The Excellent Conversation (with Wes & Amie)
Pro tutors Wes Carroll and Amie Dorsey share insider views on American high-school education... and more. We gab, we gripe, and sometimes we even get to work solving the real problems affecting all of us and our kids. // See the conversation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXO0u6vZhrFyu9h0Z11h31Q
Podcasting since 2020 • 13 episodes
The Excellent Conversation (with Wes & Amie)
Latest Episodes
WATEC misses you! (WATEC #012.5)
WATEC is taking a summer break. Looking forward to seeing you next month!
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Season 1
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Not a Fair Fight—Individual instruction squares off against classroom learning. (WATEC #012)
Wes and Ted debate individual vs group instruction. Why is individual instruction so much better? The person you're teaching is always more complicated than the subject you're discussing.
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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1:07:43
Plato vs Modern Education—What does it take to transmit wisdom? (WATEC #011)
"Plato scratched things in the dirt." Wes and Ted unpack that very cryptic quote that's been sitting on our planning spreadsheet since the beginning.https://tutorted.com | https://wescarroll.com<...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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Parenting—How do parenting and tutoring overlap? (WATEC #010)
Wes and Ted don't parent their students, do they?Tutor Ted knows that he connects with students in a way that a parent typically cannot. Wes, both a tutor and a parent, weighs the similarities between tutoring and parenting... and the dif...
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1:00:26
The Post-Zoom Classroom—What have we learned from the pandemic? (WATEC #009)
Wes and Ted have been thinking about how changes to the traditional school structure affects students—in bad ways and in good. Today they venture (eventually!) into a chat about what specific aspects of school under pandemic might help us as ...
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