How to get fired up about teaching (even if the system has crushed your spirit) w/ Chase Orton
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Vanessa recently took one step closer to her dream of hosting a Netflix show, recording the first ever live Math Therapy interview!
For her session last week at Leander ISD's annual Math Joy Conference in Texas, she interviewed self-proclaimed "chaos-driven non-compliant educator" Chase Orton - and you can now hear their extremely unfiltered conversation in front of a room full of teachers whose gasps are VERY audible throughout!
Chase and Vanessa share a fearlessness in calling out the education as it is, and in this convo they cover hot topics like:
- how teachers can stay motivated in a broken system
- who standardized testing benefits (hint: not students or teachers!)
- how to follow the rules while rebelling against the status quo
About Chase: (Website, YouTube)
As an accomplished facilitator of lesson study for K-12 math teachers, Chase Orton partners with districts who are interested in taking a teacher-centered, teacher-directed approach to professional development. Chase is also the author of The Imperfect and Unfinished Teacher of Mathematics.
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More Math Therapy:
- 0:00Intro
- 2:04Chase Orton: chaos-driven teaching disrupter
- 6:39Can ambiguity in teaching math be an asset?
- 14:41How teachers can stay motivated in a broken system
- 22:41If you can't move the mountain, move a stone
- 29:05"It's a great day in math class when my students ..."
- 33:39Who does standardized testing benefit?
- 42:34How do we stay motivated instead of cynical?
- 46:05Outro