually look like? This is the definition of an outside the box thinker. They usually have multiple possible answers and make connections others don't see.
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The ToddCast - Flexible Grouping
Flexible Grouping - when we put students into groups we must be purposeful about it. This is because in order for their needs to be met, they must be in the best environment for them to grow. But placing them properly is only half of the battle. Once they are in groups they must know how to work...
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The ToddCast - Compacting Curriculum
Compacting Curriculum - is everything we are required to teach necessary for all students? What if they already know what we are going to be teaching? Do they need to learn it again or can we streamline the learning so that students are skipping over material they already know or have learned...
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The ToddCast - Tiered Lessons
Tiered Lessons - differentiation isn't about making 30 lessons plans for 30 students. It is about determining the various levels of understanding in your classroom and making sure you meet the needs of those students. This should be deliberate and planned and that's where tiered lessons come in....
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The ToddCast - What are some good books to read about raising gifted children?
What are some good books to read about raising gifted children? - as a parent of a gifted child you are probably discovering there are some different behaviors than might be in a typical child that parent books don't discuss. Luckily there are plenty of parenting books on how to raise a...
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The ToddCast - Things Never to Say to Your Gifted Child
5 Things Never to Say to Your Gifted Child - sometimes as parents we say things to our children that we wish we hadn't. Things such as "I wish you were more like..." or "why were you ever born". We can do this with our gifted children as well and the expectations we hold for their gifts. Here are…
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The ToddCast - 5 Ways to Work With Your Gifted Child's Teacher
5 Ways to Work With Your Gifted Child's Teacher - for parents of gifted children, teachers should have the same goal about a child which is ensure he or she is growing as a learner. This would seemingly put both of them on the same page but there are times parents and teachers find themselves at...
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The ToddCast - 5 Things Every Administrator Should Know
5 things every administrator should know about gifted - like a lot of people in education, many administrators have not had a lot of training in working with gifted students so have some preconceived notions about them. After all, we don't know what we don't know. This Todd Talk discusses 5…
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The ToddCast - Metacognition (EFS)
Metacognition (Executive Functioning Skills) - metacognition is an awareness of your own thoughts. But how do you teach students to be aware of this? You provide them structure to be able to think about their thinking. This is anything from gaining a greater awareness of oneself by figuring out…
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The ToddCast - Perseverance (EFS)
Perseverance/Grit (Executive Functioning Skills) - perseverance is the ability to follow through or to push through when faced with obstacles. This is something we would like all of our students to have when coming to the classroom, but how deliberate are we about teaching such skills. This...
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The ToddCast - Planning (EFS)
Planning (Executive Functioning Skills) - We always expect students to have a plan, but do we always show them how to do it? What if we were more deliberate about teaching students how you plan out a long term project, or a study schedule for an upcoming test, or even their workload for the…
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The ToddCast - Organization (EFS)
Organization (Executive Functioning Skills) - there are many aspects to organization for a student at school. There is their schoolwork, their materials, their personal belongings, their time, and their thoughts. We explore several strategies for how a students might go about organizing these...
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The ToddCast - Task Initiation (EFS)
Task initiation (Executive Functioning Skills) - you can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink. Similarly, you can give a student a task, but it doesn't mean they are going to get started on it. How do we teach kids to avoid procrastination and to get started on their work in a…
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The ToddCast - Time Management (EFS)
Time Management (Executive Functioning Skills) - you can plan and organize yourself all you want, but if you are unable to manage the time you are allotted, nothing is going to get done. Teachers either micromanage a student's time so much that the students do not learn to do this for themselves,...
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The ToddCast - Focus (EFS)
Focus (Executive Functioning Skills) - none of the other executive functioning skills work effectively if a student is not able to focus. Developing this skill through setting the environment, having teacher clarity, and being aware of mindfulness are just some of the strategies shared in order…
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The ToddCast - Self-Control (EFS)
Self Control/Regulation (Executive Functioning Skills) - are you unable to keep your emotions in check? Can you not resist the urge to do something when it tempts you? Do you find yourself blurting out answers the second they pop into your head? If the answer is yes to any of these you might have…
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The ToddCast - Flexibility (EFS)
Flexibility (Executive Functioning Skills) - all of the other executive functioning skills do not really work if you are not flexible with your thinking. Your plans change, the time management is wrecked by an assembly, and trying to keep your focus might be affected by circumstances beyond your...
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The ToddCast - Working Memory (EFS)
Overview of Executive Functioning Skills - Executive functioning skills are the things that successful people do on a daily basis which leads to their achievement. It includes skills such as task initiation, planning, attention, and time management. These are skills we expect many of our students...
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The ToddCast - Overview of Executive Functioning Skills
Overview of Executive Functioning Skills - Executive functioning skills are the things that successful people do on a daily basis which leads to their achievement. It includes skills such as task initiation, planning, attention, and time management. These are skills we expect many of our students...
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The ToddCast - Trends (Depth and Complexity icon)
Trends (Depth and Complexity icon) - trends are patterns that take place over a period of time. This period of time could be a month, could be a year, could be several years. By observing the patterns in this trend, we can try and predict where the trend will go next. By doing this you can take...
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The ToddCast - Multiple Perspectives (Depth and Complexity icon)
Multiple Perspectives (Depth and Complexity icon) - It is often said that there are two sides to every story. In reality, there are as many sides to the story as there were people present. Yet the story is usually only told from one of these perspectives. If we are going to truly understand...
