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Looking for examples of how schools are using problem based learning and what to consider when implementing it? Anaru White and Pauline Moore continue their discussion from the previous podcast.

Problem Based Learning: Examples (Part 2 of 2)

This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the present day, reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. 

Today, G.H.Hardy, the mathematician who insisted he had never done anything useful. And yet his work on the "diabolical malice" inherent in prime numbers inspired the millions of codes that now help to keep the internet safe. 

Producer: Anna Buckley. Published on June 24, 2010.

Hardy and Ramanujan

This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the present day, reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. 

Today, the mathematician that never was, Nicolas Bourbaki. A group of French mathematicians, working between the two world wars and writing under the pseudonym Nicolas Bourbaki transformed their discipline and paved the way for several mathematical breakthroughs in the 21st century.

Producer: Anna Buckley. Published on June 25, 2010.

Nicolas Bourbaki

Professor Stephen Dinham has had a long and illustrious career in education, from over a decade in the classroom to Associate Dean of The Melbourne Graduate School of Education. In this episode Dinham speaks about his paper' The Worst of Both Worlds' in which he details Australia's tendency to adopt edu policies from the U.S and U.K, even when they don't work.

The Education Research Reading Room

ERRR #002. Stephen Dinham and The Worst of Both Worlds

Tom Bennett is the founder of researchED, a grass-roots organisation that seeks to raise research literacy in education. Tom's paper advocates for schools to allot time to teachers to explore research ed and how it applies in their school setting.

ERRR #003. Tom Bennett and The School Research Lead

Paul Weldon, Senior Research Fellow with the Australian Council for Educational Research, discusses teacher supply and demand to 2020, the extent of out of field teaching in Australia, and explores whether it's true that 50% of teachers leave the profession in the first 5 years.

ERRR #004. Paul Weldon, Teacher Supply and Demand, and Out of Field Teaching

Pamela Snow; registered psychologist and prolific oral language,  language-to-literacy, and child and adolescent linguistic interview researcher; discusses considerations when interviewing students, and the evidence base for the proposed national phonics check.

ERRR #005. Pamela Snow, Phonics + How can we get the real story from students?

'One teacher said to me - I can't believe that at 4pm I've done all my work; and it's not that they've done less work they've just done it more efficiently.' Sarah Whiting shares with Ānaru White her stories and experiences with teachers collaborating.

Sarah Shares Her Collaborative Change Stories With Anaru

In this episode we speak to Associate Professor Jennifer Stephenson about Pre-service Teachers' knowledge of evidence based, and non-evidence based instructional approaches, as well as what most influences their instructional decision making.

ERRR #006. Jennifer Stephenson and Instructional Decision Making of Teacher Education Students

In this episode, I chat with teacher, teaching mentor and bestselling author Doug Lemov. Doug believes that teaching is a performance profession and spends his time learning what the very best teachers do. During our conversation, Doug introduces practical methodologies that coaches can use to improve their ability to teach, including the craft of coaching on the run, the difference between teaching and learning, how to data collect as you coach and thoughts on using ecological dynamics as a coach.

#3 Doug Lemov - Building a Culture of Error

Daisy Christodoulou, an expert on assessment, talks about everything from rubrics, to question level analysis, formative and summative assessment, high stakes exams, and a new and exciting method of assessment, Comparative Judgments

ERRR #027. Daisy Christodoulou on Getting Assessment Right and Comparative Judgment

Our myth busters are Teaching Council lead advisor Christina Thornley and ERO manager of national projects Jane Lee. Together they demystify the appraisal process and explain how effective appraisal is a lever that drives up best practice in teaching and why it’s teachers and learners who reap the benefits.

Transcript available here: https://teachingcouncil.nz/sites/default/files/Episode%201_appraisal%20transcript%20.pdf

In the episode we mention heaps of useful resources available on our website for making sure your appraisal supports quality practice: https://teachingcouncil.nz/content/appraisal

Teaching Today Podcast S2 Episode 1: Myth busting appraisal

Dr Danielle Colenbrander chats with us about the role of vocabulary in reading instruction. 
Dr Danielle Colenbrander is a researcher and member of the Macquarie University Centre for Reading. Danielle trained as a speech language pathologist at Macquarie University before completing her PhD exploring the role of oral vocabulary in reading comprehension difficulties. She has worked with diverse populations of children in a variety of settings in Australia and the UK. She is interested in relationships between vocabulary knowledge, reading aloud and reading comprehension.

For further reading and professional learning:
Effective Reading: Vocabulary (professional learning for NSWDoE teachers)https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/curriculum/literacy-and-numeracy/professional-learning

Literacy and numeracy website (NSWDoE intranet)
education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-l…y-and-numeracy1) 

Beck, McKeown & Kucan (2013). Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction (2nd edition)

Beck, McKeown & Kucan (2008). Creating Robust Vocabulary: Frequently Asked Questions and Extended Examples,

Parsons & Branagan (2017). Word Aware: Teaching Vocabulary Across the Day, Across the Curriculum.

Duff, Dawna (2019).Has Vocabulary Intervention Had an Effect? A Valid, Reliable, and (Fairly) Quick Outcome Measure for Semantic Knowledge, Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools • Vol. 50 • 506–517

Dr Danielle Colenbrander chats about vocabulary for reading instruction

Mark and Matt chat to James about chapter 1 of their book on Engaging Boys and the pitfalls of trying to make everything relevant.

Episode 1 - The Engagement Myth

Doug Lemov gives in-depth advice about how to execute 16 of the most effective Teach Like a Champion techniques, and more!

ERRR #049. Doug Lemov on Teaching Like a Champion

The fourth episode in the Covid School Miniseries

Margaret Allen speaks to headteachers Navroop Mehat and Nick Hart. They discuss how their respective schools have approached the 20/21 academic year with further school part-closures and continuous remote learning.

Both guests provide a valuable insight into how they have planned and implemented their curriculum before, during and beyond remote-learning circumstances.

The episode also covers the vital topic of assessment within schools and how each headteacher prioritises assessment within their respective institution.

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Ollie Lovell, passionate teacher in on the lands of the Kulin Nation in Western Melbourne, Australia. Loves learning and learning about learning. Get in touch with me at @ollie_lovell or at www.ollielovell.com