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00:01:18.719Well, hello, teachers, and welcome back to another episode of the Teaching Middle School ELA podcast.
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00:01:26.159In our last episode, Genevieve actually joined me and she and I talked about classroom job routines.
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00:01:33.439So how to set them up, how to make them actually work, and how they can help take some of those repetitive classroom tasks off of your plate.
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00:01:45.920But while we were going through all of the responses from our EV teachers in our EV teacher community, we kept coming across jobs that made us as an entire team stop and think to ourselves, wait, that's a classroom job?
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00:01:50.400So today, Pat, hello, Pat.
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00:01:51.280Welcome back.
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00:01:55.120Pat is our curriculum writer.
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00:02:00.480And Pat is here with me to share some of the more creative classroom jobs that our EV teachers shared with us.
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00:02:08.000And these aren't necessarily like those standard, you know, paper passer or the line leader or the homework board person or whatever it is.
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00:02:14.960These are like oddly specific jobs that teachers have created to solve some pretty real problems in their classrooms.
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00:02:21.120So, Pat, I know you had some favorites as you were looking through them.
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00:02:22.479Oh, yes.
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00:02:28.400Yeah, as soon as I read that post and the comments, I was like, we've got to get on the podcast and share some of these.
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00:02:30.639We can't keep these to ourselves.
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00:02:34.080Um, so some of the best teaching ideas do come from our community.
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00:02:46.479Um, because some of these jobs are so specific that you can immediately tell a teacher created them because they just thought, I do the same annoying little thing every single day.
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00:02:48.080Why am I still doing it?
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00:02:50.159And some of these are just completely genius.
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00:02:51.039Yes, I love it.
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00:02:52.639Okay, so let's let's hear them.
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00:02:58.800I want to know, let's start with which jobs made you immediately think, oh my God, why didn't I think of that?
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00:03:01.919So this one I love.
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00:03:03.759Uh let's start with Alexa.
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00:03:13.199So Jennifer, one of our EB teachers, shared an idea that she's seen where a teacher gave a student the job of Alexa, and Alexa's job is to repeat directions.
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00:03:14.719That's hilarious.
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00:03:15.680I love it.
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00:03:18.560Because every teacher knows this moment.
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00:03:25.439You finish explaining exactly what students need to do, and then three seconds later, a kid asks, Wait, what are we doing?
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00:03:26.159Nope.
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00:03:27.520Ask Alexa.
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00:03:31.360That's funny, but it's also really freaking smart.
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00:03:32.319Yeah, it is.
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00:03:38.159Uh, because underneath the joke, you're also teaching your students that the teacher doesn't always have to be their only source of information.
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00:03:45.120So, like you can ask a classmate, you can look at the directions, you can look at the board, or apparently you can just ask Alexa.
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00:03:48.560Hey, Alexa, what did Miss Mitchell say?
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00:03:50.240Oh my gosh, I love it.
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00:03:59.120Yeah, and it's great for the student, maybe who's always asking for directions to be repeated, because if it's their job to do the repeating, they're gonna have to have to listen extra carefully.
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00:04:00.000For sure.
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00:04:01.599That one's so funny.
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00:04:02.319I love it.
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00:04:07.280Um, okay, so what about jobs that solve like a really specific teacher problem?
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00:04:08.960Because those might be some of my favorites.
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00:04:15.439The jobs where you can literally hear the teacher saying, like, I created this because I know myself as a teacher.
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00:04:18.959I know how I operate, and I needed this thing in my classroom.
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00:04:19.600Yes.
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00:04:23.759So Valerie wins for the job title Seeker of Lost Things.
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00:04:27.279She basically said, I know myself and I need this.
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00:04:32.160And also I could have used that in, I could have used that in my classroom for sure.
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00:04:39.759My, I don't know if you knew this, but my classroom was also, it was the room that the drama kids would use to get ready for plays, like behind the scenes.
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00:04:40.240Uh-huh.
