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Today we’re talking all things maths – as it’s something we’ve published quite a bit on this month. In this episode, we're going to run you through the highlights, including an article on the International Mathematical Modeling Challenge where we speak to the teacher advisors of the Australian winners about the benefits for students, and their own practice. As always, we will be posing questions throughout the episode so feel free to pause the audio, gather some colleagues, and chat about how these articles can be used to improve or inform your own practice. Host: Rebecca Vukovic

Music education is an important part of primary school. It’s got a range of benefits, of course, not only for students’ music learning, but for improving their capacity as a learner more broadly, and there are benefits for their wellbeing too. In Episode 101 of The Research Files we're joined by Dr Rebecca Taylor, a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Council for Educational Research. We’re going to be exploring survey data from 2 reports into music teaching and music education in primary schools – they’re all about the ‘what’, ‘when’, and ‘how’ music learning is delivered. Our chat certainly provides some food for thought in terms of what you’re doing in your own practice and maybe the supports that you need; if you’re a school leader, maybe what expertise exists within the staff and what their PD needs are. Host: Jo Earp Guest: Dr Rebecca Taylor

Last month we brought you news of a major OECD report on the state of global teenage career preparation. So, in this follow-up podcast we’re going to be sharing an example of how one school here in Australia – Fairhills High School in Victoria – is doing some great work in the area of careers and pathways education. Host: Jo Earp Guests: Bill Exton, Liz Rundle

We’ve reached the penultimate episode of Series 3 of our podcast series School Assembly. Teacher editor Jo Earp talks to Notre Dame P-12 College Principal Dan McShea about distributed leadership and developing a leadership pipeline in a new school. Dan also shares his biggest challenge, key learning and proudest achievement since last month’s episode. Host: Jo Earp Guest: Dan McShea

To celebrate our 100th episode of The Research Files podcast series, the team at Teacher have delved into the archives to choose clips from our favourite episodes. In this very special episode, you hear from your regular hosts Jo Earp, Rebecca Vukovic and Dominique Russell, as well as and a whole lot of guests including researchers, teachers and school leaders. Hosts: Jo Earp, Rebecca Vukovic, Dominique Russell Sponsor: This podcast from Teacher is supported by Sora, the student reading platform that provides access to curriculum and popular digital books for schools. Learn more at discoverSora.com/global.

It has been an exciting month here at Teacher magazine because we launched our new monthly themes. In this Teacher Staffroom podcast, I’ll take you through our theme for May. I’ll also run you through some of the highlights from our editorial, including 2 pieces on the topic of AI, and chat about a new report by the Australian Council for Educational Research that explores teacher self-efficacy in classroom management. Host: Rebecca Vukovic Sponsor: This podcast from Teacher is supported by Sora, the student reading platform that provides access to curriculum and popular digital books for schools. Learn more at discoverSora.com/global.

In this episode of The Research Files podcast, Teacher editor Jo Earp chats to Jenni Ingram, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, about the OECD’s Unlocking High-Quality Teaching report. Alongside insights from 150 schools in 50 countries, it explores 20 practices that teachers draw on to achieve 5 key teaching goals. Host: Jo Earp Guest: Professor Jenni Ingram

This episode of School Assembly is all about professional learning. Our Series 3 Principal Dan McShea joins us from Queensland's Notre Dame P-12 College to share how it links back to strategic planning and key teaching and learning documents. We'll also find out about his biggest challenge, key learning and proudest achievement since we caught up last. Host: Jo Earp Guest: Dan McShea Sponsor: Monash University

There’s so much potential for artificial intelligence and generative AI tools to support teaching and learning, but alongside these exciting opportunities there are challenges and risks. If you’re a teacher or a school leader, you may already be using or experimenting with AI tools – and you certainly won’t be surprised to hear that many of your students definitely are! Our guest for this special episode is Dr Katie Richardson, Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Council for Educational Research. We’ll be talking about 3 broad areas where AI can enable improvements in education, and what that might look like. Also, what the tools can and can’t do currently, or replace. And we’ll discuss how teachers need to be careful and purposeful in using the different AI tools out there with their students to promote thinking and learning. Host: Jo Earp Guest: Dr Katie Richardson

What made you decide to become a teacher? We’ve been looking at teacher recruitment this month, but perhaps from a different lens that you might think. In this episode, you’ll hear about what young people are saying about teaching as a career, how much schools in Australia are growing year on year, and more. Host: Dominique Russell Sponsor: This podcast from Teacher is supported by Sora, the student reading platform that provides access to curriculum and popular digital books for schools. Learn more at discoverSora.com/global.