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News - 19 October 2018 - Exclusions, the curriculum and flossing
October 19, 2018 15:16 - 15 minutes - 35.3 MBJoin the Tes team as we discuss the week’s biggest talking points in the world of education. We talk about Damian Hinds' pledge to tackle exclusions, conflict over the curriculum and flossing for funding. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Further - 12 October 2018 - Developing Middle Leaders
October 12, 2018 10:42 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBIn this week's Tes FE Podcast, Boston College principal Jo Maher - the youngest college leader in the country - discusses how best to develop the education leaders of the future with Tes columnist Sarah Simons See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 12 October 2018 - Ofsted, crumbling schools and positivity
October 12, 2018 10:40 - 17 minutes - 40.7 MBJoin the Tes team as we discuss Damian Hinds' full throated defence of academies, the latest volley in the war over the new inspection framework, and the questions which have been raised about Ofsted's approach to inspecting safeguarding. We also discuss this week's Tes magazine, which includes a feature about the parlous state of school buildings and the merits of positive psychology in schools. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Podagogy – Season 4, Episode 6 - Mental health with Dr Emma Mahoney
October 10, 2018 08:35 - 18 minutes - 42.2 MBThere is plenty that we can all do to support young people’s mental health, says clinical psychologist Dr Emma Mahoney on World Mental Health Day. In this podcast, Mahoney talks about the statistics around young people’s mental health, the causes of mental health problems, and what schools can do to help tackle the problem. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 5 October 2018 - Tory conference, Ofsted row and taking risks
October 05, 2018 15:43 - 21 minutes - 49.1 MBJoin the Tes team as we discuss what this week's Conservative Party conference in Birmingham means for schools. We also assess where another week of criticism from influential figures leaves Ofsted's plans to overhaul its school inspection framework, and explore the idea of teachers taking more risks in the classroom. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Further - 5th October 2018 - Lesley Morrey
October 05, 2018 10:32 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBIn this week's poscast Lesley Morrey, Director of Student Engagement and Partnerships at Newcastle and Stafford Colleges Group, discusses a recent security incident that saw the college under lockdown. In conversation with TES columnist Sarah Simons, she offers advice on how to ensure the correct procedures are in placs should the unthinkable happen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Podagogy –Season 4, Episode 5 - Teaching writing with professor Dominic Wyse
October 03, 2018 12:00 - 34 minutes - 78.3 MBDominic Wyse has a challenge for you: “How often does a child in England get to genuinely do a piece of writing that begins with a blank page and is entirely their own ideas because they think those ideas are important?” The professor of Early Childhood and Primary Education at the University College London (UCL), Institute of Education (IOE), already thinks he knows your answer. “I know from my own research and experience, it is incredibly rare,” he states. And he says that because this...
News - 28 September 2018 - Protesting heads, supply teachers and Labour
September 28, 2018 15:06 - 13 minutes - 31.2 MBJoin the Tes team as we discuss the head teachers' march on Downing Street. We also mull over Labour's announcements about the future of academies at its annual conference, and discuss the plight of supply teachers. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Further - 28th September 2018 - Pedagogy centre stage in FE
September 28, 2018 10:26 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBIn this week's TES FE Podcast, teacher, academic and educational 'nomad' Lou Mycroft, chats with TES columnist Sarah Simons, exploring how pedagogy can be brought to the front and centre of FE. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Podagogy – Season 4, Episode 4 - The role of schools with professor Fred Oswald
September 26, 2018 12:00 - 37 minutes - 86 MBFred Oswald seems to audibly cringe when the words “21st Century Skills” are mentioned. But that’s not to say the professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychologyin the Department of Psychology at Rice University does not think such skills exist. Rather, he believes this set of “non-cognitive” skills – including resilience, pro social skills, conscientiousness - have always been required in society, but the demand for them has now increased. “What makes them 21st century skills? Tech...
