Teachers Talk Radio

Marie talks to Emily Sharpe about the various ways in which teachers can support deaf students. 

This week on The Weekly Review Lianne Lax and John Gibbs join Paul for discussion on the top stories from the week in education. This week's stories: Google and Selena Gomez partner to fund teen mental health in the classroom https://www.independent.co.uk/news/google-ap-selena-gomez-mental-health-united-states-b2595295.html Should we abolish exams? https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/aug/12/the-big-idea-should-we-get-rid-of-exams?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other Now pupils get AI maths and English lessons in 'teacherless classrooms' - but it can't do art and sex education... yet https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13731457/AI-maths-English-lessons-teacherless-classrooms-art-sex-education.html Shows Reviewed: Prison Education - Every bit as difficult, challenging, rewarding and essential as you thought: The Friday Morning Break with John Gibbs Lessons Learnt from the Olympics: Education Tonight with Hannah Wilson and Lucy Neuburger Critical skills to help students identify fake news and conspiracy theories?: The Late Show with Tom Rogers

Darren looks at the research into prior learning and thinks about why we need to be more deliberate about our elicitation of it in our teaching.

This week my guests are Cassie Edmiston and Paul Grady. We discuss the work of the Prison Education Trust and Paul's journey from prison to being a successful artist.

For one night only, Education Tonight features the dazzling dynamic duo, Lucy & Hannah, as they cast an eye over what we can learn from the Paris Olympics.

Can you teach critical thinking? Should you? What is fake news? How should we instruct students to handle online information? Should we? This is a far ranging debate featuring Claire Fox (Director of the Institute of Ideas), Dan Sohege (Director of Stand for All), Kirsty, Paul and Alistair (all classroom teachers) + some callers too.

Hannah Wilson, Lucy Neuburger, Kathryn Taylor and Brent Poland dissect the week's important news stories. Special educational needs system in England in ‘utter disarray’, says ombudsman After the riots: The role of schools in healing our communities How quality CPD could help solve the teacher recruitment crisis Shows of the week include: Education Tonight' interviews with Daniel Kebede and Matt Pinkett Nationwide riots - How should schools react? The Late Show with Tom Rogers Xander Lofts's debut show on The Saturday Social - The Next Five Years

Xander talks to Mark Ravenwood about teacher recruitment and retention under Labour’s educational initiatives, and why record numbers are both leaving the profession and failing to qualify. To what extent will the 20% VAT levied on independent schools affect the state sector? Will students with SEND be particularly vulnerable? And how can teachers best support students with additional requirements? Two Maths teachers share and compare ideas.

Amarbeer Singh Gill joins Jamie Clark for a conversation around strengthening the student toolbox as they explore the power of research based learning practices. 

Darren returns after a summer break with a dazzling show focused on feedback. Why do we give feedback? What are its uses? What are the best ways to give feedback?