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Mathematips: September - Dr Debbie Morgan
September 26, 2019 09:38 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBLucy Rycroft-Smith talks to the mathematical mastermind about units, algorithms and Numberblocks See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Podagogy - Season 7, Episode 3 - What teachers need to know about peer influence, with Professor Brett Laursen
September 25, 2019 04:00 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBIf you want good behaviour in every secondary classroom, the current mantra suggests that creating whole school norms - rigorously enforced through routine, rules and modelling - is the best way of going about it. But how realistic is it that a school can enforce a norm upon a diverse and friendship-seeking group of teens? “Well, it is a realistic starting point,” says (http://psy2.fau.edu/~laursen/), professor of psychology at Florida Atlantic University, and editor in chief of the Intern...
Podcast: Using quizzing to boost English engagement (sponsored)
September 19, 2019 22:00 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBLow-stakes testing can be a great way to engage pupils, especially in English where pupils can sometimes struggle to be motivated by the texts they have to study. But what sort of content should you include in such a test? Is it best to focus on the facts and details of the piece being studied, or the wider literary themes and concepts? And how do you use the results to inform any future teaching? To get some thoughts on these issues and much more, Tes spoke with English teachers Lauran Ham...
News - 19 September - Labour, wellbeing and early years
September 19, 2019 15:17 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBJoin the Tes team as we discuss plans for the abolition of Ofsted, Sats and private schools. We also talk about strategies for promoting teacher wellbeing as well as proposed changes to early years foundation stage... ...and we take "a fresh angle" on a news story about how a new-look protractor might help pupils in maths. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Leadership Podcast: Don't leave new leaders to suffer in silence
September 19, 2019 11:23 - 31 minutes - 29 MBThere’s a tendency to assume newly promoted staff are on top of everything, says Claire Stoneman, but they need support to flourish See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Podcast: How to set a great MFL quiz (sponsored)
September 18, 2019 13:00 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBGetting children engaged in languages can be tough, especially if they lack confidence in their abilities. Low-stakes testing can be a great way to tackle this, though, by boosting confidence and showing them how much they know. It can also be a useful way to embed vocabulary, grammar and syntax rules to complement existing lessons plans. However, deriving these benefits requires thought from teachers on how best to structure a quiz, the content that needs particularly focus and picking up o...
Podagogy - Season 7, Episode 2 - social mobility with Lee Elliot Major
September 17, 2019 13:23 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBCould Bananarama be the answer to social mobility? Lee Elliot Major, the UK’s first professor of social mobility, explores the systemic issues holding back the country’s young people, and how a bit of Bananarama can help their teachers improve attainment See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
The Tes Behaviour podcast - Episode 1 - what being 'strict' should look like in schools, with Jo Facer
September 15, 2019 04:00 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBTes content writer Grainne Hallahan talks to headteacher Jo Facer about what 'strict' should look like in schools. Jo discusses why behaviour policies have to be reactive to a school's local community and context, and she talks about her experiences of different behaviour management approaches. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
The Tes FE podcast with NACRO's principal, Lisa Capper
September 13, 2019 14:27 - 19 minutes - 8.94 MBLisa Capper, principal of Nacro the social justice charity, joins Sarah Simons to share the approach to educating learners facing life's toughest challenges. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 12 September - Ofsted on behaviour and GCSE English
September 12, 2019 15:40 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBJoin the Tes team as we discuss GCSE English being "unfit fit for purpose" and the OECD's annual Education at a Glance report. We also talks about Ofsted's plans to inspect how well teacher training providers prepare new teachers for managing behaviour, and education minister Nick Gibb taking over the early years remit at the DfE. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Podagogy - Season 7, Episode 1 - project-based learning with Professor Pam Grossman
September 11, 2019 04:00 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBA lot of what you think you know about project based learning (PBL) is likely to be wrong, according to Professor Pam Grossman, Dean of the graduate school of education at the University of Pennsylvania. In this episode, she explains that this approach to teaching suffers from a wide range of misconceptions, mostly because no-one has really agreed what PBL is and reveals how to do it well. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 5 September- New funding and starting the new year
September 05, 2019 15:41 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MBJoin the Tes editorial team as we discuss ways to approach the new school year, and the idea of introducing a grade 10 for the very top achievement at GCSE – not to mention the government’s extra £7.1 billion funding for schools, and our exclusive interview with education secretary Gavin Williamson. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
How to deliver the ultimate school induction (sponsored)
September 01, 2019 18:00 - 27 minutes - 25 MBWhen one in three teachers leave UK state schools within the first five years, it’s clear that getting off on the right foot is important. That’s why our podcast guests both see the school induction as a valuable tool in tackling wellbeing. In the international setting, where teachers may also be new to the country, this becomes even more vital. We speak to Liz Cloke, head of Secondary at Tenby International School in Penang, about how she helps induct new teachers into the school community...
