Emma & Tom Talk Teaching

Merry Christmas one and all! Yet again we find ourselves between Christmas and New Year, hopefully enjoying a well-earned break. And for the sixth time we have entered the studio with a total of twelve (one for each day of Christmas) weird and wonderful gifts for our listeners. This year we have everything from poetry to scary sounds, from the joys of solitude to a nostalgic unsung hero of music, to join you while you recharge the batteries or set out on some nice long walks to blow away the cobwebs. We hope you enjoy this extra-long light episode, and wish you all the best for a restful break and a happy new year. You can watch us recording this episode on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/DLhu7LRIq88 - and we make good use of the shiny new big screen, so if you haven't checked out our vide versions yet, take a look!PS - we have truncated Anna Lapwood's recording from the Albert Hall to try and stay on the right side of 'fair use' copyright provisions. If you want to hear the whole thing, you can watch on YouTube here.Best wishes from Emma & Tom ---------------------------------------Recorded in studio B2.15 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 13th December 2023

As an initial teacher education (ITE) institution, we spend a lot of our time thinking about mentoring student teachers, especially how to support our school-based colleagues who undertake this vital role. Our colleagues in the regional school improvement consortia think about it too, especially with their responsibility for mentoring newly-qualified teachers (NQTs). One consortium, Central South Consortium, carried out an appreciative enquiry to try and get hold of the very best mentoring practice out there in South Wales, and that's what we're talking about in today's episode. Joining us in the studio are Lucy Donovan from CSC, and Sharne Watkins from Cardiff Met. What is an appreciative enquiry? How can I be a great mentor? Is mentoring student teachers and NQTs different? Have a listen and find out, and then get yourself straight to the CSC website to have a read!You can listen to this episode wherever you get your podcasts, or watch us in action on our YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@talkteachingpodPodcast artwork: Beth Blandford (blandoodles)Music: Cameron StewartEditor: Tom BreezeStudio Manager: Adrian Rapps---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Recorded in studio B2.15 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed campus on 11th November 2023.

We break new ground for the podcast today by having two guests from His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC)! HMRC are the organisation who administer tax in the UK, and a little known fact about them is that they have volunteers who go into schools to deliver HMRC's very own programme of lessons all about tax - Tax Facts!We're very grateful to Amy Healey and Heather Hughes from HMRC who joined us in person and down-the-line from Newcastle to talk about the programme and what's involved. Thanks also to our very own Cameron Stewart, programme leader for PGCE Secondary Maths, who joined us to reflect on what this means for schools here in Wales who'd like to use external organisations to add a new angle to the subject of maths.If you'd like a Tax Facts ambassador to visit, you can email hmrc.taxeducation@hmrc.gov.uk or visit the Tax Facts page on the gov.uk website.We'll be back in two weeks - see you then!------------------------------------Recorded in studio D0.18 on 14th August 2023 (HMRC discussion) and studio B2.15 on 29th September 2023 (Cameron Stewart discussion)

 Mae Tameidiau o Ymchwil TAR yn cyflwyno ymchwil gorau myfyrwyr ar gyrsiau Addysg Gychwynnol i Athrawon gyda Phartneriaeth Caerdydd. Yn y bennod hon mae Martha Morse (TAR Uwchradd Cymraeg) yn trafod sut yr aeth ati i ddysgu mwy am strategaethau cefnogi ac ymestyn disgyblion Mwy Abl a Thalentog mewn Ieithoedd. Gallwch hefyd wrando ar Tameidiau o Ymchwil TAR ar ffurf glywedol drwy danysgrifio i bodlediadau Emma and Tom Talk Teaching, ar gael ar blatfformau cyffredin podlediadau.Gallwch wylio'r bennod hon ar YouTube - youtube.com/@cardiffpartnership

We're back from half term with a few changes - Emma's got married and now has a shiny new surname, and we've moved in to our very swish podcast studio. That means you can watch us making the podcast by going to youtube.com/@talkteachingpod and also means that we owe some grateful thanks to our new friends at Cardiff Met's BSc and MSc Sports Broadcast programmes for their support in designing and equipping the studio we now share with them and their students.Today, we're talking about an important article for those of us who look after student teachers. Kriewaldt and Turnage published Conceptualising an approach to clinical reasoning in the education profession in 2013, and today we discuss what the article tells us, and the tools it provides to enrich mentor/student dialogue on placement.If you want to read the article yourself you can go here.Podcast artwork: Beth Blandford (blandoodles)Music: Cameron StewartEditor: Tom BreezeStudio Manager: Adrian Rapps---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Recorded in studio B2.15 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed campus on 26th October 2023.

