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
Episodes
13 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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0:28
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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1:06:21
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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1:15:01
Excellence, pt. 2—What is the true value of excellence? (WATEC #008)
Wes and Ted answer deeper questions about excellence. If we agree that excellence should not be an end goal, what should be? Does excellence represent craftsmanship rather than artistry? Is Bill Gates excellent? Is Mark Zuckerberg excellent...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:03:04
Excellence, pt. 1—What is excellence? And why am I chasing it? (WATEC #007)
Wes and Ted discuss their old frenemy "excellence," and come to some surprising conclusions. Among them: Ted is not sure he endorses the pursuit of it. Why do we pursue it? What are we really after? Wes and Ted offer practical steps for...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:09:24
Subject Tests—The SAT Subject Tests are no more (WATEC #006)
While Wes mourns the loss of the problem-solving of the Math Level 2 Subject Test, Ted kicks dirt on the grave of the tests he considers completely pointless.
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:11:41
Process—What do you tell yourself to get stuff done? (WATEC #005)
How come there's such a gap between what we want to do and what we actually do? And how can we close that gap? Wes & Ted get real.
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:07:32
Self-direction—Owning your own learning (WATEC #004)
We get to witness our students transition from children to young adults. Along the way, they develop self-direction—the means and desire to shape their own learning. We talk about what students need in order to successfully attain this critical...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:12:41
Tools—What tools, technological and otherwise, help students get ahead? (WATEC #003)
Every trade requires a trusted toolkit. What tools belong in the kit of a great learner? Wes and Ted weigh in.https://wescarroll.com | https://tutorted.co...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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59:00