Ep 227: How to Build Lessons Students Actually Care About
New Teacher Talk takes on a worry almost every new teacher voices: the feeling that you have to choose between following the pacing guide and teaching a lesson students actually care about. Hosts Dr. Beth Wilkins and Dr. Anna Quinzio-Zafran make the case that this is a false dichotomy, and they offer small, low-effort moves that work inside your curriculum rather than against it.
The hosts start by naming the guilt behind the phrase boring but necessary, then push back on it. As Dr. Anna puts it, the curriculum tells you what to teach, but it rarely dictates how to make students care. The…
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