Teachers Talk Radio

The Saturday Lunch with Joe Hammond 12-2-22: Singing and Songwriting with Emily Barden

Joe talks to singer/songwriter Emily Barden about all things singing, songwriting, music, music education, choirs, arts projects, Sing Up and more.

The Morning Break with Dorian Brown 11-02-22 - Powering up people with Bruce Robertson

Dorian is joined by the fantastic Bruce Robertson, author of The Teaching Delusion trilogy and we discuss how one can cultivate the conditions for high quality leadership and teaching and engender a culture of kaizen amongst the staff and student bodies.
Focusing on the ‘right things’ Bruce articulates concisely how PACE (Pedagogy, Attainment, Curriculum and Ethos) are the key areas to fertilise which have the capacity to bring up standards across the board. We talk about how teachers can hone in on specific elements of their teaching practice and work to ‘sharpen their saws’ through the use of ‘power up prompts’ and ‘trusted techniques’, all explored in depth in The Teaching Delusion 3.
I am always captivated when listening to Bruce, he has a real knack of explaining things simply, effectively and purposefully - I have no doubt that this is due to his knowledge, experience and expertise he has developed over time and I challenge you to listen to this and not feel energised and invigorated about powering up your leadership and/or teaching at your school!
Links from the show
Berwickshire High School website https://www.berwickshirehighschool.co.uk/ 
'Sense of direction' helps turn Berwickshire High School around https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-60045430 
Companion website to The Teaching Delusion trilogy https://theteachingdelusion.com/ 

TTR special - improving behaviour in schools

A near 2 hour bumper TTR show looking at how schools can improve behaviour, featuring contributions by Cassie Young, Sarah Johnson, Mohamed Patel, Dan Wright and many more. Hosts - Tom Rogers, Tom Hopkins-Burke and Nathan Gynn on behalf of Team TTR.
"Anyone working in a school that is struggling with behaviour? Listen to this!" Michelle Adams

The Late Late Show with Ed Finch & Toby P-C 09-02-22: Dreaming of an Edutopia

Another Toby diatribe about his skewed edutopia (including closing down the hand that feeds him!) and a complete re-evaluation of the structure of society; Ed's love for Edinburgh and three varied Winter walks.  Too much narcissism in Tweet(s) of the Week and a question about when we should measure the impact of education on an individual.  Plus the Cure on ukelele!

The Wednesday Late Show with Naureen Khalid 9-02-22: Cognitive Psychology with Blake Harvard

Naureen chats to Blake Harvard about cognition and psychology and how to apply these in the classroom to benefit students.
 
 

The Twilight Show with Nathan Gynn 09-02-22: Charity Challenges & World Class Education Systems

In the first half, Nathan is joined by Dan Chaplen and Jonathan Parker from St Matthew’s Primary who are preparing for a 950-mile charity cycle relay from Luton to London, Cardiff, Edinburgh and back. They share how this can impact a school community in more ways that just money. In the second half, Nathan is joined by Lucy Crehan, author of Cleverlands: The secret behind the success of the world’s education superpowers about what makes an education system world class… and what should be in the pipeline for the new Curriculum for Wales.

The Drive Home with Harry Waters 09-02-22: Everything EFL with Erin O’Byrne

We talk lexical chunks to teach grammar and all sorts of other exciting EFL classroom bits and pieces. 
Don't forget to give Erin a follow on @Everything_EFL

The Morning Break with Jane Ritter 09-02-22: Lifting as you climb: Reflecting on the Impact of Mentorship.

This morning I spoke to the amazing Laura McWilliams about her Career and busy life. She explained the importance of mentoring and the impact great mentoring has had on her life and work. If you would like to read more about the EVE - Africa ELTA projet she is working on here is the website: https://sites.google.com/view/africaelta-evefemaleleadership/home
Listen back to find out more.
Laura McWilliams has been an Academic Manager at British Council France, where she manages the courses for the Secondary lifestage, for almost five years. Her ELT journey has also led her to Italy and Egypt, and nowadays to the whole world through the magic of the internet. She is a TYLEC tutor, a DELTA local tutor and also delivers online training. In her free time, she also volunteers for the IATEFL Young Learners and Teenagers Special Interest Group and other ELT-related projects. Despite all her social media profile photos, she is not actually a panda.

The Late Late Show with Rich Wrigley 08-02-22: Toxic positivity

Rich explores the toxic positivity in education.

The Late Show with Libby Isaac 08-02-2022: Stephen Tierney, leading learner

Listen back to me talking to @leadinglearner, Stephen Tierney, we talk curriculum, professional development, leadership and much more. @TTRadio2022.