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Employees are the backbone of each successful company. But the common hiring process produces 85% disengaged and wrongly hired employees. This results in a high quitting and firing rate or low performances and frustration in the job (for both employer and employee).

Thus the common hiring process is flawed. If you think about it: The whole hiring process is solely designed for the sole purpose of testing, if a person will fit into your company. If the fit is good, the person will feel engaged. If it is bad, the person will underperform, disturb the well-being of your team, quit internally, be fired or leave the company. But with 85% of the employees feeling disenganged and high firing and quitting rates, it seems that the process is 85% of the time wrong and needs to be changed.

And there are well studied science hacks how to flip this number upside down and hire the right candidates 80% of the time! Science has brought us artificial intelligence, improved medicine and a ticket to Mars. But when it comes to hiring, many people still ignore the results science has produced in the field of hiring. We can't talk on the one hand about the "War for Talents" and then on the other hand ignore that our hiring process might be highly underperforming.

For that reason Ansgar Bittermann, CEO of Goldblum, is going to show scientific findings and real life use cases of Goldblum's day2day work on how to use these science-hacks for your advantage and hire the right candidate.

Social Skills are more than just etiquette and manners. Ashley Rose, founder and clinical director of Mission Cognition Social Skills Development Center, is here with me sharing about the importance of social skill instruction. Ashley describes social skills as the inner workings of social interaction. She takes a very individualized approach when deciding exactly what to work on by learning what exactly is making it difficult for an individual to have positive interactions with themselves or others.

Ashley’s centers provide the perfect atmosphere for individualized groups. She has three leveled groups, Group A being the developmental play group, for individuals with emerging language. Groups B and C are best suited to individuals with more language skills, and is her more signature Behavior Skill Training group.

The planning for Ashley’s groups focus on individualization. Ashley has developed 15 Global Focus Areas that she uses to target training in her groups. She has also developed an in-house assessment tool to identify these areas. For each group, she uses templates such as Group at a Glance, Student Snapshots, and Goal Sheets. The idea behind all of this is rationale, every group facilitator should be able to explain the ‘why’ behind the goals selected for any individual. The end goal for every play group, whether it be developmental play or behavior skill training, is to give the participants autonomy and allow ease of social interaction in their natural environment.

We also touch on the topic of Masking. Autistic voices are speaking out against this practice as harmful and unethical, and Ashley tells us why. At one point, the idea of teaching Masking was to help individuals with Autism reduce the appearance of self-stimulatory behavior to help them “fit in”. However, this behavior is actually a self-regulation tool. Another way Masking has been used is to teach scripting in social situations. Instead of relying on scripting, Ashley teaches language use in a more natural template. Her goal is always to give her students the most autonomy and individuality as possible.

Self-advocacy and Independence are the words of the day that Ashley leaves us with. No matter the age, it is important to give your child the tools to communicate what they want and need, but equally what they don’t want. Ashley shared some great resources today and gave some awesome tips for parents and professionals for creating ease in social situations and interactions that will affect their children or students every day.

What's Inside:

• Social Skill Instruction
• Selecting and Setting Social Skills Goals
• Intake, Assessment, and Development
• Framework for Planning Groups
• Planning for Generalization, Applying Skills in the Natural Environment
• Masking 

There are 100's of movement assessments you can use on clients. So which ones should you use? What are the main joints to prioritise? What are we looking for? We discuss all-things 'Movements Assessments' in this episode, which leads nicely in to our next episode with a movement assessment expert.

Bryan St. Andrews is the owner of State College Strength & Conditioning & OPEX State College. He has a Kinesiology Degree, and has his CSCS, CrossFit Level 3, and OPEX CCP. 

Bryan has coached athletes to compete at the highest level, including the IF3 & CrossFit Games.

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Discussion Points

• What the assessment process should look like for CrossFit Competitors vs. GPP (general fitness) Athletes

• How athletes need to embrace the process and stop wanting instant gratification

• How coaches need to know their history of the sport of fitness to best coach their athletes

• How coaching hopping is ruining your progress

• How to find a coach who is the right fit for you


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Today's BONUS segment with Kristen Sorondo, RN, IBCLC is all about tongue and lip ties!  