English Focus- September - Why it’s time English teachers did less marking with Robin Macpherson
September 25, 2018 11:42 - 55 minutes - 102 MB“I used to love line-by-line forensic marking,” says Robin Macpherson, an assistant head at Dollar Academy. “I’m one of these weird people in that I like marking. If I’ve got a huge pile of marking at the weekend, for most people, that keeps them awake at night, but I just go off to a café somewhere and I like doing it.” This was Macpherson’s approach to marking when he first started teaching. He promised his pupils that if they got work into him on time, they would get it back the next les...
News - 21 September 2018 - Performance related pay and party conferences
September 21, 2018 15:46 - 16 minutes - 36.7 MBJoin the Tes team as we discuss what the introduction of performance-related pay has meant for schools and teachers. We also ask whether Labour will expand on its vision for a National Education Service at its annual conference, and discuss the findings of the survey of 5,000 governors that Tes and the National Governance Association carried out. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Further - 21st September 2018 - Richard Atkins
September 21, 2018 10:12 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBIn this week's TES FE Podcast the Department for Education's FE Commissioner, Richard Atkins CBE chats with TES columnist Sarah Simons. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Podagogy – Season 4, Episode 3 - Phonics with professor Ann Castles
September 19, 2018 12:00 - 34 minutes - 78.3 MB“Systematic phonics is the great equaliser,” states Anne Castles, distinguished professor in the department of cognitive science at Macquarie University. “If the child does not have rich language background, you can teach them phonics then they can go and read and supply themselves with that rich language, which is so key for their ability to access the curriculum later on.” Speaking on this week’s episode of Tes Podagogy, Castles argues the evidence this is the case is now compelling. “T...
News - 13 September 2018 - Sexual assault, and school accountability
September 13, 2018 16:01 - 18 minutes - 41.6 MBThe Tes team discusses the findings of a heavyweight commission that has been examining how schools are held to account. We also hear about the concerns of two mothers whose daughters were raped by classmates. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Further - 14th September 2018 - Nigel Duncan
September 13, 2018 15:39 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MBIn this week's episode Nigel Duncan, Principal of Fareham College shares the secrets of creating a successful pop-up enterprise. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Podagogy – Season 4, Episode 2 - Why we don't know what works with professor Steve Higgins
September 11, 2018 19:22 - 29 minutes - 67.8 MB“Most things in education, we have no idea whether they work,” admits professor Steve Higgins. The professor in the school of education at Durham University and co-creator of the EEF Teaching and Learning Toolkit, speaking on this week’s Tes Podagogy podcast, explains that this is because research in education is extremely complicated. “Schools are unpredictable places and you cannot control all the variables. But when you control all the variables for a study in the lab, you make it less ...
News - 7 September 2018 - Setting and Ofsted under fire
September 07, 2018 15:53 - 13 minutes - 29.8 MBJoin the Tes team as we discuss a highly-critical report about Ofsted from MPs on the Commons Public Accounts Committee. We also reflect on landmark academic research which has raised a series of concerns about the practice of setting in schools. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Podagogy – Season 4, Episode 1 - Character education with professor Angela Duckworth
September 05, 2018 09:14 - 22 minutes - 51.8 MB“If a teacher takes a moment to think about what they actually do in their own classroom, there is tonnes of experimentation. You try a lesson plan one way and you realise at the end of that class that it’s really not going as well as you would have liked and then maybe your new class files in and you tweak it a little bit,” says Angela Duckworth, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Duckworth, best known for her work on the science ...
English Focus - 3 September - Is collaboration the key to beating the workload crisis?
September 03, 2018 11:39 - 46 minutes - 63.5 MBIn the first episode of the new Tes English teaching podcast, the founders of the Team English Twitter community talk to Jamie Thom about collaborative working It is the start of the academic year and with it comes the yearly tidal wave of teaching and learning guidance for us to wade through. It may be well intentioned, but so little of it takes into account the enormous workload that teachers are already facing. And even less is related to what we are immersed in day-in and day-out in the...
