Take Your Classroom Outdoors with Seth Almekinder | Episode 21
09/21/20 • 49 min
Seth Almekinder is an elementary/middle school teacher at Naples Central School in NY. He taught for years in Poland and other various schools around the world, and this year will be leaving Naples to teach in Bangladesh. These experiences have helped Seth develop an excellent learning experience for his students in which they spend one full day outside each week doing place-based education. He explains how in the beginning of the year they start out with short local hikes, and by the end of the year his students are working up to 5-6 miles in a day.
Listen as Seth shares how he developed this program and how he implements it, and how despite spending a full day outside of the classroom learning, his students aren't missing out on learning opportunities and falling behind. These are the type of educators we love to highlight on MOVRS!
Thank you for listening and please rate/review/subscribe/follow!
Twitter - @SAlmekinder
Email - [email protected]
Episode Timeline:
5:00 - "Week Without Walls"
10:00 - Move to Learn
13:40 - Rigorous Academic Curriculum
22:30 - How to Start Place-Based Education at Your School
32:00 - Student Behavior Outside vs. Inside
43:50 - Teaching Internationally
Seth Almekinder is an elementary/middle school teacher at Naples Central School in NY. He taught for years in Poland and other various schools around the world, and this year will be leaving Naples to teach in Bangladesh. These experiences have helped Seth develop an excellent learning experience for his students in which they spend one full day outside each week doing place-based education. He explains how in the beginning of the year they start out with short local hikes, and by the end of the year his students are working up to 5-6 miles in a day.
Listen as Seth shares how he developed this program and how he implements it, and how despite spending a full day outside of the classroom learning, his students aren't missing out on learning opportunities and falling behind. These are the type of educators we love to highlight on MOVRS!
Thank you for listening and please rate/review/subscribe/follow!
Twitter - @SAlmekinder
Email - [email protected]
Episode Timeline:
5:00 - "Week Without Walls"
10:00 - Move to Learn
13:40 - Rigorous Academic Curriculum
22:30 - How to Start Place-Based Education at Your School
32:00 - Student Behavior Outside vs. Inside
43:50 - Teaching Internationally
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On top of co-founding The Ready State, Kelly and Juliet also started San Francisco CrossFit and StandUpKids together.
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Click here to access a FREE 14-day trial to his flagship program called Virtual Mobility Coach (which is like having a virtual Kelly Starrett in your pocket). TRS Virtual Mobility Coach provides users guided mobilization videos customized for your body and lifestyle, including a personal “pain prescription” to fix your aches and stiffness, guided pre and post-exercise mobilizations tailored for your training and sports schedule, and mobilizations for your “off” days to maintain your range-of-motion and reduce your risk of injury.
He and I talked about how we can help kids develop sound movement mechanics when they're young, so that they are more likely to move well for a lifetime. Later in the episode, we focus on the importance of the feet, and how wearing the right sneakers, or no sneakers at all, can have dramatic positive effects on their entire body.
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Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/thereadystate/
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YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnnB4zDBqZHhQ4uLTAX8eYA
Stand Up Kids - https://standupkids.org/
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@movrs.podcast
Episode Timeline:
1:30 - Who's Responsible?
12:00 - Stand Up Kids
18:30 - Reimagining School Structure
22:00 - Why Happens When Kids Sit Too Long?
27:30 - Teaching Movement Skills
32:15 - How Do We Assess Kids in Movement?
38:30 - The Importance of Our Feet
47:00 - TRS App for Kids
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Dad Games Instagram:
@dad.games
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1:00 - The Dad Games Story14:00 - Prioritizing Time with Your Kids
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