Teachers Talk Radio

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. 

What an we learn from Alternative Provision? What are the pros and cons of alternative provision? Join Ann as she is joined by George Baldock who left mainstream school at 11 to attend a pupil refferral unit. He is now studying history and politics at Cambridge University and is an avid campaiger for alternative proivision and SEND support. 

In this interesting episode, Poppy is joined by Dr Morgan Phillips. Poppy and Morgan contemplate whether our education system is serving our young people with regarding to preparation for their futures and the future of our planet. 

Equity in Education sets out a new equity-based approach in education to help teachers improve the prospects of under-resourced and working-class pupils. We are joined by Lee Elliot Major to talk about his new book ‘A practical guide for teachers - Equity in Education: Levelling the playing field of learning’ #equity #disadvantaged #workingclass #books

International English Language Testing System - what does it mean? How do teachers teach for it? What are the pitfalls?

Marie is joined by Cheryl Edwards, a CEO and chair of trustees, to discuss women in leadership; is gender still a barrier?

Tom is joined by Becky Allen, the co founder of Teacher Tapp, Simon Kidwell, President of the NAHT, Shivan Davies, English teacher and other callers too. They discuss the past, present and future of the schools inspectorate anticipating the end of the tenure of Amanda Spielman as chief inspector.

Join TTR hosts Paul Hazzard and Tom Rogers bringing you the highlights from their interviews at SAAS in Birmingham Wednesday 22nd November 2023. The podcast includes interviews with Sam Barrett on Artificial intelligence, Fergus and Claire on leading computing in state schools, Kerry Hinton on being the principal of an alternative provision school, Amman and Molly who are trainee History teachers, Tommy talks about being a deputy DSL, Darren White on Edtech, Vicky Dywer and Martin Crommelin who are headteachers of a school for the blind and a hospital school respectively. There is so much more than that on this podcast!  This show is brought to you in partnership with EtonX, you can find out more about them and get your students signed up for free here: https://etonx.com/

Christopher talks with author and musician David Bramwell about his primary school teaching days, the lessons of the Moomins Saga, and podcasting as public education.

Yasmin and Bagha plus lots of callers discuss the large numbers of children out of education and the reasons for it as well as an extensive focus on the debate around silent corridors.