Welcome to edgy tips, a side project of the Cult of Pedagogy podcast where I share one quick idea to make your teaching better.

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edutip is use I statements to promote your teaching ideas. As you move through your career

as a teacher, you'll discover new ways of doing things that you're excited about, so excited that you want to share them with your colleagues and convince them to try them too. Because if a methodology is working in your classroom and your colleagues adopt that same approach, students benefit more and you and your colleagues get better at the method through

collaboration. But trained professionals aren't always open to changing the way they work

if things are going relatively well. And as peers, we don't want to come off as the know-it-all

telling everyone what to do. So the most effective way to share a new idea is to talk about it in terms

of I. I'm doing this new thing and it's working really well. Here's what I'm seeing in my classroom.

This is what I love about this approach. I heard this idea explained really well in an interview

given by Peter Lil Yadol, who is the creator of the thinking classrooms movement

that started with math instruction but has spread to many other subject areas and has grown

like crazy over the last few years. Peter's unconventional approach to teaching looks and is

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