Teaching Teaching
Teaching Teaching is the place for honest talk about teaching. Through real teacher stories, we explore why and how teaching matters—the struggles, the triumphs, what’s wonderful, and what’s not. It’s about making sense of teaching by learning from one another through the voices of those living it. This is true teacher talk.
Episodes
9 episodes
Teacher Brains How We Make Them
In this episode I talk about how we make our teacher brains through our attention to our teaching. Hope you find it interesting. From the episode:If we understand that our teaching is the medium and the medium is th...
Kids and Grades
In this episode, I talk about what it means when kids are totally focused on their grades- where that comes from and what we might do about it.Let’s start with the core problems with grading systems. Grading systems c...
Heart of Teaching- Being True to your Teaching
In this episode, I ask us to consider what is at the heart of our teaching. What is it that you hold onto that you must make happen in your teaching?From this episode:Our primary work is building a relationship with students.&n...
Kids with Differences- Part 3 Opportunities
For the moment, this is may be my last take on Differences. Prior episodes were about Difference as a Problem and Difference as a Challenge. This episode is about Difference as Opportunity. EnjoyExcerpt:...
Kids with Differences- Part 2 Challenges
In this episode I talk about differences as challenges- both for student and for us in our teaching. This is part 2. In the next episode I will talk about differences as opportunities for our kids and for our teaching.<...
Kids with Differences- Part 1 Problems
I take on differences kids bring to with them to our classrooms and how we struggle with them. Later episodes will turn this on its head and be about what we can learn from giving good attention to kids differences and how learning might ...
AI, Kids, Learning and Authorship
In this episode, I challenge us to think about AI, kids learning and authorship. I set out the challenges that teachers are finding with kids and their use of AI. I also challenge us to rethink how AI might matter to kids' learning.
The Teacher-Self - In Schools and Out
We all carry an inner voice that tells us how to learn. In this episode, I reflect on the teacher-self — how it is shaped by school, family, and culture, and how it influences whether we comply, resist, or truly engage. What might change if we ...
