
We are Monica Kowalski and Erin Wibbens, professors of education working with beginning teachers in Catholic schools across the country. We believe that teacher formation is an ongoing process that includes learning from current research. In each episode, we will unpack a work of current educational scholarship and discuss applications for classroom teachers.Special thanks to our sound editor and ... more
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 15 | Founded | 7 years ago |
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| Category | Education | ||||

in this episode, we discuss a specific aspect of teaching: activating prior knowledge. We talk about why APK is important and how teachers can use APK strategies to effectively prime students to learn new knowledge.
Thanks to Joe Stone for music and... more
We discuss the pervasive neuromyth of Learning Styles and talk about alternative ways to reach all learners with evidence-based teaching practices.
www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-myth-of-learning-styles/557687/
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Monica and Erin chat about some cool teaching ideas they have seen in their recent classroom supervision visits. Send ideas for future episode topics to Monica at kowalski.42@nd.edu!
There are so many types of assessment that happen in schools. Today we talk about progress monitoring, including curriculum-based monitoring. We discuss how and why these are used in classrooms and what teachers should do with them.
Thanks to Joe Sto... more
In this episode, we chat about how teachers can use "talk moves" to facilitate classroom discussions. Talk moves are great for formative assessment and for improving writing.
The article we reference can be found here: my.nsta.org/resource/?i... more
We discuss Kara Newhouse's MindShift article: Four Core Priorities for Trauma-Informed Distance Learning.
www.kqed.org/mindshift/55679/four-core-priorities-for-trauma-informed-distance-learning
For more about Trauma-Informed Teaching, we reco... more
Today we chat about how we approach the teaching of reading as we read Lucy Calkins' article "No one gets to own the term 'The science of reading.'" We talk about the history of the "reading wars" and how we both endorse a balanced literacy approach.... more
In this episode, we discuss the article "No one wants to be a loser: High school students' perceptions of academic competition" by Kowalski and Christensen. The article can be read here: www.mwera.org/MWER/volumes/v31/issue4/V31n4-Kowalski-FE... more
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