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Brave New Teaching: A Podcast for High School and Middle School Teachers Marie Morris & Amanda Cardenas, Secondary ELA Teachers
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4.8 • 264 Ratings
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Join hosts Amanda Cardenas (Mud & Ink Teaching) and Marie Morris (The Caffeinated Classroom) in discussions about being brave, trying new things, and all things teaching! As seasoned classroom teachers, Amanda and Marie bring their experience, insight, energy, and oh, so many opinions and ideas... It's time for all teachers to take their classroom and teaching practice into their own hands!
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🔒 HH 68. Spring Fever Banter
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199. LESSON PLAN RESCUE: NOT ENOUGH BOOKS
What do you do when you aren’t provided enough copies of books for every student? Unfortunately, this is a real problem that ELA teachers are facing. We know how incredibly frustrating and problematic this is for both teachers and students!
You want students to be engaged with the book. You know how important it is for students to read at home and dedicate class time to instruction. But access to limited materials is not allowing that to happen.
Today we’re back with a lesson plan rescue! We’re sharing creative and productive ideas to overcome this issue so you can still accomplish what you need to in your classes. We’ll look at how providing multiple ways of reading the book, decentering the novel, and layering units on top of each other can help you work around the lack of book copies.
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🔒 HH 67. DARIUS THE GREAT: CLOSE READ (ARAB AMERICAN AUTHORS)
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198. ESSENTIAL QUESTION WORKSHOP: THREE NEW EQs FOR TEACHING POETRY
Do you struggle with knowing where to start when it comes to writing essential questions? We completely understand the challenge and we’re here to help!
Essential questions play a crucial role in guiding lessons and engaging students in meaningful discussions. Knowing how to start crafting essential questions can be a challenge for some teachers. The truth is, there is no one place to start. It’s a process and you’ll likely refine your EQs year after year to make them stronger.
In this episode, we are sharing three essential questions for teaching poetry that showcase different ways for you to just start learning how to formulate your own EQs. We’re breaking down our thought process behind each EQ and how each could be used in your ELA classes.
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🔒 HH 66. Celebrating Arab American Heritage Month: New Book & Author Recs!
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197. TOP 10 TIPS FOR TEACHING POETRY: POETRY ROUND UP
Does teaching poetry intimidate you or make you feel insecure about your ability to effectively teach your students? You are not alone and we’re here to help build your confidence by breaking it down and making teaching poetry a bit more accessible for you!
When we are teaching something we aren’t very confident in (like poetry!), finding engaging and effective ways to teach it can be a challenge. The good news is there are ways you can incorporate teaching poetry into your lessons that keep your students interested, engaged, and learning.
Today, we are sharing our favorite tips for teaching poetry including creative ways to find new poems, incorporating poetry into novel units, and poetry March Madness. We’re also sharing how to make analyzing poetry more approachable and accessible for all students.
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Customer Reviews
So many ideas to use!
These ladies supply so many ideas that are accessible to teachers immediately. That saves time but I also know they will work! Camp BNT has been an awesome experience to explore curated authors I’d never have found, like Jo Chrona, who talked about starting local when exposing kids to Indigenous writers. It’s so simple and so wise and could be applied to LOTS of people of all walks of life in our kids’ environments! Have been a fan from the start and will continue spreading the word over and over to any educator I know.
Fun and Useful, but…
I have been listening to this podcast for almost 2 years and at the beginning it was really helpful with so many useful ideas and so much inspiration for my classes. Marie and Amanda are so chill and knowledgeable and fun to listen to, they are also very organized which helps with taking ideas afterwards and applying them to my own work.
However, more and more it seems that anything actionable or helpful is held behind a paywall and now about ⅓ of the podcast time is just spent on advertising their offers. For example, in their latest podcast episode, 186, the actual podcast didn’t start until 14 minutes into it. I completely understand there is a determined need to make this into a successful, profitable company, but I believe it is getting to a point where the enjoyment of listening is being crushed by the desire to sell the trainings — all of which I am sure are useful and worth it. It has sometimes gotten to a point where I get tired of the long-winded ads that I just skip the episode entirely.
I am hoping the podcasts can be better structured so the hosts can still inform listeners about their offers, but the primary purpose of the episode is not drowned out.
Best ELA podcast I’ve found
A few weeks ago I saw this podcast mentioned in a Facebook group for AP Literature and Composition teachers. I started listening, and I was shocked that I had missed all this fantastic contact for this many years. I’ve listened to at least two episodes a day for the past two weeks, and I’m working hard on redoing some of my units. I’ve felt more invigorated and inspired from this podcast than I have from almost any other PD I’ve done. Try it out!