Teaching Teachers with Dr. Summer Morrill (S4 E6)
SUMMER MORRILL: Being unsure and not knowing is actually a great thing to show your students, right? Because it models that curiosity, it models that question-asking. And you can come back to them and say, here's what I learned and how I learned it. SARAH HANSEN: Today on Chalk Radio, how thinking like scientists can make us better teachers and how teachers can be powerful mentors for future scientists. I'm Sarah Hansen. For this episode, I sat down with Dr. Summer Morrill. SUMMER MORRILL: I started off as a graduate student at MIT in biology, but I'm currently the Instructor of TA Training in the Biology Department SARAH HANSEN: I actually spoke with Summer right before she left MIT. Now she's a science instructor at a secondary school in New Hampshire. One of the reasons we were excited to bring Summer on the show was her unique and innovative approach to thinking about teaching. SUMMER MORRILL: I guess what I'm most interested in is thinking about h...