Episode 33: Making Space

Little Things are Big Things Education
Little Things are Big Things Education
Episode 33: Making Space
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Season 1, Episode 33.

Welcome to Little Things are Big Things Education with K-Dub and T-Free. I’m Tim Freeburg, I teach high school math in Bowling Green, KY and am working on my 7th year of teaching in the classroom. In addition, I have facilitated social and emotional learning workshops around the country for 2 years with a group called Challenge Day. And I am David Kilpatrick-White. I have taught both middle school and high school social studies and am working through my 10th year. I also have coached primarily football, soccer and track  over the past 20 years. I have been both a head coach and a department head. We both want to welcome you to a conversation about how valuable relationship building is with our students in the classroom. We will cover topics like; connection activities, how relationships can be used to encourage student growth, and sharing our favorite memories from teaching. Everything we have accomplished in our classrooms goes back to the relationships we build with our students and is totally replicable. Feel free to use, share, adapt everything we provide here. And if you would like to go even deeper, we would love to have you join our Live Monthly Group, called the “Teacher Vault,” where we go live, with you, every month for an hour and deep dive into the latest research and tools available for you to use in your classroom and connect with students. You will also have access to teacher resources we have created and use in our classrooms. Now, without further ado, let’s get on to this week’s episode.

In this week’s episodes we look at the idea of Fear of Looking Stupid. How often do you have students shut down or act out because they don’t know what is going on? Its not uncommon for a student to default to IDK instead of trying because they are afraid of looking stupid if they try and get it wrong. Dave takes us through an activity to help us combat this by creating space in our classroom and lessons for student interests. Sometimes all it takes to build a safe learning space is making space for student interests.

For additional resources and to join our Teacher Vault, please check out our website at https://LittleBigEd.com and https://PeakStateMathematics.com.

Free Resources found here!

Until next week,

“Remember to always learn in a Peak State.” ~ T-Free

and

“Make it a great day!” ~ K-Dub. __________________________________________________________________________

Big thank you and shout out to the artist that is providing today’s intro music! Check ’em out!

MUSIC LINK Give by Silent Partner https://youtu.be/KGE5ZoafsY8

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