News - 31 August 2018 - Subject teaching time and Damian Hinds
August 31, 2018 10:51 - 19 minutes - 44.1 MBAs teachers prepare for the start of the new academic year, the Tes team discusses an analysis of teaching hours that shows how the curriculum has changed in schools in recent years. We also reflect on education secretary Damian Hinds' first major interview for the new school year, and re-cap some of the bigger stories you may have missed over the summer. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 23 August 2018 - GCSE results day 2018
August 23, 2018 17:08 - 21 minutes - 48.5 MBIn a special GCSE results day podcast, the Tes team analyses the main trends, from the proportions of pupils getting the top grades to why boys are catching up with girls. We also discuss critics who claim grade boundaries are being manipulated to ensure "everyone's a winner", and ask where Jeremy Clarkson has gone. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 16 August 2018 - A level results day
August 16, 2018 16:42 - 19 minutes - 45.8 MBJoin us for a special Tes podcast to analyise today's A level results. We discuss the main trends to emerge in 2018, and the impact of the rising number of unconditional offers from universities. The team also asks whether A level reforms mean the qualifications are now harder, and talk about the impact on pupils' mental health. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 25 July 2018 - Teacher pay - winners and losers
July 25, 2018 14:59 - 14 minutes - 33.6 MBJoin us for a special Tes podcast as we discuss the pay award for teachers, which was finally announced this week. The Tes team discusses what the award means for teachers, school leaders, unions and the Department for Education, and asks who are the winners and losers. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 20 July 2018 - Pay, sex education and LGBT teachers
July 20, 2018 13:08 - 17 minutes - 40.5 MBJoin the Tes team as we talk about some of the biggest topics of the week. We discuss anger about the continued uncertainty about this year's teacher pay rise, and whether the government will give schools the money to pay for it. We also talk about the new guidance on relationships and sex education, and discuss research about the experiences of LGBT teachers. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Podagogy – Season 3, Episode 7 - Executive function with professor Lucy Cragg
July 18, 2018 10:51 - 24 minutes - 56.1 MBExecutive function is like an air traffic controller, directing the focus of our brain, says Lucy Cragg, associate professor in the Faculty of Science at the University of Nottingham. This is what makes effective executive function crucial to how we learn. "Some people liken it to an air traffic control system or the conductor of an orchestra, where you are drawing on the resources of the brain and coordinating them towards the goal that you want to do," explains Cragg. Executive function,...
Further - 17th July 2018 - Dr Peter Shukie
July 16, 2018 11:43 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MBIn this week's podcast special edition, Dr Peter Shukie, lecturer in Education Studies at Blackburn College's University Centre, and creator of Community open online courses (Coocs) chats with columnist Sarah Simons about the democratic teaching and learning ethos behind the technology. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 13 July 2018 - Sats, Ofsted and teacher wellbeing
July 13, 2018 12:47 - 14 minutes - 34 MBJoin the Tes team as we talk about some of the biggest topics of the week. We discuss this week's SATs results, and ask whether there is any point to Ofsted any more. We also talk about one teacher's advice on how teachers can do their job brilliantly while still having a life. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Further -11th July 2018 - CEO pay, FE reputation and CPD with Sam Jones
July 11, 2018 13:56 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBIn this week's episode Sam Jones, lecturer in initial teacher education at Bedford College and Founder of FE Researchmeet, chats with Tes columnist Sarah Simons on the week's FE news and views. They discuss fat cat salaries paid by training providers, how reputation is the key to the sector's future - and the best plan of action if your end-of-year CPD turns into a spectacle. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 6 July 2018 - Small schools, word gaps and the World Cup
July 06, 2018 15:51 - 13 minutes - 31.9 MBJoin the Tes team as we talk about some of the biggest topics of the week. We discuss what the future holds for small village schools as the Church of England asks the government to make it easier to close them. We also talk about concerns that the preoccupation with the 'word gap' is backfiring, and ask whether schools should re-schedule events if they clash with big World Cup ties. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 28 July 2018 - Teacher numbers, trauma and school support
June 28, 2018 16:47 - 20 minutes - 47.4 MBJoin the Tes team as we talk about some of the biggest topics of the week. We discuss why new evidence of the teacher recruitment crisis means the government can no longer say there are record number of teachers in the system. We also hear why teachers need to be aware of the impact of trauma on their pupils, and expose the dramatic fall in council support for school improvement. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Further - 27th June 2018 - Maria Wilkinson
June 27, 2018 15:54 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBIn this episode of the TES FE Podcast Maria Wilkinson, Faculty Director at Buckinghamshire College Group joins TES columnist Sarah Simons for a chat about the week's FE news and views. They discuss the prospect of T level pathways being delivered by a single awarding body and how to best prepare students for exams. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Podagogy – Season 3, Episode 6 - Developmental language disorder with professor Courtenay Nourbury
June 27, 2018 09:57 - 33 minutes - 77.1 MB“Roughly two children in every classroom will have significant language needs,” explains Courtenay Norbury, professor of developmental language disorders at UCL. “[But] a teacher may not always recognise it as a language problem first, it may be spotted as a difficulty with learning, or with peers, with reading or behaviour. But very often it is a language difficulty.” Norbury is on a mission to find better ways of diagnosing language problems and more comprehensive interventions for teache...
