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| UPDATE | What I've Been Working on & Pushing Pause on the Podcast | 07 Sep 2020 | 00:09:57 | |
I realized that it's pretty difficult to schedule podcast interviews when you have a new baby in the house with a somewhat unpredictable nap schedule, and I decided I wasn't going to cut into family time. COURSES FOR TEACHERS I'VE BEEN CREATING During the times the little one napped, I decided to create a new course called Create Successful Videos for Distance Learning. It's a 1-hour self-paced course to help teachers who need to create video lessons but aren't sure where to start. Additionally, I spent time making changes to my classroom economy. Since our school is completely remote until at least mid-October, I had to come up with
I've added all of those resources to my course How to Teach Kids About Money. That two-hour course was originally created with a normal classroom environment in mind, but many of the things still apply to a virtual classroom economy. PLACES I'M PUTTING OUT THE MOST CONTENT Once I completed the courses, I decided to focus my efforts on my Instagram and YouTube channels. On my Instagram channel, I've been posting stories each school day about how I'm approaching that day of distance learning, often sharing tech tips along the way. On my YouTube channel, I've been creating videos all about distance learning technology and lesson ideas. PUSHING PAUSE ON THE PODCAST With all of that going on, something had to give so I decided to pause the podcast until further notice. CONNECT WITH ME I'd love to hear how things are going with you and how I could help; what kind of content would be beneficial for you right now?
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| 6 Teacher Wellness Tips for a Quarantined Summer | 12 Jun 2020 | 00:28:41 | |
I walk through six tips on how to ensure your summer is a time to recharge, including:
Also, this will be my last podcast for the summer! I'll be back in August with more episodes to help you middle-school STEM teachers create meaningful and memorable experiences for your students! RESOURCES CONNECT WITH THOM
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| How to Keep Your Sub Days From Being a Total Wash | 07 Feb 2020 | 00:26:43 | |
During my semester as a sub before becoming a full-time teacher, I had many a days of little to no sub plans. I also had a good handful of days of detailed and thorough sub plans. Days with the full set of sub plans were far better both for me and for the students and I've sought to provide subs in my own classroom with the same direction. In today's episode I discuss:
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| How to Celebrate Multiculturalism in Your Class...Even If All of Your Students Are White | 31 Jan 2020 | 01:07:08 | |
My guest today is Roberto Germán, director of middle school and creator of the educational consulting group 'The Multicultural Classroom.' In today's episode we explore:
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| Have Students Make Your Coffee...And Other Class Job Ideas | 24 Jan 2020 | 00:27:25 | |
Class jobs in and of themselves have tremendous value in creating a positive classroom culture, building responsibility in students, and saving YOU time as the teacher. My classroom jobs are part of a larger classroom economy system. If you want to dive into how I do that, check out the course I created for teachers linked below: 'How to Teach Kids About Money' course - www.thomgibson.com/classroomeconomy 20% off coupon code - MONEY The full list of jobs can be found in Module 1, and all of Module is FREE so check it out. CONNECT WITH THOM
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| 10 Grading Time Hacks | 17 Jan 2020 | 00:33:36 | |
It's good to be doing the podcast again after some time off over the holidays! When I got back to school, I led a PD session for my colleagues on how to save time grading and thought it'd make for a valuable podcast. TIMESTAMPS
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| Screaming at Kids, Comparing Students, and Creating a Self-Sustaining Classroom | Q&A Show | 28 Oct 2019 | 00:32:10 | |
In this Q&A show, we discuss:
Let me know how you like this format. It was a lot of fun for me to answer and much less editing! RESOURCES MENTIONED
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| How Do You Teach Creativity? | 28 Sep 2019 | 00:50:53 | |
A conversation on Facebook with my friend Jake led me to ponder the nature of teaching kids how to do creative work. Jake Ritter is a broadcast journalism teacher and John Mulvany is an artist and art teacher of 26 years. In this episode we chat about:
Plus you'll hear audio from both Jake's and John's classroom in how they support their students. The original video I posted on Facebook that sparked this conversation was titled '5 Biggest Mistakes I've Made As A Teacher' and you can watch that HERE. Just for fun, here is the final product for 'The Bachelor' piece the students did ____ CONNECT WITH JOHN MULVANY CONNECT WITH JAKE RITTER