Dfe leak and what it really means for schools: Tes Podcast
August 28, 2019 15:30 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBTes deputy editor Ed Dorrell and news editor William Stewart discuss the leaked DfE document and what it means for schools and teachers across the country. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
GCSE results day 2019: Tes podcast
August 22, 2019 15:50 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MBA special edition of education's favourite policy podcast Join the Tes team for a special podcast analysing GCSE results day 2019. We explore the gender gap, the rise in language entries, and the national reference test, among other topics, and take a comical look at film titles to do with GCSEs. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
A-level results day 2019: Tes podcast
August 15, 2019 16:22 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBJoin the Tes team for a special podcast analysing A-level results day 2019. We explore reasons for the drop in English entries, how more girls than boys took science subjects, and how Spanish has overtaken French as the most popular modern foreign language. We also examine a startling announcement from exams regulator Ofqual about A-level maths in 2018. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
What really works when it comes to wellbeing? With Jo Steer (sponsored)
July 21, 2019 05:30 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBTeacher wellbeing: is it the remedy to education's retention issues, or just another box-ticking exercise? The topic is front and centre in the sector right now, but it’s difficult to know which methods are effective. Jo Steer suffered burnout as a teacher and is now an expert on wellbeing. In this podcast she explains why wellbeing needs to be embedded in every part of a school, and shouldn’t be a used as a sticking plaster. This podcast was produced in association with Staff Pulse (http...
News - 19 July - Hinds, menopause, and the end of the year
July 19, 2019 07:14 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBJoin the Tes team as we discuss our end-of-year interview with education secretary Damian Hinds, and why schools need to help female staff going through the menopause. We also discuss the bitter-sweet mix of emotions experienced by teachers across the land as they say their final farewell to pupils that they have known for years. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Tes English Podcast - July - How to improve writing in secondary
July 16, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 68.3 MBThe perfect English classroom would surely involve our students keen and interested in writing regularly. It would see precise and careful writers, who take full responsibility to proof read carefully and have a confident understanding of the rules of grammar. So how do we do just that? On this month’s Tes English podcast, Chris Curtis, head of English in a secondary school and author of How to Teach English: Novels, Non-Fiction and their Artful Navigation, provides listeners with guidance ...
News - 12 July - Sats and bereavement
July 12, 2019 08:00 - 17 minutes - 16 MBJoin the Tes team as we discuss what we have learned from the release of England-wide Sats results this week. We also discuss how schools can respond to the death of a parent, pupil or teacher. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Podagogy - Season 6, Episode 10 - behaviour and social, emotional and mental health with Alice Jones
July 10, 2019 04:00 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBDr Alice Jones explores the causes, symptoms and impact of social and emotional difficulties in young people, and looks at how schools can create environments that best support them See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 5 July - Off-rolling and research
July 05, 2019 15:17 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MBJoin the Tes team as we discuss new concerns about off-rolling. We also talk about how schools can best use research to inform their practice. Tune in and enjoy! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Making the move from TA to teacher with Rob Webster (sponsored)
July 04, 2019 09:00 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBWith schools struggling to recruit and teacher training targets being regularly missed, the TA workforce is surely a resource to be utilised. With over 260,000 TAs in the UK (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2018) , upskilling just a fraction of these experienced classroom aficionados would help stem the shortage. So what’s the catch? We speak to UCL Institute of Education’s Rob Webster, who leads the Maximising the Impact of Teaching Assistants...
Podagogy - Season 6, Episode 9 - physical learning with professor Trevor Marchand and Kester Brewin
July 03, 2019 03:00 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MB“There is a perception from top to bottom that doing things on paper, doing conceptual thinking, is at the apex of everything, that this is where you want to be,” muses Trevor H J Marchand, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS London. “Working with your hands is seen as something for kids who did not quite make it in the classroom." Speaking on this episode, he explains that this needs to change, urgently. “We need to broaden our understanding of what ...
