The Educator’s Career Coach Podcast

#130 Why Students Cheat?

Cheating in math really angers most teachers. Most of us feel that it’s not fair and students need to be punished for that event. But is that the type of relationship we wants students to have with us or the content? If not, let’s explore reasons why students cheat and what we can do about it.

#129 Tool to Build Confident Students: Managing Failure

Failure, even the word makes me cringe. The idea of feeling around failure for me and so many of our math students can create a barrier to learning. In this episode, I explore how we can change that by making two minor changes to our classroom interactions.

#128 Tool to Build Confident Students: Patience

Patience is challenging when teaching math. We have the pressure of time, which is in conflict with our patience. But are we minimizing student confidence with our impatience build to understanding math? I want to explore that idea and how we can overcome our desire to be impatient.

#127 Tool to Build Confident Students: Daily Routines

Daily routines can be a powerful tool in our life and in our math classrooms. We can all say we have routines to start the class, but the routine of warm-up does more harm than good. In this episode, I explore one shift you can make in your daily routine to start math classrooms off right.

#126 Tool to Build Confident Students: Feedback

We all want our students to be more receptive to feedback, however we are finding that students most times disregard our methods. Why? In this episode, I share research on the different types of feedback and how we can shift the feedback so that it becomes a tool for student learning.

#125 Tool to Build Student Confidence: Goals

We all talk about the power of setting goals, but why doesn’t this work for students and teachers. It’s because of the type of goals we set. In this episode, I share research identifying the 2 types of goals and how one is much better than the other for our students.

#124 Tool to Build Confident Students: Choice

In math most people believe that there is a right way, so there is not much choice. I use to believe that, but now I know that choice is necessary in math and powerful for students. In this episode, I explore 4 ways to give choice in math and resources to support your out transition.

#123: Tool to Build Confident Students: Can Do Attitude

Student confidence is lacking in math. Is that because of what we praise? I believe so. In this episode, I explore why looking for what students can do is more important than looking for student mistakes

#122 Tool to Build Confident Students: Guided Discovery

We constantly talk about student confidence as a problem in math. I think on reason for the lack of confidence is connected to us spending a lot of time telling kids just to follow rules. In this episode, I share the damage telling causes and one shift that will make a big difference.

#121: One Move to Build Confidence in Math

We all want our math students to feel confident, but just telling them does not work. So what can we do? In this episode, I share one shift you can make to building the confident students you always desired.