News - 22 June 2018 - Teacher visas, 'headtrepreneurs' and the Tes Awards
June 22, 2018 15:12 - 13 minutes - 29.3 MBWith a Tes investigation uncovering that foreign teachers are being forced to leave their jobs - and the UK - this week we discuss the issue of teacher visas. The Tes team also talk about whether school leaders should play the role of 'headtrepreneurs' raising money for their schools, and we look forward to the 2018 Tes School Awards. Tune in and enjoy: See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 15 June 2018 - The World Cup, grammar expansion and the reading wars
June 15, 2018 15:39 - 14 minutes - 32.2 MBWith the World Cup now underway, the Tes team don their boots and shin pads for a kick-about with the week's education news. The team explore whether international football depresses GCSE results. They also discuss why grammar school expansion could prove an anticlimax for Number 10, and whether psychology could bring an end to the reading wars. Tune in and enjoy: See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Further - 12th June 2018 - Festival of Learning Awards
June 15, 2018 15:30 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MBThis episode of the Tes FE Podcast was recorded live at the Festival of Learning Awards, at the Royal Society of Arts in London. Tes columninst Sarah Simons chats with five of the inspiring award winners, who have used lifelong learning to transform their lives. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 8 June 2018 - The 2017 election a year on, northern schools and safe spaces
June 08, 2018 14:43 - 14 minutes - 32.9 MBA year on 2017's general election we reflect on what the result meant for education: the loss of momentum on grammar schools, and the on-going issue of funding and teacher pay. We also discuss the issue of so-called underperformance of Northern schools and the dedicated 'safe spaces' helping schools to focus on wellbeing and mental health. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 31 May 2018 - Free schools, SATs and failure
May 31, 2018 17:18 - 16 minutes - 37.6 MBThis week, we talk about a new report assessing the success of free schools, and secrecy around the conflicts of interest of the minister who oversees them. We also discuss an investigation into why academies can choose who moderates their writing SATs but maintained schools cannot, and examine the case for letting pupils experience failure in the classroom. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Further - 30th May 2018 - Ruth Spellman
May 30, 2018 16:56 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MBIn this week's TES FE Podcast Ruth Spellman, Chief Executive of the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) the UK’s largest voluntary sector provider of adult education in England and Scotland, joins TES columnist Sarah Simons. They discuss the government's review of post-18 education, flexibility for prison governors to select appropriate training for prisoners in their care, and the gender pay gap in colleges. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Podagogy – Season 3, Episode 5 - Group work with professor Christine Howe
May 30, 2018 10:54 - 20 minutes - 46.5 MB“I can easily see why teachers would feel a little negative about group work,” says professor Christine Howe. “They must surely think it’s hard to do well, so why should I bother?” Howe is a developmental psychologist and professor emeritus in the faculty of education at the University of Cambridge. She has spent the past twenty years researching how children develop conceptual knowledge, peer relations and communicative competence through working together in groups, and in the latest Tes P...
News - 24 May 2018 - Exam reforms, behaviour policy and Ofsted failing to meet targets.
