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Episode 86: Q&A and Feedback for April, 2022
April 24th, 2022 | 42 mins 17 secs
q&a/feedback
Toni Rose and Zach tackle listener questions! Topics include motivation, guided notes, collaboration, tech tools, teaching novels, and standardized tests in the context of MCP.
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Episode 83: Misconceptions About Self Pacing
April 3rd, 2022 | 1 hr 6 mins
feature
This week, Zach is joined by Andrea Mahr, Beth Benavides, and John Tyler to address six common misconceptions about self pacing and self-paced classes.
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Episode 63: Special Education in a Modern Classroom
November 14th, 2021 | 46 mins 35 secs
Toni Rose is joined by special education teachers Khadejah Scott and Noah Beigalmacher to discuss how the model facilitates many common accomodations while providing other built-in supports for students with IEP's and 504's.
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Episode 34: Monitoring Student Progress in a Modern Classroom
April 18th, 2021 | 48 mins 32 secs
This week, we're joined by Allura Pfeister to talk about how we monitor self-pacing, diving deep on the strategies and types of progress trackers we've used in our elementary, middle, and high school classrooms.
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Episode 29: Q&A From the Community #3
March 14th, 2021 | 46 mins 41 secs
In our third Q&A episode, we answer questions from the community on topics ranging from revision, mastery-based grading and summative assessments, and pacing tracker implementation.
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Episode 15: MCP Q&A
December 6th, 2020 | 49 mins 21 secs
education
Your hosts answer audience questions. Topics include implementation of the model, differentiation, collaboration, and deadlines. You can submit questions for future Q&A episodes at www.modernclassrooms.org/askmcp or tweet at us with the hashtag #askmpc
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Episode 11: Collaboration Pt. 2 - Planning for Organic Collaboration
November 8th, 2020 | 44 mins 3 secs
collaboration, education, self-directed learners
In Part Two of our series on collaboration in a Modern Classroom, we discuss how teachers can establish a classroom culture in which students are encouraged to collaborate organically and spontaneously.
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Episode 10: Collaboration Pt. 1 - Planning for Collaboration in a Modern Classroom
November 1st, 2020 | 46 mins 54 secs
collaboration, education
In episode 10, we begin a two-episode series on collaboration; this week's episode focuses on pre-planned full group activities like labs and seminars, and we discuss ways teachers can manage these collaborative activities in a self-paced, mastery based class.
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Episode 8: Elementary, Middle, and High School Modern Classrooms
October 18th, 2020 | 38 mins 25 secs
In Episode #8 of the Modern Classrooms Podcast, we hear from elementary, middle, and high school educators about what self-pacing and mastery-based learning looks like across grade levels.