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Melissa Milner Melissa Milner

The Teacher As Facilitator: Student Voice and Choice Part 2

In this minisode season finale, Melissa continues to share one of her favorite articles about voice and choice by Alfie Kohn. Choices for Children: Why and How to Let Students Decide. In addition, she talks about a time management concept that can be applied to the classroom and she looks back at the episodes of the fifth season.

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Melissa Milner Melissa Milner

Zooming In on Narrative Nonfiction with Candace Fleming

Candace Fleming is an author of many fiction and nonfiction books for children and young adults. Among other things, Melissa and Candace talk about the research process, the power of nonfiction and how teachers can help students get more specific in their research.

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Melissa Milner Melissa Milner

The Teacher As Facilitator: Student Voice and Choice Part One

In this minisode, Melissa shares from one of her favorite articles about voice and choice. Choices for Children: Why and How to Let Students Decide by Alfie Kohn lays out the rationale for voice and choice as well as what it looks like in practice. In this minisode, Melissa highlights the rationale and she will highlight what it looks like in practice in her next minisode.

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Melissa Milner Melissa Milner

Spring Episode Preview

In this episode, Melissa shares her amazing Spring lineup of guests. Just to list a few, math educators Jen Hawkins, Ann Elise Record, and Dr. Nicki Newton return to The Teacher As…Podcast. Also, Daphne Russell - self proclaimed educational evolutionist and chaos pilot- will discuss reading.

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Melissa Milner Melissa Milner

Zooming In on a Mindhunter with Dr. Ann Burgess

Melissa speaks with Dr. Ann Burgess, a leading forensic and psychiatric nurse who worked for the FBI for over two decades. Dr. Ann tells how she educated FBI agents in data collection and organizing their research. She also shares about her college teaching her work to help with threat assessment in schools.

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Melissa Milner Melissa Milner

The Teacher As Film Editor: Student Accomodations

In this Teacher As Film Editor minisode, Melissa talks about Walter Murch’s philosophy that film editing is the “discovery of a path.” Melissa shares the parallels to teaching and specifically to accommodating for diverse learners.

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Melissa Milner Melissa Milner

Ep. 92: The Teacher As Filmmaker/Jodie Foster

It is important to be prepared and to plan in order to be flexible and creative. In her Master Class, film director, Jodie Foster, shares the importance of planning in her work and the metaphors to teaching are powerful.

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Melissa Milner Melissa Milner

Episode 62: Zooming In on Academic Integrity with Eric Gibbs

In this episode, Melissa chats with Eric Gibbs, President of Ouriginal, a plagiarism software for K-12 and higher education. Eric shares how teachers can use the software as part of the writing process to help students learn how to create original work.

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Melissa Milner Melissa Milner

Episode 48: Zooming In on Interviewing with Dave Malkoff

In Episode 48, I chat with investigative journalist Dave Malkoff about his work for the Weather Channel and beyond. He gives teachers his recommendations for improving students' interviewing skills and how they should focus on telling a story. This is a great follow up to my recent Podcasting with Students series.

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