May 25, 2018 15:49 - 14 minutes - 33 MBThis week, we discuss exam season and whether or not the government's exam reforms have had their intended effect.We also talk about Ofsted missing both internal and statutory targets, and are 'carrot and stick' behaviour policies too simplistic in their approach and failing the most at risk students? Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Podagogy – Season 3, Episode 4 - Direct instruction with professor Paul Kischner
May 23, 2018 11:15 - 39 minutes - 88.6 MB“If you look at what most good teachers do, they are using direct instruction, but if you say to them they are using direct instruction they look at you as if, and this is a Dutch phrase, water is on fire, and they say ‘No I am a progressive’,” says professor Paul Kirschner, University Distinguished Professor at the Open University of the Netherlands. “They have a blind spot, they tend to see the straw man of direct instruction.” Kirchner is one of the world’s leading researchers into in...
Further - 23rd May 2018 - David Russell
May 22, 2018 14:06 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MBIn this episode of the TES FE Podcast, columnist Sarah Simons chats with David Russell, CEO of the Education and Training Foundation. They discuss the complexities of a potential FE funding crisis and the 'body language' of the FE sector, as well as why Applied General qualifications are worth fighting for. They also explore how assessment could be made more inclusive. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 18 May 2018 - Sats, GCSEs and emojis
May 18, 2018 11:39 - 12 minutes - 27.2 MBThis week, we discuss Sats and the impact the tests have on primary school pupils. As Sats come to an end, GCSEs season begins, and we talk about the introduction of the grade 9-1 GCSEs, and the social media backlash many exam boards now face. We also talk about the use of emojis in the classroom – pupils love them, but do teachers? And is there any hard proof of their effect on pupils' learning? Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Further - 16th May 2018 - Julia Smith
May 16, 2018 14:02 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBIn this week's episode of the Tes FE Podcast, columnist Sarah Simons talk to teacher, trainer, author and chair of governors at Writtle University College, Julia Smith. They discuss concerns about cyber security following the changes to JISC's funding, how to avoid burnout, and their contrasting levels of enthusiasm for the royal wedding. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Podagogy – Season 3, Episode 3 - EAL with professor Victoria Murphy
May 16, 2018 12:00 - 40 minutes - 91.6 MB“EAL is a problematic category,” states Victoria Murphy, professor of applied linguistics at the University of Oxford. Murphy is a long-time researcher into English as an additional language (EAL) and on this week’s Tes Podagogy podcast she explains that use of the term brings multiple problems. “The way it is defined is so general, it really just highlights children who have another language in the home,” she explains. “It does not speak to whether and to what extent the child is exposed...
News - 11 May 2018 - Grammar schools, tackling workload and the anxiety epidemic
May 11, 2018 15:32 - 14 minutes - 33.6 MBThis week, we discuss a major government announcement on grammar school expansion, new faith schools and its approach to the independent school sector. We also talk about the growing number of schools that are finding their own solutions to teacher workload, and ask whether there is evidence to support fears of an anxiety epidemic among young people. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 4 May 2018 - New school accountability regime, TAs and free schools
May 04, 2018 10:45 - 17 minutes - 38.4 MBThis week, we discuss Damian Hinds' radical overhaul of how schools are held to account - including the end of poor exam results triggering forced academy conversion. We also talk about research about how teaching assistants are used in the class, and ask what happened to the vision of parents setting up their own free schools. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Further - 1st May 2018 - Bill Watkin
May 01, 2018 16:22 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBIn this week's episode of the Tes FE Podcast, columnist Sarah Simons is joined by chief executive of Sixth Form Colleges Association, Bill Watkin. They discuss the secretive cull of FE provision that T levels may bring, look at the work of FE commissioner Richard Atkins, and share experiences of climbing the career ladder. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
News - 27 April 2018 - Sir David Carter, SATs and mental health
April 27, 2018 10:07 - 23 minutes - 53.3 MBJoin the Tes team as we talk about some of the biggest topics of the week. We assess Sir David Carter's reign as national schools commissioner as he announces he is stepping down. We also hear about the stress being put on seven year olds and their teachers by SATs, and mental health. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.