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The ToddCast - Unanswered Questions (Depth and Complexity icon)
Unanswered Questions (Depth and Complexity icon) - Often in school, students are presented with questions that they are expected to find a correct answer to. This could be a math problem, how to spell a word, the name of a figure, event, or date in history, or how sounds waves work. In life...
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The ToddCast - Ethics (Depth and Complexity icon)
Ethics (Depth and Complexity icon) - ethics are the gray areas we encounter when looking at a situation. For example, it is wrong to shout in the classroom. In fact, it is a rule. But what if someone injured themselves and you needed to yell for help? Wouldn't that make you action justified? A...
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The ToddCast - Rules (Depth and Complexity)
Rules (Depth and Complexity icon) - rules are fairly simple aren't they? You either can do something or you can't. And if you break a rule, there are consequences or punishments that might follow. But it is not that simple. There are different rules that apply to different situations differently....
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The ToddCast - Big Idea (Depth and Complexity icon)
Big Idea (Depth and Complexity icon) - what's the big idea? We often ask this question. The big idea is what you are supposed to get or be learning from something. These are sometimes called essential questions or learning objectives, but ultimately the big idea is what it all boils down to....
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The ToddCast - Patterns (Depth and Complexity)
Patterns (Depth and Complexity icons) - in this video we will discuss how students can look for patterns in academics, in sports, and in their own lives in order to try and predict the most probable outcome. Sometimes these patterns can be obvious and easy to figure out, sometimes you need to…
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The ToddCast - Details (Depth and Complexity)
Details - the devil is in the details and this couldn't be more true. Details are what allow people to fully understand something and without them, something may get lost. This Depth and Complexity icon is all about getting students to explain themselves thoroughly so that whatever they are…
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The ToddCast - Over Time (Depth and Complexity)
Over Time - 1 of the 11 icons in the Depth and Complexity thinking framework, this is a complexity icon that takes a look at how things change (and sometimes do not) change over a given period of time. This might be an hour, it could be years, it could be centuries. Because it is such a complex...
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The ToddCast - Language of the Discipline (Depth and Complexity)
Language of the Discipline - 1 of the 11 icons in the Depth and Complexity thinking framework, Language of the Discipline means helping students to understand the context of the language being used. What might mean one thing in one discipline might change in another. For example, if I use the…
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The ToddCast - Depth and Complexity
Introduction to Depth and Complexity Framework - this is a learning platform developed at the California Department of Education that centers around 11 icons designed to push the thinking of students to the next level. The icons are broken down into 8 focusing on depth; patterns, trends, details,...
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The ToddCast - Student Choice
Student Choice - One way you can certainly challenge students in the classroom is to provide them with choices. This could be a choice in topics learned, choice in how this is learned, choice with who you learn it with, and choice in how you are going to determine mastery. By providing students...
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The ToddCast - STEM Challenges
STEM Challenges - STEM is more than just putting science, technology, engineering, and math together, it is about using the engineering design process which is 1) Ask, 2) Imagine, 3) Plan, 4) Create, and 5) Improve. A good way to learn this process is to have students work on STEM design...
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The ToddCast - Projects vs. Project-Based Learning
Projects vs. Project-Based Learning - sometimes we use these two terms interchangeably in education when there really is a large difference between them. This PD tutorial walks you through what the major difference are and what these look like in your classroom.
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The ToddCast - Pre-Assessment
Pre-Assessment - this an excellent method for determining what a student does and does not know. Often times though, we use this information to close gaps and provide intervention, but how often do teachers use it to figure out ways to challenge students, especially our gifted ones? This Todd…
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The ToddCast - Mentors/Mentorships
Mentors/Mentorships - Even though teachers are expected to be the experts in their subject area, often times there are things that we don't know. This is especially true with gifted students who might come with a lot of prior understanding and need to be challenged at a level the teacher cannot...
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The ToddCast - Differentiated Centers
Differentiated Centers - Learning centers are various stations set up around the classroom that gives students specific tasks or skills to work on independently. In a classroom with gifted students however, you must differentiate these centers so that there are different levels to the same…
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The ToddCast - Independent Projects
Setting Up Independent Projects - when you have a student who already knows the material you are going to be covering, why make them sit through something they have already learned? Isn't there something they could be doing to go deeper into the learning and learn important skills as well? That…
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The ToddCast - Enrichment Clubs
Enrichment Clubs - One way to enrich your students is simply by providing a place for them to enrich themselves. This can be accomplished with enrichment clubs. These can be held before or after school, or worked into the school day. It is important that you as the coordinator of this club do…
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The ToddCast - Bonus Opportunities
Bonus Opportunities - these are just as the name implies; opportunities for students to stretch their thinking about something they are learning. This is not extra credit or bonus points, it is about expanding the learning of the student. It is important that these are opportunities where…
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The ToddCast - Choice Boards
Choice Boards - When trying to enrich our students, one way to do this is to provide student choice. But how do you guide this choice into the lesson you are teaching? You can provide choice boards which are menus that students can choose various activities from. These choice boards can be...
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The ToddCast - Board Games that Enrich
Board Games that Enrich - You don't always have to be directly enriching students. Having resources in your room that enrich them without them even knowing is one way to provide opportunities for learning. An example would be having board games students have access to either during indoor recess,...
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Program for educators looking for practical strategies that can be used in the classroom immediately. Topics include authentic learning, social and emotional development, 21st century learning, underachievement, and gifted education.
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Todd Stanley
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