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Road to Better Teaching
Author: Joel Amidon and Ann Monroe
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The Road to Better Teaching is about sharing the stories of educators as they get better at teaching. The focus of each discussion will be on an artifact of their learning, and discussing why this moment of development is important to their improvement, and the improvement of the field. This process parallels the portfolio development practice that is in use at the University of Mississippi's School of Education.
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Traveling the road to better teaching with Kelsey Dodson, Graduate Student in the University of Mississippi Principal Corps, as we discuss her experience taking on the role of an educational leader, given her experience as a teacher and a counselor. Links from the episodeMississippi Principal Corps
Traveling the road to better teaching with Dr. Joseph Sweeney, Associate Clinical Professor and Director of the Mississippi Teacher Corps at the University of Mississippi School of Education, as we discuss his experience teaching conversational English in Japan to students aged 3 to 75.
Links from the episode
Mississippi Teacher Corps
Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Online Program
Wikipedia article on the Letter People, and more information.
A link to the Tenjin Festival.
A good entry-level article on restorative practices.
Rosenberg, M. B., & Chopra, D. (2015). Nonviolent communication: A language of life: Life-changing tools for healthy relationships. PuddleDancer Press.
Hart, S., & Hodson, V. K. (2004). The compassionate classroom: Relationship based teaching and learning. PuddleDancer Press.
Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures
Cultivating Mathematical Hearts: Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching in Elementary Classrooms By: Maria del Rosario Zavala, Julia Maria Aguirre
Love and Logic
Amidon Planet Podcast E032: Not Light, But Fire with Shimikqua Ellis
Designing Groupwork: Strategies for the Heterogeneous Classroom
Traveling the road to better teaching with Lauren Biando, elementary education M.Ed graduate student at the University of Mississippi School of Education, as we discuss an experience from her teaching 1st grade.
Links in the episode
Amidon Planet Podcast E043: Joyful Learning with Dr. Alice Udvari-Solner
Teaching Vocabulary: 50 Creative Strategies, Grades K-12 by Gail E. Tompkins (Editor), Cathy L. Blanchfield (Editor)
Duolingo - Language Learning
For more on portfolio development (for documenting moments of professional growth) at the University of Mississippi School of Education, check out Portfolio School.
The Road to Better Teaching is an Amidon Planet production.
Have an event or opportunity to share with Dr. Joel Amidon? Fill out the Request a Call form at Amidon Planet.
Traveling the road to better teaching with Madelyne Pruitt, elementary education teacher candidate at the University of Mississippi School of Education, as we discuss her experience teaching a 1st grade science lesson.
For more on portfolio development (for documenting moments of professional growth) at the University of Mississippi School of Education, check out Portfolio School.
Reinhart, S. C. (2000). Never say anything a kid can say!. Mathematics teaching in the middle school, 5(8), 478-483.
The Road to Better Teaching is an Amidon Planet production.
Have an event or opportunity to share with Dr. Joel Amidon? Fill out the Request a Call form at Amidon Planet.
Traveling the road to better teaching with Kelsey Vosters, Mathematics Teacher at Middleton High School in Middleton, Wi, as we discuss her experience in a book study facilitated by the Wisconsin Mathematics Council.
The Road to Better Teaching is an Amidon Planet production.
For more on portfolio development at the University of Mississippi School of Education, check out Portfolio School.
Links from the episode
Flippity
Wisconsin Mathematics Council
Building Thinking ClassroomsSpecial Guest: Kelsey Vosters.
Traveling the road to better teaching with Margaret Slaton as we discuss the day when she unexpectedly took over class as a student teacher.
The Road to Better Teaching is an Amidon Planet production.
For more on portfolio development at the University of Mississippi School of Education, check out Portfolio School.
Links from the Episode
THE First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher by Wong and Wong
Success from the Start: Your First Years Teaching Secondary Mathematics by Wieman and Arbaugh
Success from the Start: Your First Years Teaching Elementary Mathematics by Ernst and Ryan
Teaching Problems and the Problems of Teaching by Lampert
Teach Like a Champion 3.0: 63 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College by Lemov
The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours by Marian Wright Edelman
Teachers Off Duty podcast
Gerry BrooksSpecial Guest: Margaret Slaton.
Traveling the road to better teaching with Dr. Ellen Shelton, Director of Pre-College Programs for the Division of Outreach and Continuing Education, Lecturer in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric, and Interim Writing Center Director- Oxford Campus, as we discuss how a shoulder tap from a mentor-teacher led her down a path of developing writers across a variety of educational contexts.
Links from the episode
UM Writing Project
UM Department of Writing and Rhetoric
UM Writing Center
UM Division of Outreach and Continuing Education
In the Middle: A Lifetime of Learning About Writing, Reading, and Adolescents by Nancie Atwell
The Road to Better Teaching is an Amidon Planet production.