Believe it or not, the research behind tongue and lips ties has developed a lot over the years. We discuss what a tongue and lip tie is and some of the research that has come out about them in more recent years. This is a highly controversial subject, so please note we are sharing information that is put out there, but it is up to you to choose what is best for you and your family.  

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Physics Friday

Muon g-2
The experiment webpage, and some extra videos and links to the Seminar can be found here.

STEAM > STEM
Brandi's @sciartbro instagram account
Arts at Cern, and their instagram account.
The College of William and Mary's Virtual Mural Conservation Challenge.
Toni Feder's piece in Physics Today

The Martian Helicopter
Check out Nasa's website for All things Ingenuity.

Thanks for checking us out!
The Accelerated Physics Podcast is a production of the Pasayten Institute, whose mission is to build and share physics knowledge, without barriers. This podcast aims to serve both students and teachers of physics by injecting ideas, starting conversations. Have any ideas or feedback? Drop us a line: https://www.pasayten.org/heysean
 
This show is made possible in part by the Physics Accelerator, whose mission is to support people in the quest to learn mathematics and physics. The Physics Accelerator is a program of the Pasayten Institute. Music today by Particle House. The show is written, editing and produced by me, Sean Downes. Thank you so much for listening.

You can always find us online at: https://physicsaccelerator.com

Lessons Learned in Grading
1. Grading in groups builds community.
2. Get it done. ASAP. For your own sanity and for closing the feedback loop faster.
3. Go birds eye first: student errors typically fall into equivalence classes.

Thanks for checking us out!
The Accelerated Physics Podcast is a production of the Pasayten Institute, whose mission is to build and share physics knowledge, without barriers. This podcast aims to serve both students and teachers of physics by injecting ideas, starting conversations. Have any ideas or feedback? Drop us a line: https://www.pasayten.org/heysean
 
This show is made possible in part by the Physics Accelerator, whose mission is to support people in the quest to learn mathematics and physics. The Physics Accelerator is a program of the Pasayten Institute. Music today by Particle House. The show is written, editing and produced by me, Sean Downes. Thank you so much for listening.

You can always find us online at: https://physicsaccelerator.com

Think like a Physicist?
Physicists have their own culture, and part of that culture is a kind of collective, self reflection. One of the most common targets? Creative problem solving.

If you want to see a physicist student panic, as them to model the electron configuration of a benzene ring. As undergraduates spend weeks studying the electron configuration of the hydrogen atom in a quantum mechanics course. Weeks. And that’s just ONE atom. How are you going to model an entire, super complicated organic chemical like Bezene?!

Why. With Symmetry, of course.

Thanks for checking us out!
The Accelerated Physics Podcast is a production of the Pasayten Institute, whose mission is to build and share physics knowledge, without barriers. This podcast aims to serve both students and teachers of physics by injecting ideas, starting conversations. Have any ideas or feedback? Drop us a line: https://www.pasayten.org/heysean
 
This show is made possible in part by the Physics Accelerator, whose mission is to support people in the quest to learn mathematics and physics. The Physics Accelerator is a program of the Pasayten Institute. Music today by Gloria Tells. The show is written, editing and produced by me, Sean Downes. Thank you so much for listening.

You can always find us online at: https://physicsaccelerator.com

Physics Friday

Majorana Particles : The neutrino may well be a Majorana fermion, experiments are currently underway. In condensed matter, many folks are hot on the trail of a quasi Majorana fermion. A recent claimed observation has been retracted. Science is messy. Check out Thomas Lewton's article on the subject.

Xenobots : Check out Doug Blackiston’s research website on xenobots, and Philip Ball’s recent piece in Quanta.

