E027 Joe Sweeney: The Importance of Connections
Description
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
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.
Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures
Cultivating Mathematical Hearts: Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching in Elementary Classrooms By: Maria del Rosario Zavala, Julia Maria Aguirre
Amidon Planet Podcast E032: Not Light, But Fire with Shimikqua Ellis
Designing Groupwork: Strategies for the Heterogeneous Classroom