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00:04:45.199So it was a huge room full of mirrors, and it was just, it was oddly shaped.
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00:04:48.160It was just all these hiding places, and I was always losing things.
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00:04:49.120I really could have used it.
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00:04:52.000Wait, your classroom was just filled with mirrors.
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00:04:55.120Yeah, because that was it was designed for for drama.
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00:04:58.000So kids go and put their makeup on in the corner and stuff.
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00:05:00.240Yeah, getting the girls away from those mirrors was hard.
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00:05:03.040I was gonna say that sounds like a huge distraction.
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00:05:06.240It was, but we also had our own bathroom, so it kind of made up for it.
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00:05:07.839That makes up for it for sure.
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00:05:09.439Um, that one's fantastic.
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00:05:11.360What about the one that Erica shared?
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00:05:13.680Yeah, so Erica said something similar.
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00:05:17.920She will literally tell a student, remember where I put the expo marker.
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00:05:24.639She has a student who is in charge of keeping their eye on the expo marker because she's going to put it down.
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00:05:31.839You know what's so funny about that is I always did that.
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00:05:34.079I would always, and it wasn't a job.
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00:05:38.079It was just like the one student who was like sitting next to me, I'd be like, I am putting this here.
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00:05:40.560Do not let me forget that this is where I put this.
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00:05:46.000But I love making it an actual job because I feel like every teacher needs one of those.
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00:05:57.279And if you give the job to a student who like gets off task really easily, it might help them pay a little bit more attention to you, to what you're doing, and just make them feel more involved in what's going on in your classroom.
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00:05:58.800Yes, for sure.
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00:06:04.160Um, what other little annoyances have teachers turned into jobs?
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00:06:11.680So I really love this one because this was an exact situation I was in when I was a teacher, and I wish I could go back in time and do this.
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00:06:13.839Um, so Rachel's is really smart.
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00:06:16.879Uh lunch and recess happen in the middle of her class period.
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00:06:23.839So she has a timekeeper and she says, lunch and re she said she said in her comment, uh, lunch and recess are in the middle of the period.
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00:06:33.279We got to put those skills to work, right?
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00:06:36.480So yeah, you're gonna stare at that clock anyway.
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00:06:45.600Okay, so so far we've mostly been making teachers' lives easier, which I fully, fully support.
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00:06:50.800But were there any jobs that our teachers shared that gave students more ownership as well?
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00:06:54.879Yes, this is another one that I really wish I had done with my students.
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00:06:59.360Um, Rhonda has a greeter, and this is the student who sits closest to the door.
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00:07:00.959Um, this one's probably my favorite.
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00:07:05.680So the student closest to the door is responsible for greeting an adult who enters the classroom.
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00:07:08.079They'll say something like, Welcome to seventh grade.
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00:07:11.519I love that.
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00:07:15.680Walking into a classroom and like that, a kid says that to you, that would be so amazing.
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00:07:20.240Well, it's so great too, because your principal always comes in and is like, Well, what are you guys learning?
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00:07:22.720And then you get the kid in the back who's like, I don't know.
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00:07:25.279Yes, now we have don't have that kid.
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00:07:28.319Right, exactly.
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00:07:36.240It reflects so powerfully on your teaching when the administrator walks in and without like any prompting, just is told what you're doing.
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00:07:38.639I love that.
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00:07:54.639Um, okay, so that one's, I honestly think my favorite one of all of them because I just know how important it was for at least for me in my classroom, I had to have like not just the standards on the board, but I also had to have, you know, the students will be able to statement.
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00:07:57.360I also had to have the end thing and all of that type of stuff.
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00:07:59.120So that one's pretty impressive.
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00:08:09.360And I think plus if you're distracted for a moment, like helping another student or you've got something else going on in your classroom, it's like an alarm to tell you, like, oh, an adult has entered the room, right?
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00:08:12.000Like you hear your student saying that, you're like, oh, my principal's here.
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00:08:13.360I gotta pay attention.
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00:08:15.519Yes, I have been jump scared before.
