Teachers Talk Radio

A Black man’s experience in primary education: The Sunday Lunch Show with Kalil Rouse

Kalil is joined by Camron Mills to discuss his recent blog post about his experiences of being a Black male teacher in a primary school. Camron is now a Deputy Head in charge of Curriculum and Teaching & Learning. This episode is an honest discussion between Camron and Kalil about the challenges faced when you're Black male teacher trying to establish yourself professionally as well as advance your career into senior leadership. 
 
As always, connect directly with Kalil on Twitter @Kalil_R91

Being Authentic: The Sunday Breakfast Show With Caroline Keep

This morning we talked to Emma Darcy The Pearson National Teaching Award Digital Innovator of the Year on authenticity and what it means to be an authentic teacher. 
Things we reference in this mornings show: 
The Gifts of Imperfection: Brené Brown 
Professor Carolin Kreber University of Edinburgh - Lecturers’ and students’ conceptions of authenticity in teaching and actual teacher actions and attributes students perceive as helpful
The Late Late Show with Ed Finch and Toby https://www.ttradio.org/
 

TTR Special: A new school wants you!

In this special episode, Tom Rogers interviews Exec Head of Luxborough Court School in Essex, Rob James. Luxborough Court is a brand new school and is looking for new members of staff to build it! Find out more about the different roles available here: https://www.witherslackgroup.co.uk/news/luxborough-court-school/

Professional development in schools: The Twilight Show with Henry Sauntson

Henry is joined by special guest Holly Naismith to disappear down the rabbit holes of professional development, observation of practice, the power of informality and 'casual collisions', and some pretty niche references! Henry also looks at the latest School Workforce data and the RPPL Myths & Truths of Professional Learning. He quotes a lot too, as usual.

The Sound of Assemblies Past: The Morning Break with Holly King-Mand

Holly is joined by James Partridge, face and voice of Assembly Bangers on Instagram and TikTok. Come and try the assembly bangers intros quiz and listen to the conversation around the changes in traditional assembly music.

Toby’s Accidental Journey into Science: The Late Late Show with Toby P-C (solo this week)

Ed was missing in action this week, so Toby went solo with a few WiFi glitches.  After some post Jubilee dissemination and a bit of Twitter analysis, Toby shared his path into becoming a Scientist and some of his industry experiences before pitching a gap in the market science book for non-scientists to deepen and broaden subject knowledge and context beyond school - sitting between textbooks and curriculum documents and all the science encyclopaedias and popular science books found in any good bookshop...

A Pedagogy of Belonging: The Twilight Show With Harry Waters

ELT Superstar Tyson Seburn joins Harry for a second time. This time they talk all about #TeachWeBelong , why pride is still so important and how it can be used to help get Queering into ELT. 

School Refusal: The Twilight Show with Nathan Gynn

Discussion with Ellie Costello from Square Peg, a social enterprise to effect change for children who struggle to attend school and their families, along with Madalynne Roberts, a parent who has been affected by how schools deal with absence. #absence #ranxiety #attendance #SEND #schoolrefusal

Educational Change & Exploratory Action Research: The Morning Break with Graham Stanley

Graham was at the Educational World Forum in London recently and that made him think about educational change, at a system, national, local, school, and classroom level. After reflecting on this, Graham talks about Exploratory Action Research, which is a great way teachers can implement change in their own classrooms. The EAR Handbook is here, and Graham also mentions Champion Teachers: Stories from Mexico. The show finishes with an interview with Graham's parents and brother about their experiences of school and education. This show is also dedicated to Omar Rugerio, RIP, an inspiring Champion Teacher, who sadly passed away recently. 

Modern Foreign Languages Teaching: The Twilight Show with Maud

This is the 10th live show for Maud and she chose to talk about her passion for language teaching. It is only by promoting creativity and enriching the curriculum that teachers will be able to reduce the UK language deficit.
Maud's hope for 2022 is to increase the number of students choosing to study a foreign language for A levels.
Download the podcast to get tips on how to make language teaching more fun and efficient.