Teachers Talk Radio

Empowering educators - Pupil wellbeing in 10 minutes a day: The Late Show with Tom Rogers, Poppy Gibson and the Happy Confident Company

If you are interested in pupil wellbeing - listen to this!
Tom and Poppy are joined by Emma Cate Stokes and Nadim Saar (CEO of the Happy Confident Company) to discuss the issues around pupil wellbeing and the possible solutions. 
Find out more about Happy Confident Company here: https://www.happyconfident.com/

Should schools fear or embrace the digital world? : The Friday Morning Break with John Gibbs

This week my guest is Dr. Cristina Costa, Associate Professor in the School of Education at Durham University. We discuss digital safety, the opportunities, dangers and the future of the digital school. 

Wrath: The Late Late Show with Ed Finch and Toby P-C

We discussed our third of the seven deadly sins, wrath, this week.  Inside the classroom, within ourselves and across the profession as well.  We also spent a lot of time speaking about music festivals, both expressing our wrath at folding chairs at such events, and Steve Earle, including a lush, wistful song of his beautifully played and sung by Ed.  Pride next week.  Think there's a lot we could explore there.

Is ELT doing enough for LGBTQIA+ Rights and Representation- The Twilight Show with Harry Waters

In his last show as a Teachers Talk Radio host Harry speaks to Tyson Seburn, Taylor Veigga and Peter J Fullagar about representation within ELT and what we can do to push it further. 

Creating a Culture of Oracy in School: The Morning Break with Poppy Gibson

Angela Schofield joins Poppy to discuss developing Oracy in Schools.

Tiny Voices Talk with Toria Bono: The Twilight Show with Hannah Wilson

On this show Hannah is joined by Toria Bono to discuss her new book Tiny Voices Talk - Education, Engagement, Empowerment. They review the book and all the important areas of education that need a voice. They discuss the need to find your voice in education and how important it is. The love we all have for teaching and the large supportive teaching community we are all apart of. 

Interview with Yannich, a French MFL teacher: The Twilight Show with Maud

For her 40th podcast on TeachersTalkRadio, Maud has invited Yannick who is a French citizen living and working in the UK since the 1990s.
Yannick has a wealth of experience in the education system and is here to share them with the audience.
His interests are in relation-ship building, fighting poverty in education and motivating students. He has some pretty radical solutions for the teacher retention crisis too.

Supporting ECTs: The Twilight Show with Maxine Howells

Maxine discusses how the profession can support ECTs.

Teaching, Creativity and Social Justice: The Twilight Show with Graham Stanley

I spoke to Nick Bilbrough today. Nick has taught and trained language teachers in many diverse contexts in Africa, the Middle East, South America and Europe,  but is now self-employed and lives in Totnes, Devon in the UK.
We spoke about the work he has done as a teacher, teacher trainer and as the founder of the Hands Up Project, an organisation dedicated to giving opportunities to children in difficult circumstances, such as Palestine, to use English to communicate with each other across borders. This involves a lot of storytelling, poetry, and remote theatre

Some Passages in the Life of One of H.M. Inspectors of Schools : The Saturday Breakfast Show with Darren Lester

Darren opines on technology and Germany's suggestion of removing primary school English lessons, before listening to selections from E. M. Sneyd-Kynnersley's 1908 book on school inspections. Our big lesson is that some things never change!