I am away next week, so today is a bonus interview episode. The guest on today's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast' is Dr Emma Kell. Emma is the founder and director of Those Who Can. She is a teacher, coach and wellbeing expert. She is also the author of a range of excellent education books, including 'How to Survive in Teaching.' In this interview, Emma answers the central question: What can new teachers do to support their resilience and optimism levels? In answering that c...
Apr 19, 2023•48 min
The guest on this week's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast' is Peter Foster. Peter leads secondary teacher development across a large multi-academy trust. He is also the author of a superb new book called 'What do new teachers need to know?', which is out on Wednesday 19th of April. In this interview, Peter answers the central question: What do new teachers need to know about cognitive science. In answering that central question we also explore the following: 1. What does the ...
Apr 17, 2023•45 min
This episode is this week's 'Teacher Talk': a fifteen minute talk that explores an important aspect of classroom practice, with practical strategies for implementing it in your classroom. This talk is a departure for the usual format. In it, I share a piece of writing from a former student of mine. It is anonymous and shared with permission, and is entitled: 'My experience of school undiagnosed with ASD'. It provides an honest and brave account of her experiences in the classroom. I hope you fin...
Apr 06, 2023•16 min
The guest on this week's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast' is Karen Watson. Karen Watson is an Additional Support Needs (ASN) educator, inclusion champion and teacher. She is also the author of the excellent book 'Good Autism Practice for Teachers'. In this interview, Karen answers the central question: how can teachers best support autistic students? In answering that central question we explore the following questions: 1. How would you define autism for listeners? 2. What m...
Apr 04, 2023•50 min
The guest on this week's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast' is Bruce Robertson. Bruce is a headteacher, consultant and author of the excellent 'Teaching Delusion' trilogy. His new book 'Power up your Pedagogy,' is a brilliant visual guide to how to develop your teaching. In this interview, Bruce answers the central question: how can new teachers power up their pedagogy? In answering that central question we explore two main themes: how to improve the management of behaviour an...
Mar 29, 2023•45 min
This episode is this week's 'Teacher Talk': a fifteen minute talk that explores an important aspect of classroom practice, with practical strategies for implementing it in your classroom. This talk explores what we can do to improve the quality of explanations in our classrooms. It explores why delivering powerful explanations is such a nuanced skill, before going on to look at three areas to focus on to improve how you deliver explanations: 1. The physicality of how you communicate 2. The confi...
Mar 27, 2023•17 min
The guest on this week's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast' is Dr Heather Earnshaw. Heather is my wonderful colleague at Edinburgh Napier University, where she leads the Physics PGDE. She also has a huge amount of experience in working with schools and organisations in tacking inequalities, and lead Education Scotland's Improving Gender Balance and Equalities programme. In today's episode we answer the question: How can teachers be more aware of their unconscious bias in the c...
Mar 22, 2023•45 min
This episode is this week's 'Teacher Talk': a fifteen minute talk that explores an important aspect of classroom practice, with practical strategies for implementing it in your classroom. This talk explores what we can do to improve the quality of listening in classrooms. It explores why it is important that we focus on listening skills, before looking at ways in which we can develop it. That improvement of listening is broken down into two parts: how we role model curiosity and effective listen...
Mar 20, 2023•16 min
Today's episode of 'Beyond Survival: The New Teacher podcast' is a new monthly themed episode with Colin McGill. Colin is my colleague in the PGDE at Edinburgh Napier University, and is the programme leader. Each month Colin will be answering listeners' questions on a particular theme. This episode focusses on behaviour. Colin answers the following questions: 1. What was the most challenging class you taught and what did you do? 2. What can you do to manage the behaviour of a very chatty class? ...
Mar 16, 2023•45 min
This episode is this week's 'Teacher Talk': a fifteen minute talk that explores an important aspect of classroom practice, with practical strategies for implementing it in your classroom. This talk explores resilience and how we can train ourselves to develop a resilient mindset. After exploring what resilience is, and how it manifests in teachers, the talk goes on to explore four ways we can learn how to take a resilient mindset forward in the work we do in education. My book 'Teacher Resilienc...
