Episode 2 - Writing Across the Content Areas

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22 min. 41 sec.

In this episode, Kelly and John interview Agora ELA Curriculum Coordinator, Amanda Harbaugh, and Agora Middle School Social Studies teacher, Emily Sattler.

The guests and hosts discuss strategies to improve student writing in the cyber environment, the role played by non-ELA teachers to improve student writing, tools to improve student writing, and more.


Resources:

• Nearpod
• Peergrade

Episode 1 - Four Under-Rated Instructional Strategies

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19 min. 31 sec.

In this episode, Katie, Kelly, Steve, and John discuss what excites them about having a PD Podcast, and each of them share one underrated instructional strategy or an instructional strategy that they would like to see utilized more frequently. The four strategies discussed are:

• Giving students more control of their learning
• Using questioning strategies
• Tapping into your passion and tearing down barriers 
• Retrieval Practice

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Episode Resources

• The Illinois Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning has an outstanding overview of questioning strategies here.
• Three Minute Video on Retrieval Practice
• For more information on Retrieval Practice, visit RetrievalPractice.org's website here.