For more on portfolio development at the University of Mississippi School of Education, check out Portfolio School.Special Guest: Ellen Shelton.
Traveling the road to better teaching with Dr. Morris Stocks as we discuss his 31 years at the University of Mississippi and even more as a teacher of accountancy. Dr. Stocks is the 1998 recipient of the University of Mississippi's most prized teaching honor, the Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teacher Award.
The Road to Better Teaching is an Amidon Planet production.
For more on portfolio development at the University of Mississippi School of Education, check out Portfolio School.
Links from the episode
Elise M. Hood Outstanding Teacher Award
The Courage to Teach by Parker Palmer
Good to Great by Jim Collins
Invitations: Changing as Teachers and Learners K-12 by Regie Routman
Music by Slip.stream - "Farmers Market" - https://slip.stream/tracks/e71db9fe-d06e-433b-87f2-3aff5d772a2aSpecial Guest: Morris Stocks.
Traveling the road to better teaching with Dr. Alina Harges as we discuss an interaction with a student, that led to a major perspective shift in her teaching and her responsibility for the social and emotional well-being of students in her classroom.
The Road to Better Teaching is an Amidon Planet production.
For more on portfolio development at the University of Mississippi School of Education, check out Portfolio School.
Links from the episode
The Need to Belong: Rediscovering Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs by: Norman Kunc
Shame: The Power of Caring by Gershen Kaufman
Music by Slip.stream - "Farmers Market" - https://slip.stream/tracks/e71db9fe-d06e-433b-87f2-3aff5d772a2aSpecial Guest: Alina Harges.
Traveling the road to better teaching with Savannah Armistead as we discuss her moment of professional growth in creating a classroom management plan, while considering the needs of children that have experienced trauma.
The Road to Better Teaching is an Amidon Planet production.
For more on portfolio development at the University of Mississippi School of Education, check out Portfolio School.
Links from the episode.
Mental Health First Aid
For questions on Mental Health First Aid, please email [mentalhealth@olemiss.edu](mentalhealth@olemiss.edu).
Conscious Discipline by Becky Bailey
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook -- What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us about Loss, Love, and Healing by Bruce Perry and Maia Szalavitz
Music by Slip.stream - "Farmers Market" - https://slip.stream/tracks/e71db9fe-d06e-433b-87f2-3aff5d772a2aSpecial Guest: Savannah Armistead.
Traveling the road to better teaching as co-hosts, Ann Monroe and Joel Amidon, discuss lessons learned during one season of sharing stories of teacher development.
Links from the Episode
Amidon Planet Podcast: E005 Mind Your Moments with Gary Williams
The Road to Better Teaching is an Amidon Planet production.
For more on portfolio development at the University of Mississippi School of Education, check out Portfolio School.
Music by Slip.stream - "Farmers Market" - https://slip.stream/tracks/e71db9fe-d06e-433b-87f2-3aff5d772a2a
Traveling the road to better teaching with Abby Timms as we discuss research she did for a class that helped her better understand her role as an early childhood teacher.
Links from the episode
Video Games and Literacy with Constance Steinkuhler
National Association for the Education of Young Children website
Southern Early Childhood Association
Cooperative Children’s Book Center
Teacher's Journey: Mile Markers on the Road to Better Teaching is sponsored by the University of Mississippi School of Education and is an Amidon Planet production.
For more on portfolio development at the University of Mississippi School of Education, check out Portfolio School.
Music by Slip.stream - "Farmers Market" - https://slip.stream/tracks/e71db9fe-d06e-433b-87f2-3aff5d772a2aSpecial Guest: Abby Timms.
Traveling the road to better teaching with Nicole Roberson as we discuss how she enhanced her teaching as an experienced high school science teacher by taking on the challenge of teaching Advanced Placement Biology.
Links from the epidsode
Global Teaching Project
Mississippi Public School Consortium for Educational Access
Joyful Learning: Active and Collaborative Strategies for Inclusive Classrooms
Teacher's Journey: Mile Markers on the Road to Better Teaching is sponsored by the University of Mississippi School of Education and is an Amidon Planet production.
For more on portfolio development at the University of Mississippi School of Education, check out Portfolio School.
Music by Slip.stream - "Farmers Market" - https://slip.stream/tracks/e71db9fe-d06e-433b-87f2-3aff5d772a2aSpecial Guest: Nicole Roberson.
Traveling the road to better teaching with educational leader, Kristi Magee, as we discuss a professional development she designed and enacted for her school district to facilitate better teaching.
Teacher's Journey: Mile Markers on the Road to Better Teaching is sponsored by the University of Mississippi School of Education and is an Amidon Planet production.
For more on portfolio development at the University of Mississippi School of Education, check out Portfolio School.