The Coma Cluster : Bruce McClure has a write up in EarthSky this week about hunting the Coma Cluster. The cluster has a rich history in modern astrophysics; it was one of the first case studies in Dark Matter. As Fritz Zwicky pointed out way back in 1933, the motion of the galaxies in the coma cluster are totally inconsistent with their expected mass.

Thanks for checking us out!
The Accelerated Physics Podcast is a production of the Pasayten Institute, whose mission is to build and share physics knowledge, without barriers. This podcast aims to serve both students and teachers of physics by injecting ideas, starting conversations. Have any ideas or feedback? Drop us a line: https://www.pasayten.org/heysean
 
This show is made possible in part by the Physics Accelerator, whose mission is to support people in the quest to learn mathematics and physics. The Physics Accelerator is a program of the Pasayten Institute. Music today by Particle House. The show is written, editing and produced by me, Sean Downes. Thank you so much for listening.

You can always find us online at: https://physicsaccelerator.com

Angular Momentum, Magnetic Dipoles and Quantized Spin

We take ideas in first year physics: angular momentum and current loops, and describe to what extent they can model the magnetic dipole moment of elementary particles, and more generally, the idea of quantized spin.

Also. Read Nobel laureate Dudley Hershbach's fun account of replicating the Stern-Gerlach experiment.

Thanks for checking us out!
The Accelerated Physics Podcast is a production of the Pasayten Institute, whose mission is to build and share physics knowledge, without barriers. This podcast aims to serve both students and teachers of physics by injecting ideas, starting conversations. Have any ideas or feedback? Drop us a line: https://www.pasayten.org/heysean
 
This show is made possible in part by the Physics Accelerator, whose mission is to support people in the quest to learn mathematics and physics. The Physics Accelerator is a program of the Pasayten Institute. Music today by Gloria Tells. The show is written, editing and produced by me, Sean Downes. Thank you so much for listening.

You can always find us online at: https://physicsaccelerator.com

Incentive homework without having to grade it
Last week we discussed using quizzes as a poll for student’s comprehension of the material. This week, we’re turning that idea on its head. Let’s discuss the use of quizzes to motivate students to LEARN the material. Compulsory homework motivates students to only do problems once. And some problems are probably worth doing multiple times.It’s self-defeating all around. So how do you get the notoriously short-time-horizon motivated high school and college students to do their homework? The open-homework quiz.

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The Accelerated Physics Podcast is a production of the Pasayten Institute, whose mission is to build and share physics knowledge, without barriers. This podcast aims to serve both students and teachers of physics by injecting ideas, starting conversations. Have any ideas or feedback? Drop us a line: https://www.pasayten.org/heysean
 
This show is made possible in part by the Physics Accelerator, whose mission is to support people in the quest to learn mathematics and physics. The Physics Accelerator is a program of the Pasayten Institute. Music today by Particle House. The show is written, editing and produced by me, Sean Downes. Thank you so much for listening.

You can always find us online at: https://physicsaccelerator.com

Testing your Deliberate Practice
The most impactful advice for learning math and science I ever receive came - unsurprisingly - in a physics class. It was an electrodynamics class. It’s heavy subject full of complicated equations, solutions and derivations. Even for an advanced class, the material was so thick and so dense that even the professor felt it necessary to share some studying tips.

"Do the derivation three times without looking at your notes. When you can accomplish that, you're ready for the exam."

This approach is about gauging your own understanding of the material.

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The Accelerated Physics Podcast is a production of the Pasayten Institute, whose mission is to build and share physics knowledge, without barriers. This podcast aims to serve both students and teachers of physics by injecting ideas, starting conversations. Have any ideas or feedback? Drop us a line: https://www.pasayten.org/heysean
 
This show is made possible in part by the Physics Accelerator, whose mission is to support people in the quest to learn mathematics and physics. The Physics Accelerator is a program of the Pasayten Institute. Music today by Gloria Tells. The show is written, editing and produced by me, Sean Downes. Thank you so much for listening.