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00:08:25.360I have, we had a really good relationship, but I had an associate, an associate principal or an assistant principal who was very tall and very quiet.
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00:08:28.480And he would just, I swear, just magically appear in my room.
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00:08:32.240Like I would be helping a student and I would look up and he was just standing there.
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00:08:34.799So if I had a student who said, Hello, Mr.
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00:08:37.279K, that would be so helpful for me.
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00:08:39.679Oh my gosh, I love it.
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00:08:45.679What about those constant little classroom tasks that teachers are always having to keep track of?
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00:08:52.000Yeah, so calendar, uh calendar jobs came up more than once.
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00:08:56.080Um, Kimberly has the changer who changes the date on her wooden calendar.
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00:09:02.799And Nicole also has a student in first period who changes the date each day, and then that student keeps the job for the week and then it rotates.
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00:09:03.519Love it.
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00:09:08.799Again, something that takes almost like no time, but it's one last thing for you as the teacher to remember.
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00:09:09.279Yes.
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00:09:11.919I swear I could keep the same date on the board for three days in a row.
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00:09:12.399For sure.
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00:09:14.080Hey, Mrs.
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00:09:18.080Yes, absolutely.
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00:09:25.759And also, too, like if you were responsible or you had to have um, like I did, like I just talked about the standards on the board, or students will be able to.
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00:09:35.440I just always had my like weekly plans on my desk that had all of that because I had to submit it to my principal every single Friday before the next week.
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00:09:39.840But my student who was responsible for changing that on the board knew where that was.
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00:09:48.559So it's just like reducing the cognitive load that you don't even have to think about that.
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00:09:53.840Yes, because teachers have so much going on in their brains at one time.
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00:09:56.000Like it is absolutely amazing.
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00:10:00.720And so to have a kid just take off even just a little bit of those that load for you is incredible.
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00:10:01.120Yeah.
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00:10:05.440So I would think about like for those individual jobs for our students, you know, what do you do?
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00:10:09.840That's a repetitive task every single day or every single week, give it to somebody else.
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00:10:11.759Have your kids do it for sure.
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00:10:21.519Um, did any of our teachers, so we talked about individual jobs, but did any of our teachers turn classroom jobs into like a whole system for their classroom?
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00:10:23.840Yes, this is another one of my favorites.
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00:10:28.559Um, because I used to have my my students often would sit at tables, also like Melissa.
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00:10:36.399So Melissa calls her table squads, and each squad has four to six students, and one student at each table becomes the squad leader for the week.
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00:10:40.399So if the class gets loud, Melissa can say, squad leaders, control your squad.
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00:10:46.000And those students help quiet their groups, they make sure everyone is working, collect assignments, and they lead the activities.
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00:10:46.720I love it.
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00:10:52.639So instead of managing like every individual student, she has that extra layer of leadership just built into her classroom.
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00:10:54.559Yes, I thought that was super smart.
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00:10:59.600And because she's rotating out the leaders, she's also like everyone is getting a chance to be a leader in the group.
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00:11:05.039So you're not just like they're not just helping you, you're also helping them to strengthen those leadership skills.
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00:11:05.519For sure.
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00:11:06.480Yeah, I love that.
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00:11:07.039Yes.
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00:11:09.200Oh, and then we have Frau Line.
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00:11:12.639So Frau Line is one of our favorites.
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00:11:19.440And Frau Line has all kinds of jobs like communications director, courier, but my personal favorite is the harbor master.
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00:11:21.279Wait, what is a harbor master?
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00:11:22.799What does that what does that do?
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00:11:24.320We don't know.
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00:11:27.279She just commented that she had it.
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00:11:30.320So this somehow makes me love it even more.
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00:11:32.080What does a harbor master do?
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00:11:33.519Like what could that possibly be?
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00:11:38.799But what I love is that you you absolutely know that Frau Line is listening right now.
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00:11:42.320And like I bet within with hi, Frau Line.
