Production team:

Host : Maria Xenidou

Producer: Julie-Roxane Krikorian

Introduction Voice: David Bourne

 

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 Music credits:

Like Lee performed by The Mini Vandals

Transition sounds: Swamp Walks performed by Jingle Punks

 

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Matt’s’s Podcast: The Good Humans Show 

 

Mentioned in this episode:

Weatherly High School

Indiana Area School District

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Listen to this episode and explore: 

Childhood: reading together as a family and Matt's early exposure to different opinions (3:29)

Getting his Bachelor Degree in Social Studies Education and his Masters in Online Teaching and Education (7:16)

Matt’s experience and attraction to online teaching (8:06)

The importance of mentoring and being mentored (10:28)

Showing up for his students day after day and never doubting them (14:33)

Building relationships and creating a culture to better foster learning in the classroom (16:53)

The 5 essential skills students need to build in a classroom (20:15)

What a Civics and Government class entails (23:10)

The skills students acquire in a Civics and Government class (24:21)

The Leadership Seminar course (25:22)

The Indiana High School Ambassadors program (26:29)

A new kind of assignment: having students write blogs for their history class (30:49)

Piloting and launching Google Apps for Education and teaching his fellow teachers how to leverage technology for online learning  (34:54)

The stress teachers experienced as they moved their classes online during COVID-19 (42:38)

How students responded to online lessons and distance learning (44:05)

How the teachers can ensure their students are doing okay during COVID-19 (45:28)

Maria’s thoughts on falling behind and why she doesn’t believe in it (47:03)

How teachers can know that their students may be struggling and need extra support (48:01)

Matt’s reflections and takeaways from teaching online during COVID-19 (51:02)

The one thing Matt wants to leave his mark on during his lifetime (55:15)

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