Heinemann Podcasts for Educators
Heinemann Podcasts feature insights and commentary from some of the most popular authors in K-12 education. Each Podcast provides practical teaching information and helpful advice about a specific topic in education. Tune in to Heinemann Podcasts to improve your teaching ability, build closer connections with your students, and better understand the changing landscape of today's educational world.
- Update frequency
- every 18 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 20
- Years Active
- 2009 - 2010
A Workshop Approach to Teaching Reading and Writing
Lucy Calkins, senior author of the Units of Study for Reading/Writing explains how the workshop model of teaching reading and writing differs from traditional and basal approaches. Listen as Lucy pro…
00:03:47 |
Sun 07 Nov 2010
Making Word Learning Fun for All Students
This introductory chapter from Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey's latest book on student vocabulary instruction and development, Learning Words Inside and Out: Grades 1-6, defines a framework for improv…
00:09:38 |
Mon 18 Oct 2010
Overview of Units of Study for Teaching Reading
Lucy Calkins, founding director of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University, gives an overview of the Units of Study for Teaching Reading program, which provides effect…
00:11:38 |
Wed 25 Aug 2010
Architecture of a Reading Workshop Lesson
An overview of the different types of minilessons and essential elements of elementary reading lessons using the reading workshop model developed by Lucy Calkins for the Units of Study for Teaching R…
00:19:37 |
Mon 16 Aug 2010
Vocabulary Instruction to Boost Student Achievement
Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey share tips and principles of vocabulary instruction from their latest book on providing effective vocabulary instruction to boost student performance in all subjects for…
00:09:38 |
Wed 11 Aug 2010
Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) for Response to Intervention (RtI)
Literacy consultant Joyce Gordon interviews guided reading intervention experts and educational authors Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell, and RtI expert Mary Howard to discuss how the Leveled Literac…
00:58:53 |
Mon 02 Aug 2010
Transcending Paper-Based Student Assessment
Harvey "Smokey" Daniels interviews Nancy Steineke, author of "Assessment Live! 10 Real-Time Ways for Kids to Show What They Know--and Meet the Standards" about how her book was developed to help educ…
00:14:35 |
Wed 28 Jul 2010
Designing K-12 Curriculum Around Big Questions
Jim Burke shares how, by organizing teaching around big questions, he's able to create curricular cohesion and avoid fragmentation by folding together skills, core content, and standards in a meaning…
00:04:06 |
Mon 26 Jul 2010
Balancing Workshops with Basal Reading Programs
Lucy Calkins, author of the Units of Study reading workshop model, explains how to strike a balance between the reading/writing workshop approach and basal reading programs that include sustained sil…
00:05:30 |
Wed 21 Jul 2010
Engaging and Motivating Digital Learners
Jim Burke shares how a question-driven classroom engages adolescents of the digital age inside school by tapping into the same kinds of self-motivated explorations that they conduct via digital media…
00:05:17 |
Tue 20 Jul 2010
Engaging and Motivating Clock-Watching Students
Clock Watchers authors Stevi Quate and John McDermott find out just how dramatic an effect the Six Cs of motivation and engagement can have in content-area classrooms when they interview two subject-…
00:21:19 |
Fri 29 Jan 2010
Avoiding Plagiarism: Conversations About Effective Prevention, Detection, and Response for the Cut-and-Paste Generation
"Plagiarism" author Barry Gilmore answers questions from Carol Jago (Come to Class) about his experiences in confronting academic dishonesty and how those experiences led him to more effective ways o…
00:26:34 |
Thu 10 Dec 2009
Getting the Teaching Life You Want
Steve Zemelman and Harry Ross (authors of 13 Steps to Teacher Empowerment) interview two teachers who got the teaching life they wanted with help from the 13 Steps.
00:31:42 |
Mon 23 Nov 2009
Teaching Voice in Student Writing
Tom Romano, author of Crafting Authentic Voice and Zigzag, and Penny Kittle, author of the NCTE award-winning Write Beside Them, discuss the important place of voice in student writing. Learn more ab…
00:32:47 |
Mon 23 Nov 2009
Inquiry Circles in Action
Harvey "Smokey" Daniels interviews two master teachers from The Burley School in Chicago (Debbie King and Michele Timble) who use Inquiry Circles in their teaching.
00:27:15 |
Mon 12 Oct 2009
Principles for Success with Response to Intervention (RTI)
Mary Howard, author of RTI from All Sides, talks with Heinemann consultant Judy Wallis about RTI and what it means for teaching. She shares 7 keys to success and emphasizes the importance of high-qua…
00:47:47 |
Tue 22 Sep 2009
The Writing Process: Starting a Book
Kylene Beers and Robert Probst talk with author Chris Crutcher about how he begins writing a book.
00:04:31 |
Mon 24 Aug 2009
An Introduction to Writing Circles
Smokey Daniels (Literature Circles and Mini-lessons for Literature Circles) talks with Jim Vopat about what Writing Circles are, and why they represent a compelling, practical new approach to approac…
00:30:23 |
Mon 17 Aug 2009
Code-Switching in Academic Writing
David West Brown (In Other Words) and Rebecca Wheeler (Code-Switching) clarify what code-switching is with illustrations from literature and student work. Then they discuss ways of teaching writing a…
00:35:39 |
Mon 29 Jun 2009
Core Principles in the Middle of Great Teaching
Tom Newkirk, author of "Holding on To Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones", talks with Nancie Atwell, author of "In the Middle", about the core principles in their teaching, the obstacles that work agai…
00:35:29 |
Mon 22 Jun 2009
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are the property of Heinemann Podcasts. This content is not affiliated with or endorsed by eachpod.com.