You can always find us online at: https://physicsaccelerator.com

Physics Friday
The LHCb experiment reports on new tension with the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Check out our write up on this issue. Also check out our rant about why this absolutely is NOT a discovery or sighting of any new particle.

The Glashow Resonance is observed by the IceCube Neutrino experiment. We wrote about this last week on our blog, check the links to the relevant info there.

Superconducting skyrmions are observed in two-layers of graphene. We also wrote a summary of these skyrmions and the room temperature superconductor information on our blog. Here's Charlie's article at Quanta.

Thanks for checking us out!
The Accelerated Physics Podcast is a production of the Pasayten Institute, whose mission is to build and share physics knowledge, without barriers. This podcast aims to serve both students and teachers of physics by injecting ideas, starting conversations. Have any ideas or feedback? Drop us a line: https://www.pasayten.org/heysean
 
This show is made possible in part by the Physics Accelerator, whose mission is to support people in the quest to learn mathematics and physics. The Physics Accelerator is a program of the Pasayten Institute. Music today by Particle House. The show is written, editing and produced by me, Sean Downes. Thank you so much for listening.

You can always find us online at: https://physicsaccelerator.com

Polling with Quizzes

The usual grading cycle of weekly homework and exams can delay feedback to the instructor by well over two weeks. Assessing student understanding with low stakes quizzes can both catalyze learning and serve as a classroom poll of understanding.

When work is to be shown, usually student mistakes fall into definite patterns. You can quickly sort the quizzes and grade on those equivalence classes. Since they're low stakes anyway, detailed grading rubrics like you'd impose on a exam aren't relevant here. Pass / Fail or 10/5/2 work just fine.

Thanks for checking us out!
The Accelerated Physics Podcast is a production of the Pasayten Institute, whose mission is to build and share physics knowledge, without barriers. This podcast aims to serve both students and teachers of physics by injecting ideas, starting conversations. Have any ideas or feedback? Drop us a line: https://www.pasayten.org/heysean
 
This show is made possible in part by the Physics Accelerator, whose mission is to support people in the quest to learn mathematics and physics. The Physics Accelerator is a program of the Pasayten Institute. Music today by Particle House. The show is written, editing and produced by me, Sean Downes. Thank you so much for listening.

You can always find us online at: https://physicsaccelerator.com

Learning as Training

Today I'll relate one of my first "ah ha!" moments of teaching mathematics, where the prescriptive instincts of a traditional education in math fails students.

There’s a strong parallel between athletic training and studying mathematics- or really any kind of technical skill:  be it professional cooking or coding. Grinding repetition. Constant drilling. You have to be able to perform the same action, with precision, at a moments notice, which means doing it over and over and over again. There’s no shortcut to getting fit, and there’s no shortcut for building your own capacity. The boring work matters. A lot.

But here’s the thing. All that training is what helps you through panic and confusion. Be it during a test or a conversation - or even while trying to teach!

And that panic ACCELERATES the learning.  It’s that frantic grasping around for ideas, feeling like a fool. These are the moments we want to encourage and cultivate. These are the moments were we grow. This is that grinding repetition converts into knowledge.

Confronting your confusion is going to be a theme on this show.

Thanks for checking us out!
The Accelerated Physics Podcast is a production of the Pasayten Institute, whose mission is to build and share physics knowledge, without barriers. This podcast aims to serve both students and teachers of physics by injecting ideas, starting conversations. Have any ideas or feedback? Drop us a line: https://www.pasayten.org/heysean
 
This show is made possible in part by the Physics Accelerator, whose mission is to support people in the quest to learn mathematics and physics. The Physics Accelerator is a program of the Pasayten Institute. Music today by Gloria Tells. The show is written, editing and produced by me, Sean Downes. Thank you so much for listening.

You can always find us online at: https://physicsaccelerator.com

Sean here from the Pasayten Institute. If you haven’t heard us, we’re an organization devoted to development of physics knowledge, for everyone, without barriers. In our new Accelerated Physics podcast, we are aiming specifically to discuss matters of learning and teaching physics.