Mar 13, 2023•16 min
This week I have started studying for a diploma in coaching to qualify as an International Coach Federation registered professional coach. I'm looking for individuals who might be interested in doing some coaching with me, all for free. This will be hopefully supportive and useful for the potential coach, and help me to develop my coaching skills. This brief ten minute episode gives an overview of the following: What is my previous coaching experience? Why can being coached be such a powerful an...
Mar 10, 2023•10 min
The guest on this week's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast' is Dr Lucy Kelly. Lucy is an Associate Professor of Education at Bristol University and runs their English PGDE. She is also the author of a wonderful new book 'Reimagining the Diary: Reflective practice as a positive tool for educator wellbeing'. You can follow Lucy on Twitter at @drlucykelly. In today's episode we answer the question: Why is the diary the secret to teacher well-being and improved reflection? In answ...
Mar 09, 2023•45 min
This episode is this week's 'Teacher Talk': a fifteen minute talk that explores an important aspect of classroom practice, with practical strategies for implementing it in your classroom. This talk explores effective revision strategies that you can share with your students as we approach examinations. The first part of the talk looks at some of the revision traps that young people fall into, that don't support them with effective retention of knowledge. The second part looks at some practical, ...
Mar 06, 2023•16 min
The guest on this week's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast' is Andrew Taylor. Andrew worked in schools for 16 years as a class teacher and senior leader. He now works for the University of Worcester, supporting trainee teachers and helping to improve the provision for ECTs. You can follow Andrew’s popular ECT Twitter account @MrTs_NQTs for advice, support and daily tips for new teachers. His excellent new book is called 'You Got This: Thriving as an Early Career Teacher with M...
Mar 01, 2023•44 min
This episode is this week's 'Teacher Talk': a fifteen minute talk that explores an important aspect of classroom practice, with practical strategies for implementing it in your classroom. This talk explores how to manage behaviour at the start of a lesson. It gives some advice on what you can do before the lesson starts in order to secure the conditions for positive behaviour, followed by what you can then do once the students have arrived at the lesson. It also gives some phrases and tools you ...
Feb 27, 2023•16 min
Today's episode is a bonus Teacher Talk. My new book 'Talking To Teenagers: A Guide to Skilful Classroom Communication' is out today (24th February). In this talk, I give a fifteen minute overview of the purpose and motivation for writing 'Talking to Teenagers', and an introduction to the five communication principles that are the basis of the book: 1. Understand the complexity of the teenage audience 2. Master the non-verbal 3. Script and teach behaviour 4. LEAP in classroom discussion. 5. Driv...
Feb 23, 2023•15 min
The guest on this week's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast' is Jade Pearce. Jade is a former senior leader who is now Director of Programmes at GAT Institute. She is also the author of the excellent book 'What Every Teacher Needs to Know'. You can follow Jade on Twitter @PearceMrs. Today we will be answering the question: what does evidence-informed teaching look like? In exploring that central question, we also answer the following: 1. What does evidence informed explicit ins...
Feb 21, 2023•47 min
This episode is this week's 'Teacher Talk': a fifteen minute talk that explores an important aspect of classroom practice, with practical strategies for implementing it in your classroom. This talk is part two of a focus on questioning. Last week's talk focussed on five questioning traps, this week looks at five effective questioning strategies. 1. Validate participation 2. Wait time 3. Sensitive Cold Call 4. Encourage mass participation 5. Probing I hope you find it helpful and supportive in yo...
Feb 20, 2023•16 min
This episode is this week's 'Teacher Talk': a fifteen minute talk that explores an important aspect of classroom practice, with practical strategies for implementing it in your classroom. This talk explores the value of questioning and some of the common classroom questioning traps to avoid. It explores five potential questioning pitfalls: 1. Guess what is in the head 2. Closed questions dominating 3. Not leaving sufficient thinking time 4. Checking for understanding through 'any questions?' 5. ...
Feb 13, 2023•16 min
The guest on this week's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast' is Fiona Leadbeter. Fiona is a Principle Teacher of Expressive Arts in Scotland and runs the excellent teaching and learning blog 'The Perfectly Imperfect Educator at https://fleadbeater.wordpress.com. Today we will be answering the question: what do new teachers need to know about cognitive load theory? In exploring that central question, we also answer the following: 1. What is cognitive load theory and where did it...
