HeyJaredAmidon Planet
Amidon Planet is all about learning how to teach better. Each episode, Joel Amidon, PhD, will explore ideas from books, interviews, movies, other podcasts, etc. and apply those ideas to teaching better. The ultimate goal being to lead people to love others through teaching.
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E150: Supporting the People Who Teach (w/ Adam Ramirez) (opens the original)
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In this episode, I talk with Adam Ramirez from Teacher Guard about the challenges educators are facing and what it means to genuinely support the people doing the work of teaching. We explore Adam's work with Teacher Guard, what he's hearing from teachers and schools, and the ways we might rethink how we protect, support, and empower educators. Along the way, we consider the difference between simply asking teachers to be resilient and actually creating the conditions in which teachers can thriv
E149: What Stephen King Can Teach Us About the Craft of Teaching (w/ David Coffey) (opens the original)
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In this episode, I talk with Dr. David Coffey, from Grand Valley State University, about Stephen King's On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft and what a book about becoming a better writer can teach us about becoming better teachers. While King is writing about the work of a writer, many of the lessons in On Writing invite us to think differently about teaching as something we continually develop rather than something we simply master. What does it mean to approach teaching as a craft? How do we lea
E148: Can a Video Game Change How We Think About Math? (w/ Charlie Van Norman and Devin Santiago) (opens the original)
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In this episode, I talk with Charlie Van Norman and Devin Santiago, from MathBreakers , a video game designed around curiosity, creativity, and mathematical thinking. Rather than asking players to memorize procedures or answer endless practice questions, MathBreakers invites them to experiment, solve problems, and discover how mathematics shapes the world around them. Together, we discuss what makes an educational game truly engaging, how thoughtful game design can foster reasoning and explorati
E147: Making the Invisible Visible: Teaching, Disability, and Neurodivergence (w/ Amanda Goodwin) (opens the original)
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What happens when some of the most significant parts of a person's teaching and learning experience remain unseen? In this episode, I talk with Dr. Amanda Goodwin about her dissertation, INVISIBLE: An Autoethnographic Study of Teaching and Learning with Physical Disabilities and Neurodivergence . Through the lens of her own lived experience, Amanda explores how invisible disabilities and neurodivergence shape teaching, learning, relationships, and professional life. We discuss why personal narra
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