I’ve taught math and physics and facilitated that learning professionally at almost every level: from third grade arithmetic to graduate mathematical methods. The bulk of it, though, has been directed at first year college students: mechanics, electromagnetism, calculus, that sort of thing.

These experiences have shaped the way I understand Physics - and how I learn new things myself, and so I wanted to share them with you. 

This podcast will have something for everyone: we’ll share practical stories in learning math and physics, like how to pick up new ideas faster through repetition, and how to know when you’re ready for a test or a quiz or even a presentation.

We’ll also share some hard earned lessons in teaching: Like how to support a mindful approach to instruction and assessment. How to incentivize students to do their homework without simply awarding or subtracting points.  And what the role of quizzes might be in teaching, and how it can be improved. 

Besides tips and tricks, we’ll share basic concepts to big ideas: like what circuits have to do with quantum mechanics, how special relativity impacts us - literally every day - and how the Doppler effect can teach us about the earliest moments - and the farthest reaches -  of our universe.

Whether you’re a student or an instructor, you’ll find a wealth of ideas both practical and inspirational. Here at the Pasayten Institute, we’re convinced that like photons, perspectives should be exchanged, and often! 

Now. Full disclosure. We’re putting this show together to announce our new service: the physics accelerator. The physics accelerator is not about learning physics persay - it’s about accelerating that learning. We’ll even have a product for instructors too! Our aim to to get you up to speed, faster. Like anything, it’s hard work, but we’ll be there to help you through it. If this is at all interesting to you - or you’re just interested in supporting our work generally - subscribe to this show and keep an ear out for it.

As always. Thank you so much for listening and being a part of our community.

Orientation is the vital O in O&M and we might assume that everyone can learn orientation, but this is not the case. How can we assess a person’s ability to learn orientation to new places? The Stuart Tactile Maps test is a table top test of spatial cognition that only takes 10 minutes to administer. Everyone does the test wearing a blindfold whether or not they have vision and the test predicts a person’s ability to use mental mapping for orientation. So where did this test come from? In this episode, I’m talking with Dr Ian Stuart about starting out as a neuropsychologist in Melbourne in the 1970s. He developed the Stuart Tactile Maps test as part of his PhD study in the 1980s, working with congenitally blind children and adults with acquired brain injury. Ian has worked with me to make the Stuart Tactile Maps test commercially available for use by O&M specialists. The instruction  manual includes plenty of ideas for working with someone who has trouble with mental mapping.

What does risk mean in the EHS industry? We ask our experts in RMP, PSM, hazard assessment and more for their insights. We also hear from the Play Hard crew on the biggest risks they’ve taken and get a weather update from the frozen south.

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For TeachLab’s eighth Failure to Disrupt Book Club we look back at Justin’s live conversation with regular Audrey Watters and special guest Courtney Bell, a former research scientist at the Education Testing Services and now director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), UW–Madison School of Education. Together they discuss the book’s third edtech dilemma, the Trap of Routine Assessment.

“The assessment practice of observing Justin teach or Justin teaching in an assessment situation is not the same, by definition from Justin's real world teaching… My assertion is, that's always true in every assessment. If that's the case, then we think to ourself where can technology fit into this thing?”

- Courtney Bell

In this episode we’ll talk about:

• Courtney’s edtech story - PalmPilot and Mursion
• Complex performance assessment
• History of assessment technology - TUTOR and PLATO
• Real-world teaching vs. The observer effect
• Capturing teacher decision making
• Lack of social understanding in technology assessment
• Peer-assessment technology
• Meaningful feedback
• Stealth Assessment

Resources and Links

Watch the full Book Club webinar here!

Check out Justin Reich’s new book, Failure To Disrupt!

Join our self-paced online edX course: Becoming a More Equitable Educator: Mindsets and Practices

Transcript

https://teachlabpodcast.simplecast.com/episodes/bookclub8/transcript

Produced by Aimee Corrigan and Garrett Beazley

Recorded and mixed by Garrett Beazley

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