Teacher Geeks shares tips and tricks for busy teachers. Hi, My name is Travis Dixon and I'm a proud teacher geek. I've experienced all of the problems facing modern teachers, but what I have to offer are heaps of strategies and ideas that I think will help. We won't need more pedagogy in the classroom, we need more practicality. Teacher Geeks is devoted to sharing actual classroom practices that will save you time, effort and energy while still increasing engagement, effectiveness and enjoyment. The best (and worst) thing about teaching is that there's always something more to do and new to learn. My mission is to create a community of like-minded teacher geeks who are proud of our profession and want to become better teachers. If you've got ideas you'd like to share, please get in touch. I LOVE talking teaching and hearing from fellow teacher geeks! Cheers, Travis Dixon.
This is fantastic. Thank you making the video. I am currently studying about various taxonomies and now after watching this, everything makes perfect sense. Not only have you provided a clear method to follow but it includes differentiation of outcomes within the lessons. I am convert already.
This is a great idea. Teaching summer school and running out of activities to use with the kids to keep them motivated. My classes takes differentiated instruction to another level. I can have 4yr-17yr old in the same class! Or all 17 yr olds but at different cognitive, social and developmental levels. Fun! Definitely stretching me in ways I never knew and failing as I learn.
Thank you for explaining the basis information here. It’s pretty hard for me to simplify lessons, so this will help me a lot as I plan classes for my own college preparation.
Absolutely LOVE this video!!! Now I'm not a teacher, I'm a homeschooler, but I constantly take in information to improve any way I can. I'm going to subscribe cause I love how you get to the point and have a good sense of humor. I think if you're up for it, some tips for homeschoolers would be great.
I like the model you propose. Continuous improvement with building blocks. Then you can knock down the wall of rules to discovery or build a bridge and apply it.
Good on you for putting this content out. Maybe angle your channel towards parenting. You're a teacher and a father. I think if you show parents how to be parents using these models your channel will explode. Pardon me though not trying to tell you how to do things, just a suggestion. Parents need alot more help.
I teach in a Bilingual school in Asia. While this technique, and others, are quite well and good, they fall apart when a majority of your students cannot communicate in English.
So you did leave the classroom and you're now teaching online part-time. The teachers that are doing videos about quitting teaching are talking about leaving the classroom also, which you also did.
C - Consolidate H - Hook (sets up outcome)(perhaps a question for them to answer) A - Activities C - Check-in (assessment or feedback) (application test) E - Extend ( students have the freedom to extend their knowledge of their own free will(pick your own adventure)) R - Reflections (summarise what we did/went over)
Extend is thing that i never thinked about. I had this problem on my lessons, but i didn't prepare to it, because it runs out of mind. How do you handle without lesson's timing?
I'm not sure if hypocrite is the right word, but he is certainly contradictory. On the one hand he says the greater the effect size (ES) the greater the impact. But then in interviews with academics who question how he got those ES, he retreats, e.g with Prof Larsen - "And they look at that effect-size table and say tick, tick, tick to the top influences and no, no, no to the bottom, and this was never my message." (p. 28). A simple look at the background studies, e.g., Feedback, shows the studies he used have NOTHING to do with Feedback in a classroom, his recent 2020 Feedback Revisited removed 19 of the original 23 studies he used getting a much lower ES=0.48 - details here - visablelearning.blogspot.com/p/feedback-revisited.html
if you have 10 teams of 3 students, the team w/ most points will win? So each team is working together to accrue the most points against other teams in class/
I play it so that each kid in the group of three is playing against each other, so if you have 30 students you have 10 different games going on at the same time. I often subtly ability group, too.
I cant get access To your lesson plans about psichology, im a psychology teacher in mexico, and i really think this would be really helpfull for my classroom, can you Help me? Whit your lesson plans???
Pay is a problem. When you cannot pay your bills and have to work a second job on top of all the extra responsibilities it makes the job less attractive. We have to stop saying we are doing it for the kids. We do not expect physicians to say they do the job for the patients.
I totally agree and please do more detailed lesson plan examples of your actual units. L. P. have been the most confusing for me as an educator when in actuality they should be a guide for us(teacher). I absolutely loved your idea!!!
Great explanation! I knew that there are problems with Bloom's but I can't explain what it is. Now, I know what it is. Your video is beneficial for a teacher like me. I will definitely apply this framework in my teaching. Subscribed!
Good one! Obviously, if there is evidence of explicit bias in our teaching that is making it tougher for certain groups to achieve, we would want to eliminate it. But that’s not what usually comes up when data like this is examined. I like your focus on each individual child - how we can help that particular student - in all of their complexity - succeed better.
You are right - this takes it to a clearer level of analysis. Thanks for putting this out there. See if you can get this into corporate training - it would make a big difference!
Love your channel and passion. Looked through your video list, but I'm a bit confused - which is the next video in your series on this? Ie your melding of blooms and solo? I've seen ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UIWL14jV7S8.html but I think I missed another. Cheers.
Absolutely brilliant! Where do I start? 1) Your main objective in teaching is for kids to learn and not to try to get them all to the same outcome. Yes! 2) If students don't know something, how can they think critically, or even creatively, about it. They need a foundation before they can manipulate it with creative and critical thought. And 3) Your three basic questions for teaching a lesson reminds me of the acronym KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid). I appreciate the concept of Bloom's taxonomy, but I think it complicates teaching and detracts from the actual learning process. Thank you for such an informative video! This one is definitely worth a rewatch, especially whenever I feel I might be complicating the process.
This was an oversimplification of why teachers are really quitting. You are correct that admin demands have increased and they don't provide time for teachers to accomplish those tasks.
Yes, lots extra demands. If a teacher is out and there is no sub, they may give you have of that teachers students with no extra pay. Discipline puts and extra burden on the teacher.