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00:11:46.320Within a half hour of this airing, she's going to she's gonna post.
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00:11:52.000We'll have to come back on another episode and share with our listeners what a harbor master does.
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00:11:53.679What could that possibly be?
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00:11:54.320I don't know.
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00:11:58.240So they must give some kind of like direction or help.
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00:11:58.960I don't know.
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00:12:01.279So faston to me.
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00:12:03.039Well, I'll be curious to see what she says.
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00:12:04.720Yeah, and this part I love too.
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00:12:09.759She also said that they get paid for their jobs, but she charges them rent once a month.
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00:12:10.399Yes.
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00:12:13.679I did that with my fifth graders actually when I had them.
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00:12:15.919I charged them rent for their desks.
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00:12:20.320I charged them rent if they had to borrow a pencil from me, like anything.
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00:12:22.240It was a whole classroom economy.
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00:12:26.960And that was the only year that I used it because it was a lot for me to remember.
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00:12:35.039But you know, the little, the younger grades kind of need that stuff, which is why I liked high school and middle school significantly more than my wife.
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00:12:36.000Right.
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00:12:39.200Wait, so is there actual there's no actual money?
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00:12:42.399She has like cash bucks or something like that, right?
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00:12:45.039Knowing, yeah, knowing Fraulein, it's all above board.
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00:12:46.720I'm sure there's no actual money changing.
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00:12:50.879Oh my gosh, I want to know more about that.
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00:12:51.600I love it.
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00:12:57.200Well, Fraulein, if you're listening, come let us know in the EV teacher community and tell us what the heck a harbor master is.
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00:13:02.159Um, was there anything that you came across that felt even bigger than like a typical classroom job?
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00:13:07.919Because I know Maria's idea was a little bit different than some of the other um ideas that were shared on that post.
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00:13:08.480Yeah.
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00:13:10.559So Maria's got a unique situation.
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00:13:12.559Um, she calls her stewardship.
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00:13:16.159And she's in a fifth grade self-contained classroom without a custodian.
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00:13:19.759So she's actually built steward stewardship into the schedule.
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00:13:25.200So she has rotating daily, weekly, and monthly responsibilities for cleaning and organizing the classroom.
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00:13:26.000I love that.
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00:13:28.639And I love the word stewardship there too.
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00:13:33.679Like to utilize that terminology to represent what they're doing in the classroom.
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00:13:34.879I think that's pretty neat.
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00:13:41.679Uh yeah, it kind of changes the idea from you're cleaning the classroom to we're responsible for taking care of the space.
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00:13:45.039Um, and I think that's really the bigger idea behind a lot of these jobs.
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00:13:50.559They're making the teacher's life easier, but they're also sending the message that students can help make the classroom function too.
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00:13:52.240Yeah, like it's a shared space.
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00:13:53.919It's all of us working together.
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00:13:54.240Yeah.
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00:13:55.360I love that.
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00:13:58.480Um, so hopefully listeners got some great ideas today.
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00:14:03.679What can they take away from these ideas, even if they aren't going to use these jobs specifically?
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00:14:10.639Yeah, I'd be inspired to ask myself, what's one tiny classroom task that I can stop doing myself?
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00:14:15.679Um, because like we said before, you have so much on your mental plate already.
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00:14:19.840Like, what can you offload to someone else in a way that's actually going to help them also?
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00:14:31.200Um, I don't think the takeaway from the episode is that everyone needs an Alexa or a Harbor Master or a Seeker of Lost Things or six squad leaders, um, certainly not an entire classroom economy by Monday morning.
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00:14:32.879Yeah, please don't do that.
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00:14:36.240Um, so start with your actual classroom.
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00:14:38.639Um, what interrupts you over and over?
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00:14:41.039What do students constantly ask you for?
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00:14:42.720What do you always forget?
00:14:42.879 -->
00:14:46.480What are you doing every single day that a student could reasonably handle?
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00:14:49.840And also, and this is the most important, what annoys you?
