Transforming Teachers, Transforming Education
Teachers are those who are, through their daily work, transforming the future of the world. This podcast talks to the hearts, minds , and souls of those teachers, helping them improve their skills, their abilities, and their personal selves.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 12 minutes
- Episodes
- 13
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2019
The Power of Play
Play is a key ingredient to human happiness – your happiness and the happiness of your students.
But the importance of play goes far beyond happiness. The American Association of Pediatrics affirmed…
Metacognition and the Whole Child
In this week’s episode, Rick takes the Transforming Teachers crowd down the fascinating path of METACOGNITION. We’ll be looking at the way students think about thinking.
We’ll look at the benefits o…
Formal & Informal Learning
One of the best ways to inspire and cement learning is understanding two related concepts. Now despite that their names imply that they’re polar opposites, FORMAL LEARNING and INFORMAL LEARNING work…
Guiding Through Choices
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GUIDING THROUGH CHOICE
PART ONE – The Power of Choice
So, as children develop from birth through childhood and adolescence, one of the most important skills that is developed along t…
Developing Leadership and Student Voice
DEVELOPING LEADERSHIP SKILLS
Now, whether you’re a classroom teacher, an afterschool professional, sports coach, even a preschool teacher, I’m here to tell you that you most definite…
ERE - Relationships
This video looks at the second part of the ERE … RELATIONSHIPS. This is the piece that is most often ignored by our traditional training and education. In addressing RELATIONSHIPS, R…
Three Takeaways from High Performance Academy
Three Takeaways from Brendon Burchard’s “High Performance Academy”
I attended a four-day event in Phoenix, Arizona called HIGH PERFORMANCE ACADEMY. I want to share with you, three of the biggest ta…
ERE - Environment
Rick discusses the first piece of the ERE framework, ENVIRONMENT. The idea is that everything we do as educators to shape our students’ outcomes can be categorized into one of these …
Behavior Guidance - Affinity
Episode 3 talks about the absolute need for you to create affinity with the students that you work with. Children NEED to feel affinity from the adults that work with them. They nee…
Behavior Guidance - Role Model Mentality
Episode 4 discusses a concept introduced by Robert Fulghum, "Don't worry that the kids won't listen to you ... worry that they are always watching you" and developing a role model me…
Behavior Guidance - Influence
Episode 5 is about the power of influence and ninja-level techniques for experienced teachers.
Behavior guidance is a topic that I am frequently asked to teach and speak about. Her…
Behavior Guidance - Pre-Planning
Episode 2 takes on Covey's maxim to "begin with the end in mind". Do you know what outcome you want to see in your students' behavior?
Behavior guidance is a topic that I am frequen…
Behavior Guidance - Guidance vs Management
Episode 1 delves into the distinction between Behavior Guidance and Behavior Management - and why the linguistic distinction is so important.
Behavior guidance is a topic that I am f…