Upper Elementary Simplified
Are you an upper elementary teacher in need of new ideas, strategies, and inspiration to provide engagement for your students? Upper Elementary Simplified is a podcast for busy teachers to listen to on the car ride to and from school, during lunch or planning, or by the pool during the summer to learn new ways to engage students in meaningful learning. Danna Rodebush from Teacher Tech Studio is a former 5th grade classroom teacher who now shares teaching resources, math lessons, and classroom inspiration to support upper elementary teachers around the world. Visit teachertechstudio.com to learn more.
Episodes
Welcome to episode 59 of the Upper Elementary Simplified podcast. In this episode, host Danna Rodebush chats with Marianna Monheim all about teaching revising and editing explicitly.
Were you the kid who loved to write, and was a self-proclaimed author by the age of 10? Or were you the kid who struggled to put pen to paper and organize your thoughts as they came out of your head? Unfortunately a lot of students are discouraged by ...
Welcome to episode 58 of the Upper Elementary Simplified podcast.
In this episode, host Danna Rodebush celebrated teachers in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week.
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Welcome to episode 57 of the Upper Elementary Simplified podcast.
In this episode, host Danna Rodebush shares 15 tips for packing up your classroom for the summer.
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Here we are at the end of April, testing is over & the weather is getting warmer, which means students are getting excited about summer. Today host Danna Rodebush expands on last week's topic of discussion on end of year activity ideas.
In this episode you will hear from 9 different experienced teachers about their favorite end of year activity ideas.
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Welcome to episode 55 of the Upper Elementary Simplified podcast. In this episode, host Danna Rodebush chats with Christine DeArmitt, who discusses bringing fun back into the classroom and gives many great activity ideas to use in the upper elementary classroom.
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Are you in a battle with your math curriculum? I’ve been there…you may be looking at the piles of math books that your district provided to you or you were told were the best of the best…and you’re thinking to yourself something along the lines of:
How am I ever going to get my students to enjoy math? Or how can I possibly plan engaging whole group and small group lessons with the way this curriculum is organized? Or how am I going...
Welcome to episode 53 of the Upper Elementary Simplified podcast. In this episode, host Danna Rodebush chats with Annamarie Krejci all about math test prep in the upper elementary classroom.
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Welcome to episode 52 of the Upper Elementary Simplified podcast. In this episode, host Danna Rodebush chats with Ciera Harris all about how reading comprehension affects math instruction in the upper elementary classroom.
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Welcome to episode 51 of the Upper Elementary Simplified podcast. In this episode, host Danna Rodebush chats with Jennifer Jochen all about student choice & math workshop in the upper elementary classroom.
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Welcome to episode 50 of the Upper Elementary Simplified podcast. In this episode, host Danna Rodebush chats with Enrica Minetti all about teaching fraction concepts in the upper elementary classroom.
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Welcome to episode 49 of the Upper Elementary Simplified podcast. In this episode, host Danna Rodebush chats with Rachelle McCracken all about math mindset in the upper elementary classroom.
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Welcome to episode 48 of the Upper Elementary Simplified podcast. In this episode, host Danna Rodebush chats with Amy Dickson from Amazing Materials 4 You all about number sense in the upper elementary classroom.
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Welcome to episode 47 of the Upper Elementary Simplified podcast. In this episode, host Danna Rodebush chats with Laura Balliett from Cool School Comics all about creative teaching by using comic books to teach & review math concepts.
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Welcome to episode 46 of the Upper Elementary Simplified podcast. In this episode, host Danna Rodebush shares stories from the classroom about multiplication fact fluency.
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Welcome to episode 45 of the Upper Elementary Simplified podcast. In this episode, host Danna Rodebush shares her secret about the one thing that will change math forever.
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Welcome to episode 44 of the Upper Elementary Simplified podcast. In this episode, host Danna Rodebush discusses incomplete fluency, what it is, why it’s a problem, and what you can do to solve it. So let’s go ahead and get started.
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Mastery refers to having great skill at something or total dominance over something. If you are fluent in a language, you have a mastery of the language.
Welcome to episode 43 of the Upper Elementary Simplified podcast. In this episode, host Danna Rodebush discusses the 3 characteristics of multiplication fact mastery.
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Imagine reading a sentence that says: “Elevated abecedarian pupils toil amidst computative certitude eloquence credentials instigating extensive thwarting.”
Are you able to comprehend the meaning of the sentence? Maybe you can comprehend but it takes you just a little bit longer because you aren’t familiar with the meaning of all of the words.
Welcome to episode 42 of the Upper Elementary Simplified podcast. In this episode, host ...
Raise your hand if you have students in your upper elementary classroom who still count on their fingers or draw circles, or draw tally marks to find the product of 6x8?
Welcome to episode 41 of the Upper Elementary Simplified podcast. In this episode, host Danna Rodebush discusses a massive problem that teachers are facing on a daily basis.
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Welcome to episode 40 of the Upper Elementary Simplified podcast.
In this episode, host Danna Rodebush & 19 of her teacher friends tell stories from the classroom to inspire you to finish December strong, to be the teacher you want to be, and the teacher your students deserve.
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