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00:14:55.279Because some of the best ideas our teachers shared solves incredibly tiny, incredibly specific problems.
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00:14:55.679Yeah.
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00:14:59.519And that's probably why they work so well, because the teacher's like, I am done doing this.
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00:15:01.200I'm giving this to somebody else.
00:15:01.519 -->
00:15:01.919Exactly.
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00:15:02.240Yeah.
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00:15:04.720You don't need the classroom jobs that another teacher has.
00:15:04.879 -->
00:15:07.919You need the jobs that solve the little problems in your classroom.
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00:15:16.320So what I would say is just find one thing you're tired of doing, turn it into a job and give it to a student, and then give yourself bonus points if you have a fun title for it.
00:15:16.480 -->
00:15:19.120Yeah, like Harbor Master and come tell us what that means.
00:15:21.600 -->
00:15:22.960And also, this is important.
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00:15:26.320Don't feel guilty about giving students a role in the classroom.
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00:15:30.240Um, it builds community and it helps them to stay involved and focus.
00:15:30.399 -->
00:15:33.519And that's, I mean, that's a huge part of what you need to be doing as a teacher.
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00:15:37.840So that giving a student a job, a student a job is part of your job.
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00:15:38.960Yeah, absolutely.
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00:15:40.159I completely agree.
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00:15:48.720And I think the first place to start to, like with Pat's um, you know, question that she gave you is what's one tiny classroom task I can stop doing myself?
00:15:48.799 -->
00:15:50.559Or like what is it that annoys you?
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00:15:52.879And just like make a list and write it down.
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00:15:59.519And what are the things that you find yourself repetitively doing that you could easily have one of your students do?
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00:16:00.960And you just rotate those jobs.
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00:16:02.960I, you know, you can rotate them monthly.
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00:16:05.679You can give one student that job for the entire year.
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00:16:06.080Yep.
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00:16:12.639And what I love about this too, and I'm not sure if I had shared this on a past podcast episode or if it was one in one of our trainings or something like that.
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00:16:15.360Oh my God, I just remembered the student's name.
00:16:15.600 -->
00:16:23.679I have not been able to remember her name for like 15 years when I tell this story, and it just came to me, but I'm not gonna share it because obviously I want to keep her privacy.
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00:16:25.200I'll tell you afterwards, Pat.
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00:16:28.799Um, and she was really mean to me.
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00:16:38.639So I was 22 years old when I first started teaching, I was teaching juniors in high school, and she was just mean and just, you know, didn't like me, didn't want to be in my classroom.
00:16:38.799 -->
00:16:44.639And one of the best pieces of advice that I got from one of my mentor teachers was to give her an important job.
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00:16:44.960Yeah.
00:16:45.120 -->
00:16:53.519And so I made her responsible for helping me pass everything out, collect everyone's assignments, take things to the front office for me.
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00:16:55.519She was like my paper person essentially.
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00:17:01.840And I will tell you right now, within a week, her whole attitude and behavior toward me changed.
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00:17:16.000And like I just think about our students who maybe just need something different from us in our classrooms to be able to instill in them this idea that I trust you with this responsibility, that I think that you can handle this responsibility.
00:17:16.160 -->
00:17:19.200Like that goes a long way in our student self-concept.
00:17:19.359 -->
00:17:25.119So, as much to Pat's point as it is helping you, it's actually really helping our students.
00:17:25.279 -->
00:17:29.200So it's so much more than just making your life and cognitive load lighter.
00:17:29.359 -->
00:17:35.680It is about helping our students start to instill that self-confidence that, like, oh, like I'm actually useful here.
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00:17:38.160Like, I'm actually have a purpose and I'm valued.
00:17:38.400 -->
00:17:47.680So a huge thank you to all of our EV teachers inside of our E B teacher community, which really is like our professional learning community who shared all of these ideas with us.
00:17:48.319 -->
00:17:53.759Yeah, I just our E B teacher community is such a special, a special place where we get all these great ideas.
