On a new episode of Teachers' Lounge: Exploring the top education issues to watch in 2021 with Rockford teacher Erik Czerwin.
Teachers’ Lounge host Peter Medlin and Erik dive into topics like:
- How COVID-19 has forever changed the school experience
- Are students really “falling behind” because of remote learning? What does that mean?
- Social-Emotional Learning and the way students are supported
- Project-Based Learning and how to get students solving real-world problems in the classroom
They also reflect on their list of issues from last year and how they evolved because of the pandemic.
Erik is also an award-winning chess coach, so they talked about the innovation needed to make an online chess season happen in Illinois and how that’s going.
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SHOW NOTES
Educator(s) in this episode:
Erik Czerwin
Music:
Our show's theme music is from the northern Illinois-based band "Kindoves" and their songs "Popn," "Origins" and "Quiche." You can find more of their music on their Soundcloud page. You can also listen to the episode of WNIJ's own "Sessions from Studio A" where they were featured.
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