10 Minute Teacher Podcast with Cool Cat Teacher

Latest Episodes:

Hope King: How to Engage Students and Find Your Creative Breakthrough (e306) May 07, 2018

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Hope King from Ron Clark Academy has an inspiring message for teachers about using your creativity to engage students. She talks about how every teacher can make their classroom more exciting and why it is necessary.

Show Notes: www.coolcatteacher.com/e306

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Wanda Terral: 5 Ways to Help Kids Understand Digital Safety Without Scaring Them To Death (e305) May 04, 2018

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Safe experiences with monitoring and support can help children understand digital safety. In today's show Wanda Terral talks about how to help kids understand digital safety.

Show Notes: www.coolcatteacher.com/e305

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Kyle Pearce: How to Make Math Visual (e304) May 03, 2018

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Kyle Pearce talks about how to make math visual for students. Discussing current theories supporting effective math teaching, Kyle helps us understand how to improve math understanding with kids who struggle.

Show Notes: www.coolcatteacher.com/e304

Denis Sheeran: How We Should be Teaching Math in Classrooms Today (e303) May 02, 2018

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Math teacher Denis Sheeran talks about what math should (and shouldn't) be. Make math meaningful and real with these tips and ideas.

Show Notes: www.coolcatteacher.com/e303

Bethany Petty: Using Edtech to Enhance Learning - e302 May 01, 2018

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Education technology must enhance learning. If it doesn't, why use it? Today's guest, Bethany Petty gives us pointers and shares a common pitfall of those implementing new technology in the classroom.

Show Notes: www.coolcatteacher.com/e302

Wade King: Find Your Creativity Wildcard - e301 Apr 30, 2018

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We can unleash our creativity as teachers if we want to inspire our students. Co-author of Wildcard, Wade King, shares how.

Show Notes: www.coolcatteacher.com/e301

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5 Googley Ways to Celebrate Poetry Month (e300) Apr 27, 2018

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Eric Curts gives us five Googley ways to celebrate Poetry Month. From blackout poetry to rhymefinding extensions, learn about some tools you can use all year long in your language arts classes.

Show Notes: www.coolcatteacher.com/e300

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Building a Classroom Community by Having Parent Parties (e299) Apr 26, 2018

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Engage parents any time of the year with these strategies. Parent parties are fun, exciting ways to help parents and improve relationships. You can do this even now.

Show Notes: www.coolcatteacher.com/e299

Flipping Awesome Physics with an Asynchronous Flipped Gameful Mastery Learning Classroom (e298) Apr 25, 2018

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Jonathan Thomas-Palmer teaches physics. Students start with a zero and level up as they use videos, one on one help, and game-based mastery to master physics.

Show Notes: www.coolcatteacher.com/e298