Bonus Episode: Roxanna Elden
Saying the quiet part out loud
"...what it means to be apart of a community as a teacher?"
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More About Today's Guest:
Roxanna Elden is the author of Adequate Yearly Progress: A Novel, and See Me After Class: Advice for Teachers by Teachers. She combines eleven years of experience as a public school teacher with a decade of speaking to audiences around the country about education issues. She has been featured on NPR as well as in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and more.
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About the Bonus Episode:
In this special bonus back-to-school episode, Roxanna Elden, former high school teacher and author of See me after class: Advice for teachers by teachers and Adequate Yearly Progress talks to us about unpacking all the tiny things about effective classrooms that perhaps we don't always want to discuss. We hope this witty conversation provides useful tips for you as we enter into this academic year together.
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Main Discussion Points
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How can a teacher the successful in today's date with the growing cultural diversity in the classroom?
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How How can students viewpoints contribute to the overall image on how to be the "ideal teacher"?
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What can we do as individuals to promote better attitudes towards teaching?
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