Teachers Talk Radio

Greening Our School The Twilight Show with Harry Waters

Edd Moore talks to Harry about how we can make our students and schools eco champions.

ELT & Academia: The Morning Break with Graham Stanley

A conversation with DJ Kaiser of Webster University about his work in English Language Teaching and academia, including research projects in Uzbekistan and Uruguay. 

Autistic Masking featuring Pete Wharmby: The Saturday Twilight show with Eugene McFadden

Eugene and guests discuss autistic masking.

Learning Walks: The Monday Morning Briefing with the Fake Headteacher

Fake Headteacher gives teachers and leaders essential top tips on what to look out for during learning walks.

Gangs, County Lines & Our Children: The Late Show with Shaniqua Edwards-Hayde

Shaniqua is joined by Dwayne Minors and Tony Saggers as they delve deep into gangs, county lines and how it affects children in the UK. They also discuss what educators should be thinking about and what they can do. Shaniqua also mentions advice and comments from a PCSO about what is going on. 
The government pledged to tackle the problem of county lines dug gangs, but experts warned that targeting existing gangs wouldn't be enough. It's been mentioned that early intervention and teachers have a crucial role to play. Listen to this informative podcast to find out what can be done and the views of others on this.

Decolonising Christmas: The Sunday Twilight show with Maud

In the spirit of decolonising education, I turned my gaze to our modern celebration of Christmas in Western societies. It is very enlightening to look back on the origins of this event, back to its celtic, norse and Latin origins.
Akin to a festival of light, an ancient pagan event, during the Winter Solstice was when the Norsemen or celts would bring a Yule log into their hearth and party in the night. This was later supplanted by the Roman saturnalia which consisted of a banquet and the offering of gifts in the honour of the God Saturn and then finally by Christianity with the superimposition of the nativity.
When an empire conquers a land, religious sites are not always systematically destroyed in order not to antagonise its people too much. The smoothest way of conquering the minds is to overlap one’s religious events with the previous ones, thus making them obsolete without causing too much offence or rioting. 
The Christians added the birth of Jesus Christ to what Midwinter signified, that is, in its pagan form, a celebration of the longest night. Thus, associating the birth of a baby to the rebirth of nature in the coming months of Spring.
Therefore, the history of our modern Christmas is a study of the accretion of religious and pagan habits with a contemporary sprinkle of our common newest altar: consumerism.
For instance it is fascinating to see how an american brand, Coca Cola, fashioned the mediaeval antithetic pair formed by Saint Nicholas and his antonym, Père Fouettard in France and Krampus in Austria into a benevolent and charming, rosy-cheeked and debonnaire Santa Klaus.
As a result, in an attempt to decolonise Christmas, it is important to peel its onion-like layers until we reach its core: _ a celebration of the brutal change of seasons and the human conquest of our most important technological advance which originates from the neolithic time: the mastery of fire.

Safer Schools - Lessons from the Pandemic with guest Karam Bales: The Sunday Lunch with Brent Poland and Spence

In his second lunch time show, Brent with special guest Karam Bales discusses school safety and lessons learned in light of the recent Pandemic. They are also joined by regular contributor Adam Spence.

Positivity? Culture : The Saturday Breakfast Show with Darren Lester

Darren talks about the dwindling celebration of Bonfire Night, before looking at the psychology of complaining and striking the balance between toxic positive and toxic negativity. 

Teaching with a disability: The Weekend Social with Yasmin Omar

Powerful personal accounts of being a teacher with a disability. Yasmin Omar is joined Melissa and Gemma who both have Multiple Sclerosis and they share their views on how to best support staff with MS. They are also joined by a trainee teacher & first wheelchair user in her school.

Middle ground on Edu-debates: The Twilight Show with Nathan Gynn

Stuck in the middle of edu-debates? Nathan is joined by Peter Mattock FCCT NPQSL @MrMattock & Allen Tsui @TsuiAllen, to ask - Is there a middle ground for teachers between Trad & Prog, between group work and recall, between nurture and SLANT?. #Trad #Prog #Debate #Pedagogy #Ideology