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| Should You Start Your Own Teacher Podcast? | 28 Aug 2019 | 00:51:06 | |
Chris Nesi and Jeff Bradbury are two of the biggest names in educational podcasting. Chris is the creator of the House of Ed Tech podcast as well as the Education Podcast Network, which is a community of educational podcasters that includes the likes of The Cult of Pedagogy with Jennifer Gonzalez and The Google Teacher Tribe. Jeff Bradbury from TeacherCast is the creator and host of NINE different educational podcasts, including Educational Podcasting Today which is a podcasts all about educators getting into podcasting! In this episode, we discuss:
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| Giving Students Voice Through Socratic Seminars | 28 Jul 2019 | 00:51:58 | |
Join me as I sit in on Chalimar Chieza's 9th grade World Geography class as they dive into a socratic seminar. Hear students form hypotheses around the question**"why do people around the world have different skin tones?"** as well as my discussion with Chalimar on how she structures the socratic seminar so all students have a voice. We discuss the following:
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| Leveraging Social Media as Educators [Part 2/2] | 01 Jul 2019 | 00:47:49 | |
Michael Hernandez & Don Wettrick are two educators that are actually assigning students social media homework; tweet at least three times a week, connect with an influencer on LinkedIn, discuss how the new Instagram updates will change your content strategy. They're not utilizing social media for it's own sake, but to leverage the greater work of students telling stories and directing their own learning. In this episode, we discuss:
This is part 2 of a 2-part series. Listen to Part 1 with YouTuber/Instagrammer teacher CJ Reynolds - Leveraging Social Media As Educators [Part 1] CONNECT WITH MICHAEL HERNANDEZ
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| Leveraging Social Media as Educators [Part 1/2] | 28 May 2019 | 00:39:49 | |
CJ Reynolds is a high-school teacher in West Philadelphia with an active YouTube and Instagram channel where he documents the meaningful learning experiences in his classroom with the goal to inspire, engage, and motivate new and veteran teachers to be the teacher they always wanted to be. Reynolds uses "real rap" to share teaching tips and strategies and to give an authentic look at what it means to be a teacher in inner city Philadelphia. In this episode, we discuss:
This is part 1 of a 2-part series. In part 2, I will be chatting with a couple educators who are having their students create social media content as part of the class curriculum. CONNECT WITH CJ REYNOLDS
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| 3 Remote Teaching STEM Projects; TikTok, Minecraft, & eBay | 29 May 2020 | 00:45:05 | |
I got all these ideas from other educators on social media. In this episode, I take time to reflect on these three projects. I talk specifically about:
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| Esports in the Classroom | 26 Apr 2019 | 00:55:33 | |
I spoke with several people that are on the front lines of where esports and education intersect. We discuss:
You'll also hear a little audio from an esports project I tried out with my some of my students. Links
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| How to Use Storytelling in the Classroom | 28 Mar 2019 | 00:54:43 | |
A few months ago I didn't know that storytelling competitions were a thing. Then I heard Matthew Dicks on a podcast and he shared what makes for good storytelling. I thought it was interesting but it wasn't until he told a short 5-minute story that I was convinced of his mastery of the craft and I wanted to learn more. I found out Matthew Dicks was not only a champion storyteller but also a classroom teacher and that he had a podcast with his wife Elysha where they listened to stories told from the stage and critiqued them; sharing what made them such powerful stories and what they could have done to improve the story. I initially was drawn to the storytelling podcast because I thought I could get tips on how to tell better stories in social contexts but I walked away wondering how I could implement this into my classroom. In today's episode, Matthew and I explore the following:
LINKS AND RESOURCES Connect with Matthew at www.matthewdicks.com Matthew's storytelling podcast 'Speak Up Storytelling' 'Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling' by Matthew Dicks[affiliate link] The Art of Manliness Podcast episode with Matthew Dicks Connect with me, Thom Gibson | |||
| 'The Thom Gibson Podcast' Is Now 'Stories from the Classroom' | 27 Feb 2019 | 00:04:10 | |
In this short episode, I share a little bit of why I started this podcast, why I changed the name, and the vision going forward. Hope you like the new podcast art! Connect with me:
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| Mindfulness in the Classroom | 28 Jan 2019 | 00:42:24 | |
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| Epic Rap Battles in the Classroom | 26 Dec 2018 | 00:15:11 | |
Epic Rap Battles of History is one of my favorite YouTube channels. I knew that giving students opportunities to write songs about content was a good assessment, but I never thought of utilizing raps / slam poetry specifically. So much opportunity for students to show what they know in this creative assessment. Chalimar Chieza has been doing rap battles in her history classes for years. In this episode we talk about:
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| Collusion, Communism, and Catan...The Best Gamification of a Gov & Econ Class | 28 Nov 2018 | 00:47:11 | |
I got the chance to go into Mike Franz's high school gov & econ class when they were playing YOLO, a year-long game where one week of school represents one year of life. The first week of the game the students are 18 years old, the last week of the game they are near retirement age. What will they make of their society, of their economy, of their investments, of their world? We explore the following:
If you'd like to reach out to Mike about YOLO or gamification, he can be reached at: If you'd like to take a look at the YOLO rule book, here it is (it's a living document always being revised): Music by: | |||
| How To Love Out-of-Control Students | 28 Oct 2018 | 00:07:32 | |
Currently working on a couple Thom Gibson Podcast episodes that aren't quite done yet but I did want to get an episode out this month. In this, I pulled a review that I did for my #bookstagram Instagram account. It was a review of Carla Shalaby's 'Troublemakers' which is a book on what we can learn from kids who we generally deem as 'troublemakers' and how can we love and honor them as members or our learning community. I agree with the general premise of the book (work harder to love kids that are hard to love) but really had a hard time with the tone and arguments of the author on this one. Follow me on Instagram for more book & jerky reviews: See the video version of this podcast on my YouTube channel: | |||
| What Makes A Great 1st Day of School? | 30 Sep 2018 | 00:36:25 | |
With the start of the school year upon us, I've been thinking a lot about the first day of school. Is it the most important day? Special thanks to CJ Reynolds for his video that sparked this podcast. See the video and his YouTube channel HERE. Thanks to Terra Lynch for offering her 20 years of classroom insight to the discussion. You can find here on Twitter HERE and her new book, Protocols In The Classroom can be found HERE. Music by Hippo Campus | |||
| Having The Same Teacher For 13 Years | 27 Jun 2018 | 00:35:22 | |
Think of your Kindergarten teacher. How do you think your educational experience would have been different if that teacher continued to be your teacher for every year until you graduated high school? In today's podcast I chat with Mark Rogers, who will be starting a 13-year experiment this year. The practice is called 'looping' where a teacher sticks with a group of students for more than one year. We discuss the following: Learn more about Mark Rogers 13-year looping project at loop13.org Follow Mark Rogers on Twitter at @rogersmarkd | |||
| Keeping Kids Curious In The Classroom | 24 May 2018 | 00:18:18 | |
In Kindergarten, students are bursting with curiosity; why are doorknobs round, what is carpet made out of, why are my fingers little? Unfortunately, as students progress through their education, they tend to become less curious about the world around them and settle for just asking the questions that will get them the answers to pass the tests that determine their future. In todays episode, I chat with two-time Teacher-of-the-Year science teacher Kelley Janes who takes time out of every class to allow students to ask questions about the world around them; fostering, encouraging and nurturing that innate curiosity. We talk about the following:
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| How COVID-19 Will Change Education | 15 May 2020 | 00:53:13 | |
I wanted to chat with someone about everything I had been reading online and seeing from schools around the world, some of which are beginning to open up after 3 months of remote learning. Carl Hooker was the first person to come to mind. Carl Hooker has been in education for 20+ years and is an Apple Distinguished educator, has served as a classroom teacher, instructional technologist, virtualization coordinator, director of innovation & digital learning, and founder of iPadpalooza, an educational technology conference in central Texas. In today's episode, Carl and I chat about what the future of education may look like not only in this upcoming school year but what it may look like beyond Covid19.
