Teachers Talk Radio

Sean chats to Katie in Illinois about how best to get quality writing out of students. She answers the question, what's the best reading to do to support writing.

Tom Rogers interviews Bridget Phillipson, the Shadow Secretary of State for Education. Questions include; the future of OFSTED, Behaviour in schools, funding for SEND, Bridget's own school experience and much more!

SEMH needs are on the rise yet schools often struggle to access high quality Alternative Provision. Services are definitely not equitable for those who need the most support. Join me as I talk to Grant Edgar who shares his thoughts on the issues around accessing AP,  how his school support the holistic development of students and some brilliant ideas on how to address inequity in the AP system and education as a whole. "Education is too important to leave to ideology"

This week in my quest to find out what schools are for, my guest is Isabella Aura. Isabella is a teacher, researcher, and lecturer in Tampere Finland. We discuss her study of a school in the USA that uses the Harry Potter books to become Hogwarts. We also discussed the role of storification, play, and games in schools.

Join Stephen for a wonderfully meandering journey through his teaching week. He gives his tips on some tools and apps that teachers could use to make their life easier, takes us on his canal walk, shares feedback he'd had from a recent lesson observation and makes us laugh a lot too! Join Stephen for another of his unmissable TTR shows! 

Join me, Emily Edwards, to discuss some of the most frustrating questions you could hear in a History lesson and how to banish those phrases to Room 101!

Tom Rogers is joined by a range of guests to discuss the key reasons for the decline in behaviour in schools. This show was driven by the evidence base around this - including surveys by the UK Government, NASUWT, Teacher Tapp and more that all cite increased levels of poor behaviour in schools. Amongst the reasons discussed are; Social Media, Phones, Parenting, Lack of support from parents, entitlement, lack of SEND support, curriculum, mental health crisis, increase in trauma, super strict schools, covid, lack of special schools and lower societal expectations. Guest callers include Katie Waissel, Adam Woodward, James Bickerstaff, Gulcin Sesli and many more! 

Host Rae, a former Head of Year, is joined by experienced Head of Year Jourdon to discuss (rant about) the joys and challenges (but mostly challenges) of pastoral work in education. Does the reward outweigh the misery? Different but honest answers provided. 

Nigel Caplan and I discuss the origins of the 5-paragraph essay, why it's a disservice to our students, and how we can change our teaching of (academic) writing.

Join Amanda and her guests, Jonny Mulholland and Neil Dillon, as they talk about how teachers at different stages of their careers can learn from and look out for each other.