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00:18:00.000Um, so I'm just really grateful for all of our teachers every day who share stuff like this and just, I don't know, they just help each other out so much.
00:18:00.079 -->
00:18:00.880It's fun to watch.
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00:18:02.079Yes, it really is.
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00:18:02.720I love it.
00:18:02.880 -->
00:18:09.359So I hope that you guys enjoyed these last two episodes, all about classroom jobs that came from our EB teachers ideas.
00:18:09.599 -->
00:18:13.359Next week, Pat is actually joining me for the next couple of episodes.
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00:18:18.400We are looking into some um hidden gems of EB academics.
00:18:18.480 -->
00:18:21.279So whether or not you're a member of our membership, it doesn't matter.
00:18:21.359 -->
00:18:23.839These episodes are still gonna be really helpful for you.
00:18:24.000 -->
00:18:26.160They're great ideas to use in your classroom.
00:18:26.319 -->
00:18:36.400But if you are an EB teacher, these are gonna be some great games that you probably didn't know that you had access to because they're like hidden inside of our resources.
00:18:36.480 -->
00:18:41.440So, Pat, before we go and say goodbye, can you kind of share where this idea came from for you?
00:18:41.519 -->
00:18:47.039I know we're gonna talk about it on the next episode too, but as we wrap things right now, I'd love for you to share.
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00:18:47.680Yeah.
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00:18:56.319So we recently um, and actually the ones that we share on the next episode will be for uh all of our, all of our teachers have access to it, all of our members.
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00:19:02.720This one is for the um, I think it's the pro tier members, but the it's the black, it's what is it called?
00:19:02.880 -->
00:19:04.480The blackout and the dome.
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00:19:09.039Yeah, blackout at the dome community builder that we released, and teachers are already loving it.
00:19:09.119 -->
00:19:11.119Um, but not every teacher is going to use it.
00:19:11.279 -->
00:19:29.440And when we posted that in the Facebook group, I made the comment, you know, even if you don't use this activity, go inside of it because we have these really awesome student presentation posters that go through like the expectations of, you know, how to like how to speak well during a presentation, how to organize your presentation.
00:19:29.519 -->
00:19:35.279Like it's really helpful information, plus it's classroom decor and it works with any presentation that students do.
00:19:35.359 -->
00:19:38.480It doesn't have to be this blackout activity.
00:19:38.640 -->
00:19:45.279Um, and that just kind of made me think there are so many of those little gems hidden inside bigger units.
00:19:45.440 -->
00:19:49.359Like there's really cool stuff in the Lightning Thief unit that we recently released.
00:19:49.440 -->
00:19:55.680And if you're not teaching the Lightning Thief, you might not know about this card game that you can still use, even if you don't teach that novel.
00:19:55.839 -->
00:19:57.920We have so many of those hiding inside.
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00:20:02.160So we're gonna kind of bring those to light so that you can see what you've had all along.
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00:20:03.279Yes, I love it.
00:20:03.359 -->
00:20:05.200I'm so excited for those episodes.
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00:20:11.599Um, well, thank you, Pat, for joining me on today's podcast and sharing these ideas from our A B teachers with us.
00:20:11.680 -->
00:20:16.640And I'm super excited to spend the rest of I guess it's September with you.
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00:20:17.920Summer's over.
00:20:18.079 -->
00:20:18.960I cannot believe that.
00:20:19.039 -->
00:20:19.599That's crazy.
00:20:19.839 -->
00:20:20.559Almost.
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00:20:22.400Not until the equinox, right?
00:20:22.480 -->
00:20:23.279But that's true.
00:20:23.440 -->
00:20:23.759Very true.
00:20:24.240 -->
00:20:24.400Yeah.
00:20:24.559 -->
00:20:25.200All right, you guys.
00:20:25.279 -->
00:20:28.960Well, thank you so much for joining us, and we will see you next week on the podcast.
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00:20:31.200Have a wonderful rest of your day, everybody.
