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Creating Good Humans by Teaching Students & Training Teachers with Matt Neil
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Production team:
Host : Maria Xenidou
Producer: Julie-Roxane Krikorian
Introduction Voice: David Bourne
Contact us:
impactlearningpodcast@gmail.com
Music credits:
Like Lee performed by The Mini Vandals
Transition sounds: Swamp Walks performed by Jingle Punks
Where to find more about Matt Neil:
Matt Neil on LinkedIn
Matt Neil on Twitter
Matt’s’s Podcast: The Good Humans Show
Mentioned in this episode:
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Google - Future of the Classroom
Article: Pennsylvania schools prepare students for future success with the 4Cs and Google for Education
Article: To help expand learning for everyone
Article: Distance learning for Educators
Article: Check in on emotional well-being during distance learning
Listen to this episode and explore:
Childhood: reading together as a family and Matt's early exposure to different opinions (3:29)
Getting his Bachelor Degree in Social Studies Education and his Masters in Online Teaching and Education (7:16)
Matt’s experience and attraction to online teaching (8:06)
The importance of mentoring and being mentored (10:28)
Showing up for his students day after day and never doubting them (14:33)
Building relationships and creating a culture to better foster learning in the classroom (16:53)
The 5 essential skills students need to build in a classroom (20:15)
What a Civics and Government class entails (23:10)
The skills students acquire in a Civics and Government class (24:21)
The Leadership Seminar course (25:22)
The Indiana High School Ambassadors program (26:29)
A new kind of assignment: having students write blogs for their history class (30:49)
Piloting and launching Google Apps for Education and teaching his fellow teachers how to leverage technology for online learning (34:54)
The stress teachers experienced as they moved their classes online during COVID-19 (42:38)
How students responded to online lessons and distance learning (44:05)
How the teachers can ensure their students are doing okay during COVID-19 (45:28)
Maria’s thoughts on falling behind and why she doesn’t believe in it (47:03)
How teachers can know that their students may be struggling and need extra support (48:01)
Matt’s reflections and takeaways from teaching online during COVID-19 (51:02)
The one thing Matt wants to leave his mark on during his lifetime (55:15)
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