Teachers Talk Radio

My guest this week is Professor Gwyn Bevan, Emeritus Professor of policy analysis and former head of the Department of Management at the London School of Economics. Gwyn has served on may advisory committees, written extensively and is an expert on public policy in the delivery of health, the police and education. We discuss his latest work on the history of public policy which he describes in his latest book as a 'century of systematic failure,.

Tom Rogers takes callers giving immediate reaction to todays outcome from the inquest into the death of Ruth Perry. Guest speakers include Dave McPartlin, Ross McGill, Stephen Tierney, Hannah Wilson, Rupert Higham and more.

Tom Rogers talks toxic schools; what is a toxic school? How do you know if you work in one? What should you do if you do?  Tom is joined by two brilliant guests; 'Miss B' and 'Mr X' (appearing anonymously) who share their experiences of working in toxic schools and how they moved on thereafter. Both found schools that had better cultures, and thrived. Both offer advice and guidance to colleagues stuck in toxic environments.

Join me, Emily Edwards, to discuss the hotly debated question of what to do in the classroom as we build up to the end of term and the Christmas holidays.

The “social contract” between families and schools: is it broken? Discussion between @Brent Poland & @Adam Spence and guests.

Host Rae and guest Dave, a teacher and Head of Year in the Midlands, discuss engaging boys in their learning from a teaching and pastoral perspective--including the challenges of building aspiration, resilience and confidence inside and outside of the classroom, and the value of a relational approach. 

In this episode, Luis and I discuss what social emotional learning (SEL) is and share some techniques that help make our classrooms become learning communities and safe spaces for our learners.

Jane Green, MBE, talks to Kathryn Taylor about neurodivergence in education.

Claire Vaughan joins me from Patagonia, Argentina, for a conversation about her work mentoring teachers and teaching Welsh. Claire has been living and teaching Welsh there for the last 18 years, thanks to a unique programme that supports the Argentine-Welsh community that began in 1865 when people from Wales first travelled to the region.

In this episode I talk to Shelley Francis, an English teacher and Literacy Coordinator based in North Wales. She has been working with her feeder primary schools to create a framework for the teaching and assessment of writing across the transition and we talk about how to bridge the writing gap between KS2 and KS3, how important writing is and how to teach great writing.