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The Beautiful Struggle | Get Unstuck in Life

Life hits hard. We hit back. Life is raw, unfiltered. This is my attempt to peel back layers. Making the complicated into something better. Let's navigate challenges, find some clarity, and embrace the journey, together. I'm Fred, a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a teacher. Let's get unstuck!
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Apr 11, 2015

Spring Break!  It was such a long awaited and so very welcome time to take time off from teaching.  This year, Sharon and Fred had their breaks coincide perfectly. In years past, their respective schools had different weeks for Spring Break. 

This year, they took their young family to Hawaii. This is Fred's first time there and he shares his wide-eyed view of his first visit.  Let's just say, he wants to go again.  

Fred and Sharon share some tips traveling with young children and what to consider logistically.  One lesson, travel later when kids are older! Just kidding.  

They also share some learning tips when visiting Pearl Harbor and during the airplane ride and how you can use those times to spark teaching ideas.

Aloha!

Mar 26, 2015

In the 14th episode, we talk about "teaching on the fly."  This is something they don't teach you in credential school.  It isn't even on a job description! 

 

We'll explore what this is, the ways to recognize it and how to develop it in your classroom.  Its an extremely valuable skill for any teacher to use. Join us and check it out!

Mar 17, 2015

In the spirit of sharing our favorite productivity tools in Ep. 11 & 12, we thought you’d like to know what furniture and equipment we use in our classrooms and why.  Perhaps you need a classroom makeover or have been looking for easy solutions to make your teaching smoother? Well, we are here to help you out! We’ll go over each item and suggest alternative methods to achieve the same outcome as sometimes budget is a big reason why we have a hard time getting what we want.

Mar 10, 2015

This is part 2 of 2 where Sharon and Fred share their favorite productivity tools.  These tools in particular, are especially valuable for managing their own personal workflow.  Join us now and see if these can work for you too!

 

Have one or two tools that you like? Let us know! Please leave a review, rating and subscribe! Thanks!

Mar 4, 2015

In episode 11, This is part 1 of 2 where Sharon and Fred share their favorite productivity tools.  These tools in particular, are especially valuable for managing their own personal workflow.  Join us now and see if these can work for you too!

 

Have one or two tools that you like? Let us know! Please leave a review, rating and subscribe! Thanks!

Feb 22, 2015

Yup! We are back after a week haitus! Its so good to be back.  In this episode, we ask the question: Are teachers learners? You would assume that teachers are automatiically are learners.  But, we do share what can prevent us from learning.  This is the logical extension of our very popular TBP 006: Burnt Out on Teacher Burnout episode.

 

We share our insights on why we should be learners, the obstacles that can take away our passion on learning and finally we share our solutions on how to keep going.

 

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Feb 10, 2015

This is the Bits & Pieces episode, where we put a little bit of everything from the past week and roll it into one!


The new TV show, Fresh Off the Boat as it explores growing up as Asian Americans


Tech Timeout -  our  effort to raise awareness of digital distractions through encouraging students (and adults) to voluntarily abstain from certain devices for a 72 hour period on Feb. 12-14


Fred's school Tech Time Out participation and the TeachThought article

Dan Meyer’s Be Less Helpful. Student independence, student centered classroom. Watch Dan's TED Talk here: Math needs a makeover


Sharon's classroom shapes experiment, which was referenced to TBP 006: Burnt Out on Teacher Burnout and go w/teachable moments
; Student-centered learning


Feb 1, 2015

In this episode, Fred & Sharon share their favorite tips and some cool new ways to have a successful and efficient Parent-Teacher Conference.  

Jan 20, 2015

Have you ever felt burnt out? Of course you have! We bet you've even read quite a few tips and strategies on how to prevent and deal with teacher burn out.  Well, here is our take on teacher burnout and hear about The 6 Fingered Man! 

 

Join us and please subscribe, rate and leave an honest review so we can get better and be discovered by other awesome teachers! 

Dec 22, 2014

Today, we talk about what the Hour of Code is all about, why to participate in it.  We break down the 4C's of 21st Century learning and computational thinking. We then share what cool projects we've done to go beyond the Hour of Code in your the classroom. 

Dec 20, 2014

In this episode, we share our favorite strategies on how to engage with our  students and how to encourage responses from them.

Dec 20, 2014

Episode #2: Attention-Grabbers

  • Intro- What's going on in our lives/classrooms
    • Thanksgiving
    • bowling
  • Fun Fact: Overhead Projector
    • opening our new flexible maker space
  1. Tables, Chairs, stools, beach pillows
  2. Building materials (cardboard, masking tape, duct tape, scissors) for fast prototyping and
  3. Cain’s Arcade
  4. Friend and a colleague visiting to get ideas
  • Storm/flood discussion & research teachable moment, went outside
  • Attention Getters/Grabbers
  • Survey! Reminder! Announcement!
  • 1, 2 Eyes on Me!
  • Hands on top, now we stop
  • pack it up, pack it in (House of Pain’s Jump Around)
  • Waterfall in 3, 2, 1…. shh……
  • bump X5.. bump bump!
  • hocus… focus!
  • To infinity… and beyond!

    Description

Thank you all for joining us. Please leave a rating and comment for feedback. It’ll help us make our show better.  Please visit our site: teachingbites.com to subscribe; and visit and like our FB at facebook.com/teachingbites

 

Links:

30 Techniques to Quiet a Noisy Class

Pinterest Link

Buzzfeed’s 27 Attention Getters For Quieting a Noisy Class

Cain’s Arcade

Overhead projectors: From bowling to classroom

Overhead projectors: police ID work 

 

Music

"Presenterator" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

 

 

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Dec 20, 2014

 

This is our first episode of the Teaching Bites Podcast. We introduce ourselves and go over our combined 30+ years of teaching experience and innovation strategies with you.

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