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| What Jiu Jitsu Has Taught Me About Education | 17 Apr 2018 | 00:34:52 | |
After a rough go as a kid in some of the schools I went to, I vowed to learn martial arts some day. A month after I turned 30, I joined a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu school. I've been going strong now for a little over 5 months and I've begun to see a little bit of overlap between the mats and the classroom.
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| My Search For Meaning | 30 Mar 2018 | 00:15:41 | |
A bonus track to the podcast: Our first book club review - Man's Search For Meaning. I share the things that made me thing, that I connected to, and the mindsets I hope to also maintain. | |||
| 5 Class Greetings To Improve School Culture | 01 Mar 2018 | 00:12:35 | |
Can High-5's really make that much of a difference in school culture? In this episode, I explore the various ways I've begun to greet students at the door right at the beginning of class and how they've helped build a positive culture in my classroom and school. I also have another teacher, Justin Aion sound off of why he started High-5 Fridays at his school and the effects it had on his own school culture. Music by Podington Bear | |||
| Running A Project-Based Middle School Robotics Class | 23 Jan 2018 | 00:11:10 | |
In episode 2, I recorded the sounds of my robotics classroom for a couple of days while they worked on and presented their final projects. I reflect on some of the observations of going back and listening to the audio. You also hear students working to troubleshoot their creations which included an electric guitar, a whack a mole, an etch-a-sketch, and robotic arm controlled via sensors on a glove connected bluetooth. Music by Podington Bear | |||
| Auctions, Marketing, & Loyalty Programs in Pre-Algebra | 08 Dec 2017 | 00:13:13 | |
I wanted to start a podcast so I did. Think of it as being a fly on the wall in my (and others) classroom. In this episode we go into the classroom economy auction that we have every month. Students bid on items, start their own businesses, create loyalty programs, and more. You hear the sounds of students arguing about prices, the excitement build up over a 'mystery item' in the auction, and the groans of buyers remorse. You can find more of how I run my classroom economy at www.thomgibson.com/classroomeconomy Hope you dig it :) Music by Podington Bear | |||
| Create Immersive Learning Experiences with Augmented Reality (without fancy equipment) | 01 May 2020 | 00:54:56 | |
My guest today is a teacher-of-the-year recipient and educator of 20 years. Carolina Carner has been utilizing augmented reality in her classroom for several years in her middle school classroom. Additionally she's worked with Google for Edu as a product expert in Google Expeditions, AR, VR, and Tour Creator. She's THE AR/VR person to talk to when it comes to implementation in the classroom. It was a fun conversation as she walked me through a litany of augmented reality apps, showing me their classroom application. You hear me experiencing them in real time. We explore:
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| How to Boost Engagement During Remote Learning (Without Using Zoom) | 17 Apr 2020 | 00:44:56 | |
I reached out to a handful of people on Twitter who had done distance learning for at least a couple of weeks already. Student engagement is one of the biggest challenges in distance learning. While I originally just asked for their best tip, I love that thoughts and guidance on how to increase student engagement was a part of each of their answers. In the episode, my guests are: Andrew Chiu | Hong Kong CJ Reynolds | New Jersey Mark Rogers | Texas Sam Kary | California They share the following:
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| A Better Way To Teach Math | 03 Apr 2020 | 00:56:21 | |
My guest today is a passionate math educator who has sought to teach learners in this exploratory manner and in a way that the students feel they are capable of understanding mathematical concepts deeply. In my conversation with Kevin Moore, we explore:
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| UPDATE: New Baby, COVID-19, and Life at Home | 19 Mar 2020 | 00:25:06 | |
Watch the video of this podcast - https://youtu.be/BpSlAy2nPd0 TIMESTAMPS
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| No Planning Time, Low Test Scores, & Correcting Students | Q&A Show | 21 Feb 2020 | 00:28:30 | |
In this Q&A show, we discuss:
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| Skype | Classroom Uses You Haven't Thought Of | 14 Feb 2020 | 00:34:55 | |
Today I chat with two educators who are all about Skype in the classroom. Jeni Long & Salleé Clark (who go by the dynamic duo name of Jenallee) are two Microsoft Innovation Educators with over 36 years in education collectively. In our conversation, we discuss:
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