

10 Minute Teacher Podcast with Cool Cat Teacher
Vicki Davis
A teacher podcast for busy educators—about 10 minutes, every week. Stay current on artificial intelligence in education (plain English), edtech, and what matters in the classroom: culture, instruction, assessment, digital health and wellness, and more. Simple ideas you can use right away.
Hosted by AP Computer Science teacher Vicki Davis (Cool Cat Teacher)—author and longtime edtech blogger—this teaching podcast features best-selling teachers, researchers, and in-the-classroom administrators sharing practical strategies that connect with today’s students.
Follow the 10 Minute Teacher—the podcast for teachers and school leaders—for weekly, classroom-ready tips.
Show notes & resources: https://coolcatteacher.com/podcast
Hosted by AP Computer Science teacher Vicki Davis (Cool Cat Teacher)—author and longtime edtech blogger—this teaching podcast features best-selling teachers, researchers, and in-the-classroom administrators sharing practical strategies that connect with today’s students.
Follow the 10 Minute Teacher—the podcast for teachers and school leaders—for weekly, classroom-ready tips.
Show notes & resources: https://coolcatteacher.com/podcast
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Feb 12, 2018 • 12min
Beat Boredom: Engaging Tired-Out Students in Critical Thinking (e251)
Students can seem tired and bored, but we can engage them in learning. Martha Rush has ideas and inspiration to help us reach our students this week! www.coolcatteacher.com/e251 Matific is Today's Sponsor: The US Matific Games have the warm up week starting February 14-20. Try Matific free now and sign up to join their Math games now. www.coolcatteacher.com/math

Feb 9, 2018 • 11min
5 Formative Assessment Strategies to Help with Classroom Management (e250)
Teacher Mike Roberts shares five innovative formative assessment strategies to enhance classroom management, including 'high five hands' self-assessment and Twitter summaries. The strategies focus on boosting student engagement through creative techniques like walk and talk, musical chairs, and vocab stories. Roberts emphasizes the importance of incorporating formative assessment to improve classroom management and ensure active student participation.

Feb 8, 2018 • 12min
Computational Thinking and Math for Elementary Grades (e249)
Fun, exciting tools and techniques can help very young kids understand math and learn computational thinking. Today’s guest, Steve Floyd, tells us how. Show notes: http://www.coolcatteacher.com/e249 Matific is Today's Sponsor: The US Matific Games are coming this February. Try Matific free now and sign up to join their Math games. www.coolcatteacher.com/math

Feb 7, 2018 • 11min
Admin Hack: Easy Paperless Contact Logs (e248)
Administrators and teachers have so many contacts with parents. Today’s guest, Meredith Akers, has gone paperless with her contact logs. She talks about how she did it, the time she’s saving, and her recommendations for building relationships with parents by becoming more organized with your contact logs. Show notes: www.coolcatteacher.com/e248 FREE MATH RESOURCE: The US Matific Games are coming this February. Try Matific free now and sign up to join their Math games. www.coolcatteacher.com/math - Sponsor

Feb 6, 2018 • 11min
iPad Magic: 6 Ideas Every iPad Teacher Needs to Know (e247)
Want to show your cursor on the iPad screen? Want to find the cents button? Want to help a student with a unique character spell their name? There’s a trick for these things and more on the iPad. Today, Tony Vincent shares six ideas every iPad teacher needs to know. Show Notes: www.coolcatteacher.com/e247 Matific is Today's Sponsor: The US Matific Games are coming this February. Try Matific free now and sign up to join their Math games. www.coolcatteacher.com/math

Feb 5, 2018 • 10min
Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching (e246)
You can change one simple thing to help transform your classroom. Change is a decision, not to leap forward but to take one small step and then another. Today, Pam Moran finishes up our series encouraging us to take small steps that make a big difference. She also helps us understand the mistake we make when we look too big picture and forget the small things we can do. Thank you, Pam for your time and wisdom and I hope everyone has enjoyed this four-part series with a truly remarkable educator. www.coolcatteacher.com/e246 Matific is Today's Sponsor: The US Matific Games are coming this February. Try Matific free now and sign up to join their Math games. www.coolcatteacher.com/math

Feb 2, 2018 • 11min
5 Home and Smart Phone Filtering Options for Parents (e245)
Children with smartphones have unfiltered access to the Internet unless their parents make a decision to filter. Today, we discuss five options for filtering and why it is something parents should discuss with IT Director Mike Daugherty from Ohio. www.coolcatteacher.com/e245 Check out our archives of past shows at www.coolcatteacher.com/podcast. If you like the show, will you leave a review on iTunes?

Feb 1, 2018 • 14min
Why Kids Can't Stop Moving: The Neuroscience Behind a Student's Need to Move (e244)
Students have reasons for how they behave, particularly if they have learning differences and learn in unique ways. Occupational and physical therapist, Suzanne Cresswell, helps us understand children and why some of them just can’t stop moving. www.coolcatteacher.com/e244 Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. Jennifer gives you a description in simple language, a screenshot of the tool in action and then a play button that takes you to a video about how the tool works. Learn more at coolcatteacher.com/guide

Jan 31, 2018 • 11min
Virtual Mentorship for Emerging Leaders (e243)
Emerging administrator leaders and administrators are participating in an emerging leadership virtual mentorship program created by Jodie Pierpoint and many volunteers. Learn about this program, how you can join in, and how you can become a better mentor. www.coolcatteacher.com/e243 Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. Jennifer gives you a description in simple language, a screenshot of the tool in action and then a play button that takes you to a video about how the tool works. Learn more at coolcatteacher.com/guide

Jan 30, 2018 • 11min
Effective Digital Citizenship Education (e242)
Digital citizenship education doesn’t work in a lecture format. Dr. Kristen Mattson, author of Digital Citizenship in Action talks about how they’ve integrated digital citizenship into all of their courses at her school and how you can too. www.coolcatteacher.com/e242 Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. Jennifer gives you a description in simple language, a screenshot of the tool in action and then a play button that takes you to a video about how the tool works. Learn more at coolcatteacher.com/guide