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Podcast: Brave New Teaching: A Podcast for High School and Middle School Teachers
Episode: EPISODE 129: CLASSROOM TRANSFORMATIONS & "FUN" ACTIVITIES
Description: As a teacher, do you ever feel like you have to choose between fun and rigor? Early in our teaching careers, we definitely got sucked into the “edutainment” culture, where we felt like we needed to constantly be performing. We had to keep things fresh and fun.We quickly learned that that led to two things - burnout and poor classroom management. Not to mention that centering all of your lessons around fun often meant sacrificing some crucial learning time. Depending on where you are in your career, you might have a mixed up, bizarre relationship with fun...