• 238: How Teacher Language Can Build a More Democratic Classroom

  • Nov 10 2024
  • Length: 50 mins
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238: How Teacher Language Can Build a More Democratic Classroom

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  • For many this week, the discomfort and pain of living side by side with people who see the world so differently from us has hit hard. But this is where we are right now, and we can either succumb to our current divide and let it get bigger, or keep trying to figure out how to close it. Though I didn't plan it this way, this week's podcast just happens to address one of the ways we might start to do that in our classrooms. I'm talking with Peter Johnston, author of Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learning, about the prompts and phrases teachers can use to equip students not to avoid or be afraid of differences, but to approach them as opportunities to learn.

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    Thanks to The Gilder Lehrman Institute and Listenwise for sponsoring this episode.

    For a full transcript of this episode, visit cultofpedagogy.com/democratic-classroom.

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