On Teaching Math Podcast

Please visit https://thebeardedmathman.com/podcast to find show notes and other episodes.  E21 is about being creative and adapting the delivery of your message to students.  We cannot change our standards, but can change our support and approach.

To change the classroom dynamics and over all performance is a tricky thing, especially after the start of the school year!   Every classroom has a peer leader (often more than one).  While you're the teacher, the peer leader plays a powerful role and has great influence on the educational outcomes of all students in the class, even those that do not follow that person.  https://thebeardedmathman.com/podcast/E20

What do you do when a group of unwilling participants struggle to perform depends largely on how you view your role.  In this episode we discuss two camps of thought, and a current predicament faced in my classroom as a result of my philosophy. https://thebeardedmathman.com/podcast

What works for classroom management varies greatly from teacher to teacher. It also changes from teacher to class and from teacher to year. The point is, there are not fast and hard rules (specific ones anyway), that work for everybody, all of the time. Teaching is largely about the interplay and relationship between people. That is highly dynamic, so the structure must be flexible, yet rooted strongly in a correct philosophy, in order to be effective.

Studying, done with purpose, is the best thing outside of the classroom a student can do to improve their learning.   Studying, done without purpose, is largely a waste of time.  In this episode we dive into how students can discover purpose in their studying, and how you can guide students in discovering and defining that purpose. Please visit:  https://thebeardedmathman.com/podcast/E17