TandTeaching - The Educational Podcast

Part 1 In this episode of TandTeaching Arthur chats about Child Agency with Dominic Wyse and Yana Manyukhina from IOE - UCL's Faculty of Education and Society. What is Child Agency? Is it a new thing? Why should we care about it as educators? What have Dom and Yana been looking into? Dominic Wyse Dominic is Professor of Early Childhood and Primary Education at the Institute of Education (IOE), University College London (UCL). He is the Founding Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy (0-11 years) (HHCP) a research centre with a focus on primary and early years education and was President of the British Educational Research Association (BERA) from 2019 to 2022. Yana Manyukhina Yana is Senior Researcher at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy 0-11 years (HHCP) with a strong association with Child Agency - - - NOTES for further Reading Blogpost (10 April 2019): What next for curriculum? https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/what-next-for-curriculum   Blogpost (14October 2021): Living and learning during a pandemic: what can children tell us? https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2021/10/14/living-and-learning-during-a-pandemic-what-can-children-tell-us/   News story (6December 2021) including the link to the conference keynote talks (June 2021) which were held under the theme: ‘Children’s Agency and the Curriculum’ in collaboration with the Education Learning Trust (ELT) and the Association for the Study of Primary Education (ASPE): https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2021/dec/helen-hamlyn-centre-pedagogy-puts-spotlight-childrens-agency-and-curriculum https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiIYJpyo9fmv_5x6IJWKy3ihqH95Vqz0f   Blogpost (1st March 2021): Children’s agency: What is it, and what should be done? https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/childrens-agency-what-is-it-and-what-should-be-done Animation video about children’s agency (2023): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RF2-VVxpAg - - -

In this episode we speak with Oonagh Jaquest from BBC Bitesize about how the revision platform is evolving and how we can best use this resource with our students.

We speak to Andy Griffith, author of The Working Classroom, about the needs of working class students in education and how we can support them. You can get 'The Working Classroom' here https://amzn.to/3U2GKD1 Written by Matt Bromley and Andy Griffith, The Working Classroom: How to make school work for working-class students offers practical strategies and tools to help secondary schools address the needs of working-class students, including by building cultural capital and designing more engaging learning. Schools do amazing work to support children from disadvantaged backgrounds. But this book will enable them to do more. Disadvantage comes in many forms, but cultural poverty, where some students have relative knowledge gaps compared with their more affluent peers, can be addressed successfully by schools. The Working Classroom explores how working-class students are disadvantaged by a flawed system and what schools can do to close the gap. And find out more here https://theworkingclassroom.co.uk/

The BBC's Other Side of The Story is all about helping students 'cut through the noise' and 'discover more about misinformation, fake news and how to understand and deal with everything from algorithms and unconscious bias to echo chambers'. I'm chatting with Executive Producer Andrew Swanson about it and the amazing resources they have. Learn more about the Other Side of the Story here https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/groups/c0rx3447znvt

The Schools Consent Project aims to normalise conversations about consent in order to encourage safe, healthy interactions and reduce the likelihood of young people experiencing - or perpetrating - sexual harm. For nearly a decade, they have worked in schools across the UK – successfully educating over 40,000 young people through our network of +260 lawyers. Their lawyer-led workshops explore the legal definition of consent, the age of consent, key sexual offences, online offences & how to check for and communicate consent. The ⁠Schools Consent Project want to give young people an ability to identify their boundaries and the boundaries in others, to understand the harms of sexually abusive behaviour, and to feel confident speaking up. Find out more https://www.schoolsconsentproject.com/

This week Arthur chats with former Blue Peter presenters Simon Thomas and Konnie Huq who have rejoined forces for a new content series for Talking Futures, a free online resource that helps parents talk to 11-18 years olds about their future education and career options.   The new series titled ‘Earn Your Badge’ features Konnie and Simon tackling famous tasks such as the creation of Tracey Island whilst sharing guidance and tips on how to have better conversations with teens about careers and education. Parents and educators can find out more and access free resources, such as the Earn Your Badge content and the new chatbot tool, by visiting: https://www.talkingfutures.org.uk/ https://www.talkingfutures.org.uk/earn-your-badge/

We listen to a teaching tip from Sam Crome about how to put team learning at the heart of your team meetings. We discuss our experiences of this and how to can be implemented in our every day practice as teachers.

World Book Day 2024 – Live Lesson Thursday 7th March 2024, 11:00 Calling all primary schools! BBC Teach will be marking World Book Day with a Live Lesson celebrating reading for pleasure. Hosts Maddie Moate and Joe Tasker will be joined by authors, Alex Falase-Koya, Dr Sheila Kanani and Rosie Jones as well as official World Book Day illustrator, Vivian Truong. Together, they will be creating a pop-up library to celebrate the books we all love. Email live.lessons@bbc.co.uk with World Book Day as the subject for a chance of a live shout-out for your school. For more information, please visit https://bit.ly/3SlFag6

We welcome back Emma Sheppard from the MTPT charity to discuss whether teaching can be a sustainable career in the long run. Check out the MTPT here: https://www.mtpt.org.uk/ #edupod

In this episode we speak to the founders of Cargo Movement, Lawrence Hoo and Charles Golding about how their organisation is bringing stories into classrooms about the contributions and visionary leadership of individuals of African and African Diaspora descent. Find out more about them here https://cargomovement.org/