Here's What to Expect In This Episode:
Join me and my bestie, Rebecca Joyner of It’s Not Rocket Science®, as we cover SO many things pertaining to high school counseling classroom lessons and the importance of building relationships.
Rebecca and I discuss finding the sweet spot in your classroom lessons when you decide that building relationships and establishing these relationships is the most important strategy. The secret to earning respect with your students comes from being your most authentic self. Students need you to be YOU, and that is more than enough to garner respect in the classroom if classroom lessons feel slightly uncomfortable.
We talk about what our different personality types mean inside the classroom for ourselves as leaders and for our students. There isn’t a right or wrong, but all personality types need to develop relationships in order to thrive.
Rebecca drops some major truth bombs worth taking notes on. She elaborates on her beliefs that the two major keys to developing street cred in the classroom are competence and care.
Topics Covered in This Episode:
- Common mistakes adults tend to make with high school students
- What to do if classroom lessons are draining on your personality
- Why the relationship and partnership with both the teacher and students are important
- Why the key to earning the right to be heard in your classroom lessons lives within your desire for building relationships
- How to spice up a classroom lesson that feels bland and content-heavy
- Where to start in developing a classroom lesson
- A spicy take on ice breaker activities
- What do to if your admin throws a canned curriculum on you to teach in the classroom
- Strategies for partnering with and building relationships with the teacher who is hesitant to let a school counselor into their classroom
- What teachers wish high school counselors knew about teachers
- What school counselors wish teachers knew
- How to effectively partner together as high school counselors and teachers to best serve students
- Why building relationships and valuing these relationships is THE key to all classroom lessons
Guest Bio:
Rebecca Joyner is a former high school science teacher and soon-to-be mom of 3 kids as well as the founder and CEO of It’s Not Rocket Science®. She writes creative and comprehensive science curriculum that engages students and simplifies teachers’ lives so that teaching doesn’t have to be rocket science. She is also the host of the Secondary Science Simplified™ podcast.
Connect with Rebecca:
- Visit her website
- Send her a DM on Instagram: @it.not.rocket.science
- Listen to Secondary Science Simplified, a podcast for secondary science teachers
- Follow her on Facebook
- Send her an email
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