Stay ConnectedIn the Teach 4 the Heart podcast, Linda Kardamis shares ideas and inspiration to help you overcome your teaching challenges and make a lasting difference in your students’ lives.
Designed for Christian teachers in both public and private schools, Teach 4 the Heart strives to present every discussion from a Biblical perspective.
Season 1 will discuss classroom management. Future season’s topics TBA but will likely include work/life balance, how our faith should affect our teaching, and more.
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Giving students choices can help them be more engaged and responsible for their own learning. But how exactly should this work? In this episode, we explore twenty student choice ideas - and tips for how to share and delegate control without abdicating it.
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Join us as I share lessons and insights from my time back in the classroom this past month.
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Keeping an appropriate noise level during independent and group work can be a huge challenge. In this episode, we discuss seven tips to keep kids quiet and focused during these times.
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Some teachers tend to embrace new ideas and strategies while others cling to old ones. But the truth is that we shouldn't judge a strategy based on its age – and the most effective classrooms are a wonderful combination of the best new ideas and the most effective old ones.
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Have you ever considered flipping your classroom – where instead of teaching during class and sending practice home for homework, you flip it and ask students to watch a lesson at home and then practice or do an activity together in class?
Here's ten reasons you should definitely try a flipped classroom – at least once or twice.
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The Supreme Court recently ruled on the case Janus v. AFSCME, determining that teachers (and all public employees) can no longer be forced to join the union. David Schmus, director of Christian Educators Association, joins us to explain the case and the new rights it gives public school teachers regarding union membership.
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We can all think back on some bad teachers we've sat under – teachers whose bad habits make us cringe with the memory.
But rather than criticize or point fingers, let's examine some of these bad habits to ensure we don't fall into them ourselves.
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The first day of school will be here before we know it. Here's ten things we as teachers should do before that first bell rings.
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Students face so many challenges today, and we as teachers often feel inadequate to truly help. Sometimes our efforts seem like a drop in the bucket compared to what they need.
But as we discuss today with Ashley Ogal of We Teach Joy, God is more than able, and He has placed us in those students' lives for a reason. We are called to be an example, to plant seeds in their hearts, and to intercede for them in prayer.
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