Feb 13, 2023•45 min
The guest on this week's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast' is Ben Karlin. Ben is a former English teacher and senior leader, who now works at Ambition Institute, where he designs programmes to support teachers and school leaders to keep getting better. He is also the co-author of 'The Teaching and Learning Playbook', which has over 100 techniques for teachers to improve their practice. Today we will be answering the question: what routines should new teachers use in their les...
Feb 08, 2023•49 min
This episode is this week's 'Teacher Talk': a fifteen minute talk that explores an important aspect of classroom practice, with practical strategies for implementing it in your classroom. This talk explores how to best teach and support quieter students. It explores three key areas: 1. Noticing and building relationships 2. Scaffolding verbal contributions 3. Celebrating quiet strengths. I hope you find it helpful and supportive in your classroom. My book, 'A Quiet Education, which I mention in ...
Feb 06, 2023•16 min
The guest on this week's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast' is Mark Roberts. Mark is an English teacher and Director of Research in a school in Northern Ireland. He is also the author of a range of brilliant books on education. His latest book is the excellent 'The Boy Question: How to Teach Boys to Succeed in School'. You can follow Mark on Twitter at @mr_englishteach. Today we will be answering the question: what will help boys to succeed in school? In exploring that central...
Feb 01, 2023•43 min
This episode is this week's 'Teacher Talk': a fifteen minute talk that explores an important aspect of classroom practice, with practical strategies for implementing it in your classroom. This talk explores the benefits of becoming a slow teacher. It looks at three benefits of applying a slower approach to teaching: 1. Improving perspective and planning 2. Improving teacher presence and explanations 3. Enabling real teacher improvement I hope you find it helpful and supportive in your classroom....
Jan 30, 2023•15 min
The guest on this week's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast' is Craig Barton. Craig hosts the brilliant podcast 'Tips for Teachers', which you can find at https://tipsforteachers.co.uk . He is the author of three excellent books on teaching, including 'Tips for Teachers' which has just come out this month and has over four hundred tips for teachers. You can follow Craig on Twitter at @mrbartonmaths. In this interview, Craig picks out five tips from his book and interviews with ...
Jan 25, 2023•52 min
This episode is the first of a weekly 'Teacher Talk': a fifteen minute talk that explores an important aspect of classroom practice, with practical strategies for implementing it in your classroom. This talk explores the language choices we can make as teachers to influence classroom behaviour. It explores three key areas: 1. Civility and manners 2. Naming specific behaviours 3. Depersonalising behaviour feedback. I hope you find it helpful and supportive in securing positive behaviour in your c...
Jan 23, 2023•16 min
The guest on this week's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast' is my brilliant colleague at Napier University, Colin McGill - back for his second appearance. After a successful career as a Chemistry Teacher and Curriculum Leader, Colin is now the PGDE programme leader for Teacher Education at Napier University. You can follow Colin on Twitter @colinmcgill In this interview, Colin answers the central question: Why chose a career in teaching? In answering that central question, we ...
Jan 18, 2023•36 min
The guest on this week's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast' is Kat Howard. Kat is a former senior leader, who is now the director for a large Multi-Academy Trust Teaching School Hub. She is also the author of 'Stop Talking About Wellbeing: a Pragmatic Approach to Teacher Workload' and co-author of 'Symbiosis: the Curriculum and the Classroom.' In this interview, Kat answers the central question: What will help new teachers to improve their teaching? In answering that central q...
Dec 05, 2022•43 min
The guest on this week's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast' is Emma Turner. Emma is a former Primary school teacher and headteacher, who now is the CPD lead for the Discovery Trust. She is also the author of four brilliant education books, that cover a range of topics from curriculum to flexible working. You can follow her on Twitter @Emma_Turner75. In this interview, Emma answers the central question: How can new teachers set boundaries and find a work-life balance? In answer...
Nov 27, 2022•43 min
This week's episode is the monthly live coaching episode. This involves a teacher at the start of their career coming on the podcast to explore an issue or question they have. This week's episode is with Anna Green. Anna is doing her PGDE (teacher education year) and wanted to explore how she can continue to develop her teaching, and what aspects of her teaching skills she should priortise. I hope you find the episode useful. As always, any feedback is gratefully received, and I would love to he...
Nov 20, 2022•44 min
