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046 Culturally-Reponsive Case-Based Instruction

Kira Carbonneau

It is commonly agreed that practicum-based learning is essential for success in a variety of different careers. This is especially true for educators who already get great experience through this process. Yet, many preservice teachers feel unprepared to work with culturally- and linguistically-diverse students. Enter case-based instruction which assistant professor of educational psychology Kira Carbonneau says could give an authentic classroom-like experience to these preservice teachers.

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044 WSU ROAR

There’s a new program for students with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. It’s called WSU ROAR. The WSU stands for Washington State University. ROAR stands for Responsibility, Opportunity, Advocacy, and Respect. If those also sound like VALUES, you may be right! We talk to co-founder Brenda Barrio about how WSU ROAR gives a college experience to students who may not otherwise have the opportunity.

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045 Palouse Mental Health Resource Fair

Every year, as part of the sport management program capstone, students split into small groups and put together a fundraiser. This requires them to use all the knowledge they’ve acquired during their time in the program. This includes all event planning, from logistics to promotion. One group ran the Palouse Mental Health Resource Fair over Mom’s Weekend, and it hauled in quite a bit.

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043 Ti’tooqan Cuukweneewit

It’s been well publicized that there is a teacher shortage. Well there’s also a shortage of individuals from Native or Tribal communities who are state-certified teachers. Enter in Ti’Tooqan Cuukweneewit, a project through Washington State University’s College of Education, that helps those in Tribal communities to take life experience and their already acquired Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and add to it the requisites needed to become fully certified by the state. It’s an alternate path program, and with the help of two grants, renée holt and Francene Watson are working collaboratively with several groups, but in particular Tribal communities, to try and make a difference.

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042 Getting to Know You: Hannah Martian

Hannah Martian

Hannah Martian is a sophomore Sport Management major in the College of Education. She’s from Arlington, WA and has a desire to one day become a baseball play-by-play broadcaster. In the meantime, she has recently filed to run for ASWSU Senator and represent the College of Education.

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039 Learning how to learn (SIMIAN Lab)

Jonah Firestone

Quite simply, we can teach better, as a society, when we better know how students learn. A lot of research has been done through classroom observation. But getting down to learning from a neurocognitive perspective, can really help researchers better assess what works and what doesn’t.

Jonah Firestone, from WSU Tri-Cities, runs a lab, called… wait for it… The Simulation and Integrated Media for Instruction Assessment and Neurocognition Site. No joke… this is the name of it. As you can imagine, there’s an acronym: SIMIAN. Jonah tells us about SIMIAN, and, his love of sci fi.

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038 Evidence-based practice in SPED

We’ve all heard the phrase “best practice,” or, as is often used after research, “evidence-based practice.”

Not all current teachers know what that best practice may be because they are uninformed about the newest research, or professional development hasn’t been provided to them. That certainly holds true for special education.

We met up with Yun-Ru Hsiao from WSU Tri-Cities, and she goes over some of the latest evidence-based practices that exist in special education, specifically with students on the autism spectrum.

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037 Signaling in the multimedia classroom

David Alpizar

For stage actors, it’s not just about what is said, but how it’s said. And the body language that is used. The same can be said for teachers. Educational psychology doctoral student David Alpizar talks about something called “signaling,” which can be a variety of ways to emphasize thing for students; to draw their attention. Specifically, how signaling can be effective in a multimedia classroom, where a lot of stimuli wrestle for the attention of students.

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036 From Parapro to Teacher

Lindsay Lightner

During a teacher shortage, one place to look for teachers is the classroom itself. Washington state already has a lot of paraeducators… folks who are in the classroom day in and day out, and aren’t certified teachers for a variety of reasons.

Lindsay Lightner is at WSU Tri-Cities, and introduces us to its Alternate Route program, which helps these parapros become certified teachers.

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035 Increasing classroom situational interest

Nathaniel Hunsu

This might sound like a no-brainer, but something that captivates a students’ attention, will help them to then better engage in the lesson, activity, discussion, or what have you.

Personal interest is something that is more long-term… more innate… it’s value-based.

Situtational interest is something that teachers often have incredible ability to control, and it’s the ability to gain the attention and engage the students.

At least that’s the really basic way to describe it.

We caught up with Nathaniel Hunsu at this year’s Academic Showcase at Washington State University. Nathaniel since has earned his Ph.D. and has secured a tenure-track faculty position at the University of Georgia. He’ll teach engineering education.

But for this podcast, he’ll talk about increasing or fostering more situational interest in an educational engineering classroom.

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