Music by Slip.stream - "Farmers Market" - https://slip.stream/tracks/e71db9fe-d06e-433b-87f2-3aff5d772a2aSpecial Guest: Kristi Magee.
Traveling the road to better teaching with Brandy Thomas as we discuss an conversation she had with a student that led to increased classroom engagement in learning to read.
Links for the episode
Brandy's Portfolio
Every Opportunity by Atlanta Speech School
Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School by Carla Shalaby
MC Means Move the Class: How to Spark Engagement and Motivation in Urban and Culturally Diverse Classrooms by Shaun Woodly
Amidon, J., Monroe, A., Rock, D., & Cook, C. (2020). Shame, Shame, Go Away: Struggle in Promoting Doers of Mathematics. Kappa Delta Pi Record, 56(2), 64-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/00228958.2020.172963
Teacher's Journey: Mile Markers on the Road to Better Teaching is sponsored by the University of Mississippi School of Education and is an Amidon Planet production.
For more on portfolio development at the University of Mississippi School of Education, check out Portfolio School.
Music by Slip.stream - "Farmers Market" - https://slip.stream/tracks/e71db9fe-d06e-433b-87f2-3aff5d772a2aSpecial Guest: Brandy Thomas.
Traveling the road to better teaching with Hannah Witherspoon as we discuss a mathematics lesson for the Marks Project
Teacher's Journey: Mile Markers on the Road to Better Teaching is sponsored by the University of Mississippi School of Education and is an Amidon Planet production.
For more on portfolio development at the University of Mississippi School of Education, check out Portfolio School.
Links for the episode
Hannah's Portfolio
Reclaimed Project Teacher Fellowship Program
Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project by Bob Moses & Charles Cobb
Amidon, J., Monroe, A., Rock, D., & Cook, C. (2020). Shame, Shame, Go Away: Struggle in Promoting Doers of Mathematics. Kappa Delta Pi Record, 56(2), 64-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/00228958.2020.172963
Music by Slip.stream - "Farmers Market" - https://slip.stream/tracks/e71db9fe-d06e-433b-87f2-3aff5d772a2aSpecial Guest: Hannah Witherspoon.
Traveling the road to better teaching with Della Davidson Elementary School Principal, Patches Calhoun, as we discuss mile markers in her development as a teacher AND an educational leader.
Links mentioned in the episode
Locker Problem
Mississippi Department of Education Video of Patches teaching mathematics
Conscious Discipline by Becky Bailey
Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding by Marshall B Rosenberg
Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B Rosenberg
Teacher's Journey: Mile Markers on the Road to Better Teaching is sponsored by the University of Mississippi School of Education and is an Amidon Planet production.
For more on portfolio development at the University of Mississippi School of Education, check out Portfolio School.
Music by Slip.stream - "Farmers Market" - https://slip.stream/tracks/e71db9fe-d06e-433b-87f2-3aff5d772a2aSpecial Guest: Patches Calhoun.
Traveling the road to better teaching with Dr. David Rock, Dean of The University of Mississippi School of Education, as we discuss teaching one student at a time.
Links
David Rock's TEDx talk
Teacher's Journey: Mile Markers on the Road to Better Teaching is sponsored by the University of Mississippi School of Education and is an Amidon Planet production.
For more on portfolio development at the University of Mississippi School of Education, check out Portfolio School.
Music by Slip.stream - "Farmers Market" - https://slip.stream/tracks/e71db9fe-d06e-433b-87f2-3aff5d772a2aSpecial Guest: David Rock.
Traveling the road to better teaching with Dr. Kristi Livingston as we discuss her growth working as a reading intervention specialist.
Links
One Page Reading Intervention Template from the episode
Amidon Planet Podcast E043: Joyful Learning with Dr. Alice Udvari-Solner
Teacher's Journey: Mile Markers on the Road to Better Teaching is sponsored by the University of Mississippi School of Education and is an Amidon Planet production.
For more on portfolio development at the University of Mississippi School of Education, check out Portfolio School.
Music by Slip.stream - "Farmers Market" - https://slip.stream/tracks/e71db9fe-d06e-433b-87f2-3aff5d772a2aSpecial Guest: Kristi Livingston.
Traveling the road to better teaching with Dr. Erica Avent as we discuss her experience around planning a school trip to New York City.
Links
The Process of Education by Jerome Bruner
The Necessity Principle by Guershon Harel
Teacher's Journey: Mile Markers on the Road to Better Teaching is sponsored by the University of Mississippi School of Education and is an Amidon Planet production.
For more on portfolio development at the University of Mississippi School of Education, check out Portfolio School.
Music by Slip.stream - "Farmers Market" - https://slip.stream/tracks/e71db9fe-d06e-433b-87f2-3aff5d772a2aSpecial Guest: Erica Avent.
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