Pandemic Pedagogy

What do you think of when you imagine what attunement looks like? How often do you practice active listening? -- In this final episode, Sarah Faulx will share her experiences as a therapist. Again - so much of the ways in which we are human are amplified when we are in a teaching or therapy setting. How we as educators/therapists harness that humanness will vary. Some are boisterous and grab attention with humor. Others are quick to react. Still others lose themselves in the lecture. There is no one-size-fits-all. However, one thing seems quite clear following at least a year of pandemic pedagogy. Collective trauma requires a reset in the whichever type of classroom we are dealing with ... resetting our thinking, listening, and understanding. Stay tuned for our LIVE Reunion episode as well as plans for Season 2!!! Follow twitter for more information: @pandemicpedago1 or Send an email to: pandemicpedagogypodcast@gmail.com

Rachel Kallem Whitman is an adjunct professor of Psychology at Duquesne University. She is also a writer, activist, and someone I am honored to call my friend. The crux of our conversation is based upon the shared understanding between us that educators should be making learning possible by making sure that students feel safe. Though we didn't reference it in this conversation, Rachel and I have spoken many times about the concept of shared vulnerability. By showing our students that we are human, they are hopefully able to feel safe.  Mentioned in the podcast - Can MDMA Treat Racial Trauma - The Nod  https://gimletmedia.com/shows/the-nod/v4hvnw?utm_source=gimletWebsite&utm_medium=copyShare&utm_campaign=gimletWebsite Dr. Rach's website - Check it out! https://www.seebrightness.com/

“The goals isn't to drag them across the finish line — to check the boxes. It is to help them learn” - Sean Yeager. Shouldn't that be the goal for all of us? Take a listen to Sean's perspective on interdisciplinary teaching, radical inclusivity, and not taking anything for granted as 'universally understood'. Through this combination of methods, Sean has created a pedagogy that prioritizes intellectual growth without doing so at the expense of a student's health and shows us that learning happens when our students feel heard, acknowledged, and respected. A few shout-outs from this episode: - Sean mentions the course Strange Loops and Metamathematics at around 11:00. Sean would like to make sure that Douglass Hofstadter's name, as the author of Gödel, Escher, Bach, is highlighted. - Similarly, Sean would like to make sure that his reference to "Amy" at around 16:00, refers to Amy Shuman - Professor of English at The Ohio State University. - The mention of tea at the end should be attributed to Uncle Iroh (from "Avatar: The Last Airbender") -------------------------------------------- We have now completed half of the episodes for this season. If you are interested in participating in Season #2 or have any questions for me or our participants, please feel free to drop a line to: pandemicpedagogypodcast@gmail.com or tweet us @pandemicpedago1 Thank you for listening!

I hope you are as lucky as I am to have friends with whom you can discuss a variety of topics that might span undergarments to philosophies of education. Nicky Lewis is that friend for me. Nicky is formally trained with an MAT; however, it is Nicky's way of deconstructing and re-constructing learning environments that, in my mind, showcase her educational prowess. She is also able to sift through what seems to be the overwhelming amount of bureaucracy that is inevitable in institutional learning and focus on what is most important - real learning objectives that are meant to provide her students with the ability to continue learning way after they have left her learning environment. ------------------ We have now completed half of the episodes for this season. If you are interested in participating in Season #2 or have any questions for me or our participants, please feel free to drop a line to: pandemicpedagogypodcast@gmail.com or tweet us @pandemicpedago1 Thank you for listening!

This episode provides the perspective of the educator and administrator. Janet Hubbard has been teaching and leading in secondary education for over 20 years. She shares her experience transitioning to pandemic times while working in leadership an independent school of the Pacific Northwest. Stay tuned! -------------------------------------------- We have now completed half of the episodes for this season. If you are interested in participating in Season #2 or have any questions for me or our participants, please feel free to drop a line to: pandemicpedagogypodcast@gmail.com or tweet us @pandemicpedago1 Thank you for listening!

In Episode #2, we heard Erin discuss the challenges of teaching ballet through the zoom platform. In this episode, O'Ryan will share with us what he sees as some of the benefits of teaching performance art through zoom. I have learned so much through listening to colleagues of all stripes as they explain their teaching methods and challenges. O'Ryan brings me back to the original reason that I was drawn to the classroom - that feeling of mutual vulnerability and collaboration. Have you ever thought about why a clown might include deprecating tricks in their repertoire? Stay tuned to hear O'Ryan explain this and more.

For many of us, what has been driving our methodology in the classroom is empathy. In fact, this podcast was born out of an inquiry regarding the role of empathy in the classroom. When thinking about the ways that we can enact and exemplify empathy, one of the most striking examples is paying attention to how students are feeling, not just how they are learning. Nuria keeps this front and center in her teaching. For more information about Nuria, you can read about one of her most recent achievements receiving the graduate student teaching award!

There is a physicality to ALL teaching. It is inherent in the sense that we are human; and, as humans, possess bodies. The virtual setting has prompted all of us to consider what it means to be embodied and it has never seemed more prescient than when thinking about teaching and learning. And yet, you add yet another level of complication when what is being taught requires movement, presence, and is not easily captured through the confines of a small screen. Erin Halloran sheds light on this complication and opportunity in Episode #2 of our podcast. If you have any questions that you would like to ask me or our educators, or you would like to remain informed about the coming episodies, please feel free to drop an email to: pandemicpedagogypodcast@gmail.com

In this initial episode, I interview a long-lost friend from grade school - Kelli Green. Kelli has had an enormous variety of experience. She says - and I agree - that she has a teacher's heart.

Introducing … THE PANDEMIC PEDAGOGY PODCAST. [forthcoming]This podcast is for ANY person who self-identifies as engaging in teaching in ANY capacity and finds themselves struggling to adapt to the current climate of hybrid, remote, virtual learning in the CoVID era. Do you own a karate dojo and have developed some compelling teaching strategies - this podcast is for you. You have been teaching kindergarten for 10 years, this podcast is for you. You teach a graduate level seminar on nanotechnology, this podcast is for you. Have you ever wondered what great educators have in common? Are you curious to hear how other folks have adapted their teaching methods during CoVID? Through conversations between a large variety of individuals who engage in many different forms of teaching, you will be exposed to a number of ideas, thoughts, practices (and even complaints) about the rapid shifts in the current educational setting. I am a teaching professor of Spanish literature at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. In my 20+ years of experience in educational experiences that range from teaching young children abroad to teaching graduate courses on second-language teaching methodologies, I have grown more and more focused on not just the content of my courses, but the ways that they are taught. I am interested in learning about others' experiences in order to grow my own pedagogical purview, and, by doing it through this podcast, share with as many interested folks as possible. The podcast will consist of a series of interviews with educators from a variety of settings/background/geographical locations. The initial ‘season' is expected to include 10 episodes - released weekly beginning May 13th, 2021.