The Teacher's Sphere
The Teacher's Sphere
Podcast Description
The Teacher’s Sphere podcast amplifies the voices of practicing educators who share how they successfully create spaces for civil discourse and viewpoint diversity in today’s schools. Episodes feature educators’ personal stories, practical applications, and thoughtful reflections on fostering respectful dialogue across differences. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Content Themes
This podcast focuses on civil discourse practices, educational leadership, and viewpoint diversity, featuring episode topics like the development of leadership toolkits for fostering respectful dialogue and personal narratives from teachers about implementing these practices in their classrooms. Specific examples include discussions on educational initiatives and research findings related to teaching about race and gender.
The Teacher’s Sphere podcast amplifies the voices of practicing educators who share how they successfully create spaces for civil discourse and viewpoint diversity in today’s schools. Episodes feature educators’ personal stories, practical applications, and thoughtful reflections on fostering respectful dialogue across differences.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Summary: This episode explores the power that comes from teaching economics as a reflection of human action and the ways that this lens can help teachers empower their students to understand that their choices and actions matter. During the conversation, Kobi and Colman also discuss what it takes to have honest, complex conversations about economics and why content knowledge matters just as much as pedagogy.
Timestamps:
4:44 — The Sphere Summit experience and how it reinvigorated teacher passion
8:25 — Connecting students to the bigger picture through economics as human action
12:25 — Challenging conversations around economic systems and trade-offs
16:31 — Pedagogical strategies including news culture, and real-time charting
22:18 — Teaching predictions through the concept of consumer anticipation
28:18 — The content knowledge gap facing economics educators
32:57 — What all educators should know about the value of economics
Resources Mentioned:
- “Spotlighting the World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell”
- The World Factbook Archives (from UPenn)
- Financial Times
- The Wall Street Journal
- Bloomberg
- The Journal of Economic Education
- Sphere Education Initiatives
- Sphere’s Real World Economics Lessons
- Sphere’s Economics in One Virus Lessons
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