Notorious Pedagogues

In spring 2020 the Notorious Pedagogues invited their preservice teachers as guests on the podcast to discuss the work from their book club  groups. This is the sixth episode of the 2020 Book Club Podcast series. In this episode Drs. Schmidt and Kruger-Ross speak with Allison, Becca, Nick, and Teeyana about If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson.

In spring 2020 the Notorious Pedagogues invited their preservice teachers as guests on the podcast to discuss their work in their book club podcast groups. This is the fifth episode of the 2020 Book Club Podcast series. In this episode Drs. Schmidt and Kruger-Ross speak with Chloey, Alyssa, Kyrsten, and Morgan about The Fault in our Stars by John Green.

In spring 2020 the Notorious Pedagogues invited their preservice teachers as guests on the podcast to discuss their work in their book club podcast groups. This is the fourth episode of the 2020 Book Club Podcast series. In this episode Drs. Schmidt and Kruger-Ross speak with Abigale, Emma, Haley, and Marissa about Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz.

This is the third episode of our 2020 Book Club Podcast series. In spring 2020 the Notorious Pedagogues invited their preservice teachers as guests on the podcast to discuss their work in their book club podcast groups. In this episode Drs. Schmidt and Kruger-Ross speak with Enya, Hana, Helena, and Lindsay about Love, Hate & Other Filters by Samira Ahmed. Mentioned in this episode: Seeing White podcast series Teaching Tolerance Not Light But Fire by Matthew Kay How To Be An Antiracist & Stamped by Ibram X. Kendi

This is the second episode of our 2020 Book Club Podcast series. In spring 2020 the Notorious Pedagogues invited their preservice teachers as guests on the podcast to discuss their work in their book club podcast groups. In this episode Drs. Schmidt and Kruger-Ross speak with Brook, Emily, Fiona, and Meghan about All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven.

Welcome to the first episode of our 2020 Book Club Podcast series!  In spring 2020 the Notorious Pedagogues invited their preservice teachers as guests on the podcast to discuss their work in their book club podcast groups.  In this first episode of the series Drs. Schmidt and Kruger-Ross speak with Katie, Lauren, Mike, and Natalie about Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli.

In this update episode, Drs. Schmidt and Kruger-Ross discuss what worked and what didn't in Spring 2020. They also share their thoughts for Spring 2021 (when they teach WRH325 again).

In this brief podcast extra, the Notorious Pedagogues share some good news: Dr. Schmidt is the 2020 recipient of the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award from West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Learn more abut the award and wish her congratulations!

This episode follows directly from the conversation about the 2020 Book Club podcast assignment (Episode 203) and discusses the NCTE "Beliefs for Integrating Technology into the English Language Arts Classroom." This position statement grounds our teaching and is also the inspiration for our co-authored book. For more information on our book project, visit: https://sites.google.com/view/npbook/home. In short, the "Beliefs for Integrating Technology into the English Language Arts Classroom" are comprised of four statements: Literacy means literacies.  Consider literacies before technologies. Technologies provide new ways to consume and produce texts.  Technologies and their associated literacies are not neutral. To learn more, visit the NCTE Position Statement website: https://ncte.org/statement/beliefs-technology-preparation-english-teachers/

In this episode Drs. Schmidt and Kruger-Ross switch back into Season 2 ("Season 3" is our special ongoing miniseries "Going Virtual") and discuss the 2020 podcast assignment for our co-taught course, WRH 325.  We will soon be meeting with our students to record a series of podcast episodes discussing their book club pairings as they intersect with either visual literacy, aural literacy, or multimodal literacy. In short, you can expect episodes in the future focused on: VISUAL: All the Bright Places Love, Hate, & Other Filters Graphic R&J AURAL: Aristotle and Dante Stargirl Eleanor & Park MULTIMODAL Fault in Our Stars Everything Everything If You Come Softly

In this eighth episode of the miniseries Going Virtual, the Notorious Pedagogues interview Maria Mejia-Tucker, the inspiration for the miniseries. We talk about how Maria, an experienced instructional designer from both higher education and the corporate world, is thinking and reflecting about the response to COVID19. We talk flexibility, going virtual, and avoiding "Groundhog Day."

