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This podcast is for anyone who is seeking ways to design learning that promotes learner independence. It began as a passion project to help teachers during the pandemic and has transformed how I look at learning within my practice. Each episode is 15 to 30 minutes long with thoughtful ideas and some tips to apply back to your practice. The episodes are largely based on the IB Primary Years Programme, but good teaching is for everyone. Even if you are teaching in a different type of program or government school, you can easily adapt the ideas to your learning context. It just requires a bit of creativity and open-mindedness. Happy Listening! For more ideas, visit lugerlach.com.
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Send us Fan Mail Hey friends, welcome back to another episode of Confessions of a PYP Teacher. I'm Lu Gerlach with thinkchat. This is Confession 169, where we look at John Dewey's Experience and Education and dig into chapter two: The Need of a Theory of Experience. This is the third episode in this book club series, as I'm trying to unpack the ideas of John Dewey and think about the implications for today's educational landscape. This episode will explore the difference between experie...
Send us Fan Mail Welcome back my friends to Confessions of a PYP Teacher. This is Lu Gerlach with thinkchat. Today, I'm focusing on chapter one of Experience and Education by John Dewey, which is the second episode in the series. This chapter focuses on traditional versus progressive education. Just a reminder: this text was originally written in 1938. Ninety years ago, my friends. It's really interesting. As I was reading through this chapter, I found lots of tidbits that made me pau...
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to confession number 167. My name is Lu Gerlach from thinkchat. This episode is starting a new book club series, because you know I love a good book club. This summer, while traveling, I've been diving deep into podcasts and books that have genuinely shifted how I see the world. I've found myself captivated by figures like Marcus Aurelius, who, despite being one of history's most powerful rulers, spent his life wrestling with the most human of questions: What ...
Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Confessions of a PYP Teacher and the fifteenth episode in our well-being series. As we come to the end of this series, we have spent time sitting with some heavy, but very real parts of learning and teaching. We have explored worry, fear, panic, anxiety, stress, burnout, boreout, and trauma. We have looked closely at what they can look like in our classrooms, and how easily they can be missed, misunderstood, or mislabeled. If we are honest, there may have bee...
Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Confessions of a PYP Teacher and the fourteenth episode in our well-being series. I’ve been waiting to talk about our next topic for awhile, because it is quite heavy. But I would be remiss to skip it, because it makes me feel uncomfortable. If you haven’t guessed, it is trauma informed teaching. We have already gone in deep on all of the areas that make us feel uncertain. Why not explore trauma too? I know this is deep, but it'...
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