A Wee Bit of Everything

This week we are joined by Andy Fleming who is the National Coaching and club manager at Volleyball Scotland. As a volleyball player, Andy has achieved domestic success in all national leagues and cup competitions. As a coach he has developed junior programmes and worked with Men and Women’s programmes in the National league. Andy also spent some time developing his coaching skills in the USA, working in the summer at various college and Universities.

This week we are joined by Dr Mike Jess from Edinburgh University who is a senior lecturer in Physical Education. His personal interests focus on the relationship between complexity thinking, ecological perspectives and professional practice. He is currently project leader of Visions and Voices: a longitudinal project that seeks to develop teachers’ personal visions as a key feature of future developments in physical education. Mike 's recent work is concentrated on complex adaptive practice, boundary crossing, transdisciplinary, becoming, lesson study and self-study.

This week we are joined by Kate Jones who is a teacher, leader and author of several retrieval practice books which provide fantastic resources for our classrooms. Kate is Head of History at The British School Al Khubairat in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Originally from Wrexham in North Wales, Kate taught in the UK for six years at Elfed High School before relocating to the UAE in 2016. Kate is also a lead practitioner who specialises in teaching and learning and most notably, retrieval practice, which we discuss in depth in this week's episode.

This week we are joined by Scottish former footballer, George Maxwell, who combined his work as a PE teacher with playing for Kilmarnock FC. George Maxwell had one of his school pupils, Gordon Smith as a team mate during his early days and then later coached Kris Boyd. Not only is he the highest scoring defender in the club’s history, he was also crowned the “Man with the hardest shot in Scotland”. George is on today to talk to us about his career in education and football. We ask George about the greatest challenges he faced and how he overcame them. We also touch on the best coaches he played under and why he felt this was the case. This episode offers lot of excellent take away messages that can be taken into your teaching practice and indeed, your life.

This week we are joined by Scottish former footballer and coach Archie Knox. He was most recently the assistant manager of Aberdeen until leaving the club in March 2013. Knox worked with Sir Alex Ferguson as an assistant manager at Aberdeen and Manchester United winning the European Cup Winners Cup, and with Walter Smith at Rangers helping them achieve the famous 9 in a row. Archie shares some great insights and lessons from his incredible career where he worked for a staggering 20 different clubs.

This week we are joined by Gemma MacLean. Gemma is studying the PGDE PE course at Strathclyde University. Gemma joins us on the podcast to chat to us about her not so straight forward journey through high school and how one teacher in particular never gave up on her. This put Gemma on the career path she is currently on and left us with a crucial take away message - Don't give up on the naughty kids!

This week we are joined by Dylan Scanlon from the University of Limerick. Dylan Scanlon is a PhD researcher in the Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences at the University of Limerick. Dylan’s research interests include physical education curriculum and assessment, teaching and learning in physical education teacher education, and sociology. Dylan talks to us today about the work he has carried out on integrated learning experiences within examinable physical education.

Today on AWBOE we have former podcast guest Murray Carnie. Murray joins us live from the Premiership Experience offices to chat to us about all things Olympics and examinations.

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This week we are joined by Senior Educational Psychologist Donna Carrigan from South Lanarkshire Council. In this week’s episode, Donna shares her knowledge and experience within attachment informed practice. Donna also addresses some of the common myths/barriers surrounding attachment theory and what this means for our practice.