Teachers Talk Radio

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!

Shaping Smoke: The Late Late Show with Paul Hazzard

Paul is joined by Organisational Psychologist, Jordan Reutas (@JordanReutas) whose work focuses on identity, leadership, performance, and wellbeing. Jordan has spent the last decade as a consultant helping clients to solve a range of problems using psychometric assessment, behaviour change initiatives, and skill-building programmes. Jordan’s PhD research, at The University of Queensland, uncovered new ways to build ‘shared identity’ so leaders and teams can work better together.Jordan is very active on Twitter on a range of educational, social and academic topics.National Thank a Teacher, mentioned in the show can be found here - https://thankateacher.co.uk/National Thank a Teacher Day this year is the 21 June 2023 and teachers and others can listen to Michael Morpurgo (@MichaelMorpugo - michaelmorpurgo.com) here - https://thankateacher.co.uk/competitions/ - talking about the competition they are running for pupils.Jordan can be followed on Twitter - @JordanReutasI appear on Twitter as @Arkle123

Culture, Cake and Yoga with Kelly Hannaghan: The Welbee Podcast Episode 1

Welcome to the brand new Welbee Podcast - series 1 will contain 6 episodes, with this being the very first. The Welbee podcast will focus on all thing wellbeing in schools. Mark Solomons is your host and he is joined by Kelly Hannaghan @mindworkmatters. Kelly is a Mental Health and Wellbeing Consultant helping people in organisations thrive. She is also a speaker, author, trainer, development advisor and coach. Welbee can help you systemise and improve staff wellbeing at your school, college or MAT without increasing your workload - find out more at Welbee.co.uk.

Teaching English around the World: The Twilight Show with Harry Waters

Harry speaks to 5 English teachers from Poland, India, Argentina and Greece to find out their "Why" when it comes to teaching. Some lovely insight from some exceptional teachers.

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

Ed and Toby's exploration of the seven deadly sins as applied to teaching, education and life continued with Envy this week.  Nuggets of wisdom and insight permeated the endearingly meandering and deviating chat.  

What do successful readers do?: The Morning Break with Jane Ritter

How do you help your learners become better readers? This morning I spoke with Sandy Millin about what successful readers do and how we can better support our learners. Sandy has wide-ranging experience as a teacher trainer, a CELTA trainer, a DipTESOL tutor, and working with teachers from around the world on many different projects and through many different platforms. She is passionate about CPD and has some strong views about how we need to provide better training for newly trained teachers, particularly when teaching skills such as Reading.
Sandy is an IATEFL Ambassador, runs her own Delta Module 1 and Module 3 courses and offers consultancy and bespoke workshops and training courses. She writes materials for methodology courses and English for teachers and volunteers on the IATEFL Materials Writing Special Interest Group (MaWSIG) committee. She regularly runs workshops and presents at conferences, both online and face-to-face.

Supporting Early Career Colleagues: The Late Show with Kathryn Taylor

Kathryn is joined by Assistant Headteacher Zoe Neagle to discuss CPD, supporting beginning and early career teachers, and how to keep the professional passion alive.

The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching with author Jim Knight: The Twilight Show with Hannah Wilson

On tonight's show, Hannah is joined by author Jim Knight to discuss his new book The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching. They discuss the seven factors for success and talk trough the different coaching techniques as well as some of the differences between American and British education systems. This show is brought to you in association with John Catt Publications.

Financial Education in Schools: The Late Show with Nathan Gynn and The Just Finance Foundation

Nathan is joined by Sarah from the 'LifeSavers' programme, which is part of the offer from the Just Finance Foundation, which offers free programmes to schools to support Finance Education. Find out more at https://www.justfinancefoundation.org.uk/. 
They discuss:
Who are JFF, what does it do and what is the LifeSaver programme?
When should you start teaching financial education?
What does good financial education look like?
What is MaPs/Money and Pensions Service and why are their funded projects so important?
How can you include financial education in the curriculum?
What subjects can you include financial education in? What cross curriculum activities can you do?
How can you make financial education inclusive?
What is the Alternative Provision project?
How does the AP project consider pupil voices?
Nathan is joined by Sarah Barlow for the show:
Sarah is the Financial Education Coordinator for Alternative Provisions. Sarah is a mum of two wonderfully unique children. She has worked within the education sector for over ten years and has been involved in several community and charity projects. She has a passion for supporting future generations and has undertaken additional Mental Health and Special Educational Needs and Disability training. When she is not working, Sarah can often be found walking her dog, Waffle, on the beach. Twitter: Teaching With Care And Kindness (@CareTeaching) / Twitter

”How do you do it?”: The Monday Morning Break with Marie Greenhalgh

In this week's episode I am speaking to Ben, who works in education full time and is coming to the end of studying for his degree part time. We talk about balancing work, studying and family life.