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Chef Educator
The Chef Educator podcast was created to be a comprehensive resource for new and "seasoned" culinary, baking & pastry, and hospitality teachers, instructors and faculty at both secondary and post-secondary educational institutions.The show addresses the many issues related to student lea...
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Curious Students Learn Best
Understanding the brain's tendencies to avoid excessive thinking is crucial for educators. We need to leverage this knowledge to help foster a love fo...
Preparing Engaging Presentations
It is a fact that effective and engaging presentations are the result of proper preparation. They don't happen by accident or chance. So whether you a...
Naked & Natural Presenting
We all know the struggle of enduring a monotonous presentation that leaves us counting down the seconds until it's over. But fear not, because in this...
Active Learning Facilitation
Active learning is an instructional approach that encourages students to actively participate in their own learning process. In this episode, Dr. Coli...
Introduction to Active Learning
Active learning is an instructional approach that encourages students to actively participate in their own learning process. In this episode, Dr. Coli...
Accepting Personal Responsibility
Personal responsibility is the ability to respond wisely at each fork in the road with choices that move you closer to your desired outcomes and exper...
Effective Class Discussions
Whether you are a new teacher / faulty member or a teaching veteran, if you are looking for advice on how to hold a better class discussion, then this...
Conducting an Effective Demonstration
While there are a number of instructional strategies and methods that can be used to help our students achieve cognitive objectives, such as lectures,...
Becoming An Effective Teacher
A teacher's effectiveness is determined in large part by their subject matter competency, professional competency, and personal competency. Inadequacy...
Presenting Naked
The ability to stand and deliver a powerful presentation that engages the whole minds of our audience is more important today than ever before, partly...
Podcasts in the Classroom
Podcasting has been around for many years but has recently gained new interest and popularity due to new topics and celebrity hosts, as well as easier...
Improving Teaching Through Practice
Teaching is a cognitive skill just like any other, so how can we increase the space in our working memory, our factual subject knowledge, and our proc...
Practice Testing for Students
A recent survey of undergraduate students revealed that 84% studied by rereading their notes or textbook. Despite its popularity, rereading has incons...
Upset Students Can't Learn
Almost every student becomes angry at some point in school. After all, anger is a normal human emotion. And it is not a problem if a student becomes a...
Long-Term Memory
Neuroscience researchers have shown that when you learn something new, there is a physical change in your brain. You have approximately 86 billion bra...
Working Memory
Memory is what enables us to learn by experience, therefore memory is essential to survival. And in this episode, we specifically focus on "working" m...
Memory and Learning
The brain's programming promotes survival of the animal and the species. This programming has guided mammalian development and adaptations for surviva...
Writing Your Teaching Philosophy
A teaching philosophy (also known as an educational philosophy, a teaching statement, a philosophy of education, a philosophy of teaching, etc.) is a...
Exercise for the Brain
We know that exercise is great for our bodies, but what about for our brains? Does going for a run, hitting the gym, or lifting some weights really af...
How the Brain Works
Learning is a complicated process. Several thousand years ago, the primary job of the human brain was to figure out how to find food, avoid getting ea...
Percentage Grades and the use of Zeros
Percentage grading systems that attempt to identify 100 distinct levels of performance distort the precision, objectivity and reliability of grades. A...
Grade Confusion
When most students come into our classrooms, they bring with them an unhealthy attitude toward grading, which has often been instilled in them by pare...
Formative vs. Summative Assessment
Most aspects of grading and reporting have been around forever and reflect traditions that have been a part of our education system since the early 19...
Top Ten Tips For Remote Learning
Today's episode is titled "Top Ten Tips for Remote Learning" and is basically the same message that Dr. Colin Roche sent out all of his students this...
Chef Educator Podcast Trailer
Listen to this short trailer to find out what the Chef Educator podcast is all about! Hosted by Dr. Professor Chef Colin Roche, the show is available...
Instructional Continuity
When classroom instruction is interrupted due to emergencies, we as faculty need to use alternative methods and tools to continue teaching our classes...
The Lecture
The success of your lectures depends as much on the planning as it does on the delivery. There is a lot of information available on the factors that m...
The First Year Teacher
As a new teacher, your life is already stressful. You are entering a new job, setting up a new classroom, dealing with new procedures, completing a to...
The First Day of Class
A successful first day of class can be a key component of a successful course. You should envision the first day as more than just a time to review th...
Effective Lesson Planning
Whether you are a new teacher, a part-time adjunct teacher, or even a veteran teacher, lesson plans matter! Learning is our ultimate goal when we deli...
Constructing the Syllabus
The syllabus is one of the most important documents that you will create for your class because when it is done well, it communicates a variety of imp...
Designing A Course
The Chef Educator podcast was created as a comprehensive resource for new and "seasoned" culinary, hospitality, and pastry arts teachers, instructors...