News - 28 June - Teacher workforce and primary play
June 27, 2019 15:25 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MBJoin the team as we discuss new government data about the teaching workforce in England. We also hear about primary schools that are using aspects of the early years foundation stage with older age groups. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Podagogy - Season 6, Episode 8 - mental health and primary schools with Dr Wendy Sims-Schouten
June 26, 2019 04:00 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBDo we know enough about the early signs of mental health problems that emerge in childhood? And how best can schools support young people with mental health issues? Dr Wendy Sims-Schouten, associate professor in childhood studies at the University of Portsmouth and head of the mental health in childhood and education research group, discusses these issues and more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 21 June - Teachers and peer-on-peer abuse
June 21, 2019 13:14 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MBJoin the Tes team as we discuss the findings of a major five-yearly international survey of teachers' working lives. We also consider the support and advice given to schools when one of their pupils has been sexually assaulted by another pupil. Tune in. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Podagogy - Season 6, Episode 7 - how we learn to count, with professor Daniel Ansari
June 19, 2019 04:00 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBAre we born with an innate sense of number? Or is it something we develop? And how best should we be teaching young children to count? Daniel Ansari is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, where he heads the Numerical Cognition Laboratory, and in this episode he answers these questions and more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 14 June - LGBT, off-rolling and Ofsted's future
June 14, 2019 13:53 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MBJoin the Tes team as we discuss how teachers have been affected by vocal protests about LGBT issues outside the school gates. We also discuss plans to name and shame schools suspected of off-rolling pupils, and hear how Labour is working on major reforms to school inspection. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Podagogy - Season 6, Episode 6 - 'Unteachable' pupils with Dr Simon Edwards
June 12, 2019 04:00 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MB“The notion of an unteachable child, that is nonsense,” says Dr Simon Edwards, senior lecturer at youth studies at the University of Portsmouth. “There is no such thing.” Edwards’ view comes from extensive experience: he has worked across the education spectrum, from mainstream teacher, to being a teacher in AP and now as a researcher working with children deemed even too tough for pupil referral units. Speaking on this week’s Tes Podagogy, he talks at length about why children get excluded,...
Mathematips - June - Helen Drury
June 09, 2019 22:00 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBThe idea of a triangle is a 'generality' - what can we change about it (such as turning it around so it's not on its "big fat bottom") but still keep its 'triangle-ness'? For this episode, Lucy Rycroft-Smith sits down with Helen Drury, founder and director of Mathematics Mastery, a non profit school improvement programme, to discuss generality in maths. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 7 June - Tory leadership, LGBT and GCSE fake news
June 07, 2019 14:32 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBJoin the Tes team as we discuss whether the Tory leadership race is good news for schools facing a funding squeeze. We also hear how the DfE has made its most forceful intervention yet on LGBT protests outside schools, and find out why fake news about GCSEs is piling more pressure on pupils. Tune in and enjoy! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Podagogy - Season 6, Episode 5 - Transition with professors Dave Trotman and Stan Tucker
June 05, 2019 08:30 - 42 minutes - 39 MBEvery teacher knows transition is an issue. Not just between primary and secondary but between phases, sectors or even year groups. And the research is clear that there is an issue, too. Problems of transition can completely derail a child’s education, according to Stan Tucker and Dave Trotman, both professors of education policy at Newman University and the guests on this week’s Tes Podagogy. Both academics believe the problem is not down to schools not trying to bridge the gap, or not un...
