Emma & Tom Talk Teaching

It's time for another live panel discussion, a format we conveniently discovered a few weeks before the coronavirus lockdown, and then had to wait three years to have another go at! Now we're making up for lost time with another one, live from the Newport City Campus of our friends, the University of South Wales. The National Professional Enquiry Project has been running in Wales for a number of years now, and today's episode comes from a conference celebrating the project. We're joined by Sian Sarwar from Cardiff Met, and Lisa Taylor (friend of the podcast!) and Dr Cath Jones from USW, to discuss experiences of enquiry. No live episode is complete without some audience Q&A at the end, too. Thanks to our hosts, USW, for looking after us, our audience and questioners, and to Gemma Mitchell for reprising her role as keeper of the microphone on a very long wire. -----------------------------------------------------------------Recorded live at the University of South Wales's Newport City campus on 6th July 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 Eloise Bennett yn trafod sut yr aeth ati i ddysgu mwy am rôl y Celfyddydau Mynegiannol, yn arbennig celf, wrth helpu plant ag anhwylder ar y sbectrwm awtistiaeth i ddelio gyda symptomau gorbryder. 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 welcome back a newly-doctorised (?) Elizabeth MacGregor to the podcast this week. Last time we spoke to Elizabeth we were all in the depths of Covid lockdown and she was embarking on her PhD. Now the results of that research are starting to appear in the form of articles, and Elizabeth is going from strength to strength as an academic having signed a book deal and started editing a journal!Elizabeth joins us down the line today from Cambridge to discuss her findings on musical vulnerability: the idea that music is uniquely-placed to affect people both semantically and somatically, and the implications of that for the classroom. Elizabeth tells us what she found out, what it means for us, and gives some golden tips for the next cohort of student teachers, whatever their subject specialism. Stick around for Elizabeth's book and podcast recommendations, too!You can read Dr Elizabeth's latest article (open-access) here.-----------------------------------------------------Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus, and remotely, on 19th June 2023

PGCE Research Bites is back for another run! Today, PGCE Art and Design student teacher Hannah Woodward joins Emma to discuss her work on developing pupils' oracy skills through supporting their vocabulary. Hannah spent her second placement in a special school setting, and this discussion covers how Hannah came to notice that her pupils were not all confident to speak in class, what she did about it, and what she learnt from the experience.You can watch the video of this discussion on our Professional Learning with the Cardiff Partnership YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@cardiffpartnershipThanks to Hannah for joining us to share her research!Our Welsh-language strand, Tameidiau o Ymchwil TAR returns in a fortnight.---------------------------------------------------------Recorded in studio B0.17 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 21st June 2023

Gareth Rein, headteacher of St Peter's RC Primary School, discusses using research to improve schools, challenges faced during a lockdown, collaborating with external support, creating an effective learning environment, fostering a culture of research-based practice, inquiry-based learning, use of scripted lessons, and tips for new student teachers.

Hello to all our listeners - we're in the middle of the podcast summer hiatus, and just checking in to reflect on the last year and look forward to the next. We're amazed to have completed five years of podcasting - thanks to everyone for listening! We've already got lots of goodies lined up for season 6, so please do tune in on the 8th of September.Enjoy the rest of the summer, and we'll be back soon!------------------------------------Recorded in studio B0.17 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 21st July 2023

We've reached the end of our fifth year of podcasting, so a huge thank you to everyone who's been along for the ride so far!Our final episode this year was recorded in front of a live (and very quiet!) audience of PGCE primary and PGCE secondary student teachers at the Cardiff Met PGCE Research Conference 2023. The theme of the session was how we can use research to help us make the new Curriculum for Wales a success. Our panel of experts in this episode is:Rebecca Roach from Central South ConsortiumCeri Prosser from St Teilo's Church in Wales High School in CardiffDr Kevin Smith from Cardiff UniversityRichard Jones from Welsh GovernmentEveryone on the stage has been a classroom teacher at some point during their career (and obviously Ceri still is!) and so the discussions about the place of research are firmly rooted in doing the best for the people who matter most: the pupils in our classrooms. After a five minute presentation each, our panel took questions from the audience. Even if you're not in Wales, we hope there's plenty of useful material to take away into your own context as we approach the end of another year. Thanks for listening, and best wishes from Emma and Tom----------------------Recorded live in lecture theatre 1 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 26th May 2023.

