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
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!
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.
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<...
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...
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 ...