Lucas Clarke

Mr. Clarke After Dark

Education EN ↓ 128 episodes

Welcome to the “Mr. Clarke After Dark” podcast with host Lucas Clarke, an educator determined to move away from recycled professional development and engage in more nuanced, personable, and relevant conversations for learning. Each week, Mr. Clarke unpacks the inner workings of the classroom and learns out loud with educators, politicians, comedians, and other field experts of all shapes, sizes, and burnout levels. Whether they have been in the trenches of their profession for five months or fifty years, we are here to share everything from classroom hacks, our worst mistakes, and the occasio...

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Lucas Clarke

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Make Teaching Creative Again | Episode #3 - Nicole North 06.09.2023 59:21

Nicole North is currently in her first year of teaching after receiving her Education Degree from the University of Alberta. On this episode Nicole and I discuss how to incorporate your creativity and its relationship with personal development, the lack of individual initiative given to students, "Popcorn Parties," being surprised about liking junior high, balancing creativity with the s...

Does Classroom Management Even Exist | Episode #2 - Hilary Morgan 06.09.2023 55:09

Hilary Morgan is a Secondary English & Social Studies Teacher who is currently in her seventh year teaching overall. On today's episode Hilary and I discuss how she is NOT from Cape Breton, East Coast vs. West Coast learning, the different types of essays in Alberta for English and how to unpack them, the overly formal nature of teaching and dilution of literary appreciation in a standard...

Avoiding Spelling Tests | Episode #1 - Tom Keca 06.09.2023 1:12:51

Tom Keca is a Teacher, former long-time Junior A hockey coach, and is now working with hockey schools in the Edmonton area. On this episode, Keca and I discuss his Eastern European Roots, Choosing the right career and finding purpose, Questionable Classroom Building exercises in his first-year Grade 5 classroom, university preparation (or lack thereof), how the role teachers have expanded, support...