The Todd Cast - Teaching Theory into Teaching Practice

Feb 25 2025 82 ep. 17 mins 55

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Program for educators looking for practical strategies that can be used in the classroom immediately. Topics include authentic learning, social and emotional development, 21st century learning, underachievement, and gifted education.

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The ToddCast - 5 Ways to Work With Your Gifted Child's Teacher

Feb 25 2025 15 mins

5 Ways to Work With Your Gifted Child's Teacher - for parents of gifted children, teachers should have the same goal about a child which is ensure he or she is growing as a learner. This would seemingly put both of them on the same page but there are times parents and teachers find themselves at odds with one another. This can especially happen with a child that the teacher doe

The ToddCast - 5 Things Every Administrator Should Know

Jan 25 2025 5 mins

5 things every administrator should know about gifted - like a lot of people in education, many administrators have not had a lot of training in working with gifted students so have some preconceived notions about them. After all, we don't know what we don't know. This Todd Talk discusses 5 things that every administrator should be aware of when working with this population

The ToddCast - Metacognition (EFS)

Aug 01 2024 27 mins

Metacognition (Executive Functioning Skills) - metacognition is an awareness of your own thoughts. But how do you teach students to be aware of this? You provide them structure to be able to think about their thinking. This is anything from gaining a greater awareness of oneself by figuring out how you learn best, to seeing your thought process by showing your work, reflecting upon

The ToddCast - Perseverance (EFS)

Jul 05 2024 40 mins

Perseverance/Grit (Executive Functioning Skills) - perseverance is the ability to follow through or to push through when faced with obstacles. This is something we would like all of our students to have when coming to the classroom, but how deliberate are we about teaching such skills. This tutorial provides some very specific strategies or activities on how to be purposeful in cre

The ToddCast - Planning (EFS)

Jun 06 2024 25 mins

Planning (Executive Functioning Skills) - We always expect students to have a plan, but do we always show them how to do it? What if we were more deliberate about teaching students how you plan out a long term project, or a study schedule for an upcoming test, or even their workload for the current day? Tools and strategies are shared here for teaching to help students understand w

The ToddCast - Organization (EFS)

May 03 2024 35 mins

Organization (Executive Functioning Skills) - there are many aspects to organization for a student at school. There is their schoolwork, their materials, their personal belongings, their time, and their thoughts. We explore several strategies for how a students might go about organizing these things so that they can effectively work on what it is there are supposed to be which is l

The ToddCast - Task Initiation (EFS)

Apr 05 2024 28 mins

Task initiation (Executive Functioning Skills) - you can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink. Similarly, you can give a student a task, but it doesn't mean they are going to get started on it. How do we teach kids to avoid procrastination and to get started on their work in a timely manner? These ten strategies are ways you might consider deliberately teachi

The ToddCast - Time Management (EFS)

Mar 01 2024 29 mins

Time Management (Executive Functioning Skills) - you can plan and organize yourself all you want, but if you are unable to manage the time you are allotted, nothing is going to get done. Teachers either micromanage a student's time so much that the students do not learn to do this for themselves, or we give them a big block of time with no guidance for how to manage it. What if

The ToddCast - Focus (EFS)

Feb 02 2024 40 mins

Focus (Executive Functioning Skills) - none of the other executive functioning skills work effectively if a student is not able to focus. Developing this skill through setting the environment, having teacher clarity, and being aware of mindfulness are just some of the strategies shared in order to build the focus endurance of your students.

The ToddCast - Self-Control (EFS)

Jan 05 2024 39 mins

Self Control/Regulation (Executive Functioning Skills) - are you unable to keep your emotions in check? Can you not resist the urge to do something when it tempts you? Do you find yourself blurting out answers the second they pop into your head? If the answer is yes to any of these you might have a self-control/self-regulation issues. This is either not giving in when something dis