For our final English-language research bite of this block, Tom is joined by PGCE Secondary RE student (and now NQT teaching four different subjects!) Bethany Maunders. For her second assignment, Bethany looked into how to challenge her more able pupils without just piling more and more work onto them. She settled on the idea of oracy as a skill to stretch her strongest pupils, and found that concentrating on this as an intervention had benefits for all her pupils. Thanks to Bethany for joining us for this episode, and don't forget you can watch all our research bites on our YouTube channel: www.YouTube.com/@cardiffpartnership --------------------------------------------------Recorded in studio B0.17 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 7th July 2023

Welcome to another of our specials where we let our hair down and have some fun with a bunch of random items culled from the furthest corners of the internet!From academic research to musings about email etiquette, we've got it all for you, and we hope you enjoy our chat.As ever, we'll be back in a fortnight with our normal service!You can find more from our choices here:BERA Blog: ‘Being well’ and ‘doing well’: Exploring the relationship between student and teacher wellbeingStatues: Articles by James Marriott and Oliver MoodyChristopher Nolan: Desert Island DiscsEmail signatures: Harming the environment?!Michael Rosen: Guide to EducationVoices: Quentin Letts's political sketch, Video of Glenda Jackson, Janan Ganesh on Voice Privilege---------------------------------------------------Recorded in studio D0.18 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 15th August 2023

Mae Tameidiau o Ymchwil TAR yn cyflwyno ymchwil gorau myfyrwyr ar gyrsiau Addysg Gychwynnol i Athrawon gyda Phartneriaeth Caerdydd. Yn y bennod hon mae Mari Price (TAR Uwchradd Cymraeg) yn trafod sut yr aeth ati i ddysgu mwy am strategaethau cefnogi ac ymestyn sgiliau llafar disgyblion, gan ffocysu ar egwyddorion Llais 21 / Ein Llais ni yn y sector uwchradd cyfrwng Cymraeg. Gallwch hefyd wrando ar Tameidiau o Ymchwil TAR ar ffurf glywedol drwy danysgrifio i bodlediadau Emma and Tom Talk Teaching, ar gael ar blatfformau cyffredin podlediadau.Gallwch wylio'r bennod hon ar YouTube - youtube.com/@cardiffpartnership

It's a welcome return to the podcast for Dr Kevin Smith from Cardiff University this week. Dr Kev has done sterling work on our live panel discussions, as well as previously joining us from the depths of coronavirus lockdown, when it emerged that Dr Kev was keeping busy formulating a curriculum of salsa (you had to be there) as Tom battled to keep the lines working from his shed to Emma and Dr Kev's respective houses while leaning on the inside of the door to stop his children from breaking in during the recording. Ah, lockdown... we don't miss you here in podcast land. Happily, Dr Kev and his impressive collection of tattoos have joined us in person in our temporary podcast studio for this recording, in which we discuss how we can recognise, develop and articulate our personal philosophies of education. This helps us when we need to try and assimilate books by various edu-celebs, advice from colleagues and edicts from our bosses into a teaching practice that fits with our own epistemological, ontological, axiological and ethical position while also (quite importantly) doing the right thing by the kids. Dr. Kev has lots of advice, theorists, book recommendations and stories to help us on our journey, and also has a good go at making the very long words in the paragraph above accessible to all of us. Dr Kev, we salute you!-----------------------------------Recorded in studio B0.17 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 2nd August 2023

We welcome Christy Scott back to Research Bites, noting that she is only the second student teacher to make two appearances during her PGCE. Congratulations, Christy!For her second assignment, Christy was keen to find out what strategies she could put in place in her primary school classroom to try and foster a more positive, motivated attitude towards maths in her pupils. A keen advocate of maths herself, Christy was sad to find that her pupils didn't share her enthusiasm, that maths anxiety was a significant issue for her pupils, and that there was a significant gender gap in pupils' feelings about the subject.Following a review of the literature, Christy settled on the use of play to help modify her pupils' feelings about maths while also improving their knowledge.Thanks to Christy for joining us again to share her research!Finally, don't forward that you can watch this discussion in video form by going to the Professional Learning with the Cardiff Partnership channel at www.youtube.com/@cardiffpartnership-----------------------------------------------------------Recorded in studio B0.17 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 27th June 2023.