Rapidly attaining the status of podcasting legend, Dr Louise Allen-Walker returns to our studio for another fun-filled adventure in the world of neuroscience. Louise is the programme director for Cardiff Met's MSc Psychology in Education programme, and is therefore well-placed to give us some interesting psychological goodies to help us in our teaching practice, as well as to bust some more examples of neuroscience being used in ways that are confusing, inaccurate or just plain dodgy. Louise has brought along one of her favourite books: The Science of Learning: 99 studies every teacher needs to know. The book presents 99 two-page summaries of seminal studies and unpacks the implications for the classroom teacher in a highly accessible format - no psychology expertise required!In this episode, we discuss four studies which cover cognitive load, resilience, interaction with nature and the ominously-named 'seduction of neuroscience'. Louise also brings us something interesting and something to try, because you don't get to be a programme director without a serious commitment to doing your homework. Louise's first episode recorded down-the-line during Covid was memorable for an appearance by the infamous 'neuromyth van' outside her house (you'll have to listen to find out what we're on about). In her second she was challenged to bust as many neuromyths as she could against the clock. Will we come up with something else bizarre for Louise this time around? Listen in and find out!-----------------------------Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 15th May 2023

For today's research bite, Emma is in conversation with Danielle Kates from our PGCE Primary programme. Danielle was keen to investigate ways to improve her pupils' reading comprehension, so she carried out a review of literature in order to make recommendations for her placement schools and her own practice.You can download Danielle's summary of her research here, and you can watch the video version of this conversation on our YouTube channel.Thanks to Danielle for joining us to share her research!Danielle's sources were:Blything, L.P., Hardie, A. and Cain, K. (2020) ‘Question Asking During Reading Comprehension Instruction: A Corpus Study of How Question Type Influences the Linguistic Complexity of Primary School Students’ Responses’, Reading research quarterly, 55(3), pp. 443–472. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.279.Estyn (2021), English language and literacy insetting and primary schools. Available at: https://www.estyn.gov.wales/system/files/2022-01/Estyn%20English%20language%20and%20literacy%20E%289%29.pdfFilderman, M.J. et al. (2022) ‘A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Reading Comprehension Interventions on the Reading Comprehension Outcomes of Struggling Readers in Third Through 12th Grades’, Exceptional children, 88(2), pp. 163–184. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/00144029211050860.García, J.R. and Cain, K. (2014) ‘Decoding and Reading Comprehension: A Meta-Analysis to Identify Which Reader and Assessment Characteristics Influence the Strength of the Relationship in English’, Review of educational research, 84(1), pp. 74–111. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3102/0034654313499616.James, E. et al. (2021) ‘The relations between morphological awareness and reading comprehension in beginner readers to young adolescents’, Journal of research in reading, 44(1), pp. 110–130. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9817.12316.Logan, J. (2017) ‘Pressure Points in Reading Comprehension: A Quantile Multiple Regression Analysis’, Journal of educational psychology, 109(4), pp. 451–464. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000150.--------------------------------------------Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 31st March 2023.

We welcome Sioned Dafydd back to our studio today. Welsh-speaking listeners to the podcast will be very familiar with Sioned, and she has been working with Emma and Tom on a project to develop an understanding of how to support new members of the profession as they learn and develop.There's some discussion of the Professional Standards for Teaching and Leadership in Wales, but even for listeners outside the country, there's plenty to think about in terms of the processes and ways thinking that characterise new teachers as they learn.You can see the videos from the project at www.youtube.com/@sharedunderstanding--------------------------------------------------------------Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 18th April 2023