#4: How a personal teaching philosophy can unify relationships, grading, engagement, & outcomes - with Morgan Torres-Unger
Education Upgrade with Jake SchulkeShow Notes
Morgan Torres-Unger is a teacher in California’s Central Valley, with experience teaching multiple age groups and content areas. In our conversations she shares a constellation of strategies and tactics which underscore important tenets of student-teacher relationships and how they improve all areas of teaching from classroom management to cognitive outcomes. Collectively, the ideas we discuss demonstrate a unified teaching philosophy which is simultaneously student-centered, learning-focused, data-driven, intrinsically differentiated, and yields positive outcomes.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 - Introduction
02:26 - Does your personality match your job?
07:16 - Using vulnerability to explore students’ needs
09:57 - Creating opportunities for creative exploration
16:20 - Time, play, choice and attention
18:04 - Differentiating math instruction in a spectrum of skill levels
22:43 - Fallout of distance learning
25:38 - Maslow before you can Bloom
29:56 - Headgear Girl
34:31 - Boundaries of bullying
38:23 - Integrating healthy teen behavior into class structure
47:09 - Compliance does not increase learning.
51:22 - Motivation systems
54:10 - Assessment and grading: Test corrections, tutoring and reteaching
1:02:25 - District guidelines for grading
1:05:55 - A grade that measures academic progress
1:10:30 - Getting high at school
1:16:11 - Sex stuff: Real conversations with ‘tweens
1:23:23 - Listen like they should be listened to
1:29:51 - Sex education in the digital age
1:36:35 - Male role models for teen girls
1:49:29 - Teachers who nurture relationships
2:03:18 - Grace to increase engagement and achievement
2:10:55 - Examining the outcomes
2:23:27 - Examining what you are assessing
2:37:02 - Continuous improvement
2:47:19 - Closing
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