In this episode Drs. Schmidt and Kruger-Ross are joined by Dr. Dana Morrison (or just "Dana" because she's that popular) to discuss the current debate surrounding synchronous and asynchronous teaching/learning. Dr. Morrison is an assistant professor at West Chester University in the Department of Educational Foundations & Policy Studies. To learn more about UDL (Universal Design for Learning), see the CAST website on UDL Guidelines. To see just two examples of the mixed messages being shared at the moment, see the NYTimes article "Everybody Ready for the Big Migration to Online College? Actually, No" and this chart that has been circulating for a few weeks.

In the second of our theoretical focused episodes, Episode 6 presents and discusses TPACK - a model of teacher knowledge that includes technology as an important component. Additional Resources for TPACK TPACK Image Official TPACK website TPACK Explained (Schoology)

We turn in this episode (Episode 5) to the theory/framework perspective. We discuss SAMR, an acronym that helps teachers think through various ways of integrating technology.  Additional Resources on SAMR  Kathy Schrock's Guide to SAMR  8 Examples of Transforming Lessons using SAMR  SAMR Step Image  The Padagogy Wheel – It’s Not About The Apps, It’s About The Pedagogy

The focus of this fourth episode in our special series Going Virtual is Zoom, a video conferencing tool that many higher ed faculty are using to facilitate the transition to virtual teaching and learning.  Helpful Links:  Zoom Support  Zoom Support - Getting Started  Zoom Support - Joining a Meeting  Zoom Support - Using Personal Meeting  Zoom Support - Closed Captioning  Zoom Support - Meet Now vs Scheduled Meetings  Zoom Support - Join a meeting via Phone  Zoom Support - Waiting Room  Zoom Support - Automatically Transcribe Cloud Recording

In the third episode in this mini-series chronicling the NP's process of "Going Virtual" given world events surrounding COVID-19, Drs. Schmidt and Kruger-Ross discuss initial tools and apps that are being recommended to help facilitate this process. These tech tools include: Flipgrid Padlet Adobe Spark Microsoft Sway Twitter (see more below) Google Drive, Forms Twitter Users to Follow (This list was originally put together by Dr. Schmidt for our secondary English preservice teachers so it is skewed towards secondary English) Mrs. Tricia Ebarvia Dr. Paul Gorski  Dr. Valerie Kinloch Dr. David E Kirkland Dr. Kim Parker Dr. Sonja Cherry Paul Ms Julia E Torres Organizations to Follow ALAN International Literacy Association (ILA) ISTE National Writing Project (NWP) NCTE - National NCTE - Local  PAWLP PCTELA Project Lit Community PSEA Teaching Tolerance We Need Diverse Books Hashtags to Follow #31DaysIBPOC #BuildYourStack #DisruptTexts #TheEdCo

This is the second episode in a mini-series chronicling the NP's process of "Going Virtual" given world events surrounding COVID-19. Drs. Schmidt and Kruger-Ross discuss taking care of and being in communication with their students.

This is the first episode in a mini-series chronicling the NP's process of "Going Virtual" given world events surrounding COVID-19. Drs. Schmidt and Kruger-Ross process the past few days and sketch out a number of topics to discuss in future episodes. For specific information about WCUPA and COVID-10, see https://www.wcupa.edu/healthNotices/

This episode updates our episode from last season on the Book Club to include the new and improved WRH325 Book Club assignment, this time with Shakespeare! Have a listen to learn more about the Spring 2020 Book Club. Students are using MyShakespeare.com to read Romeo & Juliet, and you can click here to see the YAL Book Club book pairings.

In this brief episode we provide an update on our research and inform listeners about what they need to do if they want to participate. To learn more, visit https://sites.google.com/view/npbook/home