News - 31 May - Teacher recruitment and school data
May 31, 2019 13:54 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBJoin the Tes team as we discuss warnings that schools could soon be engulfed in scandals about their pupils' data. We also ask what a controversial recommendation not to give more teaching roles priority for visas means for the teacher recruitment crisis. And we consider concerns that dividing the academic and pastoral aspects of teaching may be misguided. Tune in and enjoy! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Podagogy - Season 6, Episode 4 - strategies for children born pre-term with Professor Samantha Johnson
May 22, 2019 04:00 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MBIn every classroom, there are likely to be at least three children who were born pre-term. And according to Professor Samantha Johnson (https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/health-sciences/research/timms/staff-pages/samantha-johnson) , those children may be missing out on vital support, due to a dearth of knowledge in schools about the challenges these pupils might face and a lack of identification of the children who may be affected. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Podagogy - Season 6, Episode 3 - behind the GCSE exams with Professor Jo-Anne Baird
May 15, 2019 04:00 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBThe shift away from modular exams was hailed as a move towards higher standards and an end of gaming the system. But did it work? We talk to Professor Jo-Anne Baird, director of the University of Oxford’s Department of Education and expert in educational assessment See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 10 May - Sats and mental health
May 10, 2019 08:22 - 15 minutes - 14 MBJoin the Tes team as we discuss different approaches primary schools take to prepare their pupils for Sats. We also talk about this week's series of stories that have examined mental health and Camhs services. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Podagogy - Season 6, Episode 2 - Comprehension with professor Jane Oakhill
May 08, 2019 04:00 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MBOne of the world's leading experts on the teaching of inference and comprehension explains why schools need to take a fresh look at what they do, moving from a simplistic way of teaching knowledge and vocabulary to also supporting the development of skills See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 7 May - Timpson Review of exclusions
May 07, 2019 15:13 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBJoin the Tes team for a special podcast as we discuss Edward Timpson's landmark review of school exclusions. We outline some of his main recommendations, ask what he left out, and consider whether it will be implemented. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Mathematips - May - Ems Lord
May 06, 2019 03:50 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBIn the latest episode of Tes' Mathematips podcast, Lucy Rycroft-Smith talks to Ems Lord about collaboration, mathematical thinking and the power of tinkering See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 3 May - Sats, academies and mindfulness
May 03, 2019 15:17 - 18 minutes - 16.5 MBJoin the Tes team as we discuss what Labour could be planning to replace Sats with if they formed the next government. We also talk about new concerns over academy secrecy, and find out why schools that use mindfulness to help their staff may be doing more harm than good. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 26 April - Exclusions, grammar schools and games
April 26, 2019 15:53 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MBJoin the Tes team as we discuss why the long-awaited Timpson Review of school exclusions still has not been published. We also talk about this week's protest about the baseline assessment for children in Reception, and ask whether teachers should use games in their lessons. Tune in and enjoy! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Further - 24 April 2019 - Why pit knowledge against skills?
April 25, 2019 11:23 - 13 minutes - 5.95 MBIn this week's podcast Eddie Playfair, senior policy manager at the Association of Colleges and former college principal, joins Tes columnist Sarah Simons to discuss whether knowledge and skills are more closely linked than they may appear See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 12 April - Union conferences and why pupils should move
April 12, 2019 10:50 - 10 minutes - 9.84 MBJoin the Tes team as we preview the Easter teaching union conferences. We also discuss why physical movement could be important to pupils' learning. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Further - 5 April 2019 - A world without Ofsted
April 05, 2019 14:12 - 24 minutes - 11.2 MBIn this week's Tes FE Podcast, emeritus professor Frank Coffield joins Sarah Simons to consider a world without Ofsted and look at how a new system of inspection has been implemented in Scotland. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 5 April 2019 - Knife crime, Ofsted and Finland
April 05, 2019 12:21 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBJoin the Tes team as we discuss the week’s biggest talking points in the world of education. We talk about a potential new legal duty on teachers to combat knife crime, reactions to Ofsted's consultation on its draft inspection framework, and how Finland's approach to curriculum design differs from England. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Mathematips - April - Professor Dame Celia Hoyles
April 03, 2019 11:00 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBProfessor Dame Celia Hoyles is pretty much the closest one gets to royalty in mathematics education. “I’ve been around a long while,” she laughs, at the beginning of our conversation for this week’s Tes Mathematips podcast. Her decades of experience in maths education have been at the cutting edge of research. She has continually examined the place of technology and computing in maths learning, and explored innovative ways to assist students and teachers with all three. In this podcast, th...
News - 29 March 2019 - Accountability, research crisis and edtech
March 29, 2019 09:25 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBJoin the Tes team as we discuss whether the resignation of a prominent head is a canary in the mine, warning about the school accountability system. We also mull the latest data on the gender pay gap in schools, hear why education research may be facing an "existential crisis", and hear some practical advice for schools about edtech. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
English Focus - March - how to help pupils achieve in GCSE literature
March 27, 2019 08:44 - 1 hour - 60 MBHow can teachers help pupils to overcome the challenges of the new GCSE English literature exam specification? Teacher and senior leader Jennifer Webb shares her advice with Jamie Thom. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 22 March 2019 - Ofsted, Sats and vaccinations
March 21, 2019 16:00 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBJoin the Tes team as we take the temperature of the annual conference of the Association of School and College Leaders. We also discuss Sats and hints about Ofsted's new school inspection regime, and what schools should do in the face of the anti-vaccination movement. Tune in and enjoy! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.