CPL Podcast

By Centre for Professional Learning

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CPL Podcast episodes are professional conversations around practical and important aspects of teaching and Public Education.

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The CPL Podcast contributes to the purpose of the Centre for Professional Learning which is the professional development arm of the NSW Teachers Federation.

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CPL Podcast episodes:

07.18.2022
Take 5 Episode 12: English Block
Take 5 podcasts aim to provide listeners with five points to consider for their classroom practice. How can teachers maximize the effectiveness of the time allocated in each day’s timetable for English? TRIO discusses some options in this podcast. Mary-Ellen Betts...
07.18.2022
Take 5 Episode 11: Improving Writing
Take 5 podcasts aim to provide listeners with five points to consider for their classroom practice. Five key points from this podcast will support teacher reflection on teaching practices that improve student writing. Jenny Williams and Mary-Ellen Betts
07.18.2022
Take 5 Episode 10: Teach Poetry
Take 5 podcasts aim to provide listeners with five points to consider for their classroom practice. TRIO love poetry and this podcast offers all teachers some encouragement to include poetry in their teaching of English. Jenny Williams and Mary-Ellen Betts
07.18.2022
Take 5 Episode 9: Working Mathematically
Take 5 podcasts aim to provide listeners with five points to consider for their classroom practice. The five components of working mathematically are at the heart of the NSW maths syllabus. This discussion addresses what that means for classroom teachers. Sandra...
07.18.2022
Take 5 Episode 8: Behaviour Management
Take 5 podcasts aim to provide listeners with five points to consider for their classroom practice. Every teacher wants a calm and well managed classroom. This podcast explores five principles that underpin effective behaviour management. Sandra Rowan and Jenny Williams
07.18.2022
Take 5 Episode 7: Principles Of Spelling
Take 5 podcasts aim to provide listeners with five points to consider for their classroom practice. There are much better ways to address the teaching of spelling than a weekly list. This podcast explores the effective teaching of spelling. Mary-Ellen Betts...
07.18.2022
Take 5 Episode 6: Improving Spelling Through Conferences
Take 5 podcasts aim to provide listeners with five points to consider for their classroom practice. Let’s get practical with spelling and sort out errors as the pen hits the page! Spelling conferences may be a real ah-ha moment for...
07.18.2022
Take 5 Episode 5: Guided Reading
Take 5 podcasts aim to provide listeners with five points to consider for their classroom practice. TRIO thinks you will agree that guided reading is a good idea but sometimes the management, timing and grouping of students can seem difficult....
07.18.2022
Take 5 Episode 4: Maths
Take 5 podcasts aim to provide listeners with five points to consider for their classroom practice. TRIO discusses five ideas for teachers to reflect on as they think about the teaching of maths and what is important. Sandra Rowan and Jenny...
07.18.2022
Take 5 Episode 3: Leading For Literacy Change
Take 5 podcasts aim to provide listeners with five points to consider for their classroom practice. All teachers will take something from this discussion about changing the teaching of literacy to improve student learning outcomes but the focus on executive...
07.18.2022
Take 5 Episode 2: Grammar
Take 5 podcasts aim to provide listeners with five points to consider for their classroom practice. Many teachers seem nervous about teaching grammar. In this podcast TRIO discusses where to start and how to make the teaching of grammar connect...
07.18.2022
Take 5 Episode 1: Differentiation
Take 5 podcasts aim to provide listeners with five points to consider for their classroom practice. This podcast addresses the question of differentiation within primary classrooms. Students who may need differentiation are discussed. Differentiation of content, product, process and environment...
02.28.2022
The Teacher's Voice in Educational Assessment
Professor Jim Tognolini from the Centre for Educational Measurement and Assessment (CEMA), University of Sydney asserts that assessment is a central activity in all education and that its main function is to improve learning. He stresses that the teacher's voice...
02.18.2022
Measuring What We Value In Education
Professor Jim Tognolini explains how it is both possible, and important, to measure values. He explains the process that can be used to develop descriptors and rubrics to measure them. . . “Everything can be measured” “We should be measuring what...
08.26.2021
Off Class - New to a Country School K-12
Cath Jeffery guides you to success in regional and rural NSW… It is great to live in a country town. You can feel invested in the local history and valued in ways that build lifelong relationships. • Get to know your students...
08.20.2021
Low-SES Communities: Remote Possibilities Special Part II
Jowen Hillyer emphasises the importance of understanding unique school community needs and ensuring the structure of online schooling works for families... “I think we need to check our assumptions at the door a little but too... every parent wants the...
08.20.2021
When Online Works: Remote Possibilities Special Part I
Jowen Hillyer has experience building relationships, beginning new classes and teaching well in completely online subjects... “For mastery learning and formative tasks, when you’re working in the digital space, you’ve got this immediate feedback... you can see what is going on...
08.10.2021
Off Class - Support for Students with Disability K-12
Claudia Vera guides you to the support needed for students with disability... Remember, as a mainstream teacher, you cannot be expected to meet those specialist needs. Specialist provision is needed for students with disability. • Additional supports or accommodations may need to be...
08.09.2021
Off Class - Fast Help for New and Casual Teachers 7-12
Lloyd Bowen provides strategies for success for starting out in a new school... It is never too soon to ask for help. Start those ongoing professional discussions today. • Lessons need to be meaningful. • Build positive relationships. • Get to know students quickly. • Learn...
07.28.2021
Class Dynamics & Wellbeing Online: Remote Teaching Special Part III
Rosemary Henzell emphasises the role of teachers in supporting students and colleagues in this difficult and unusual setting... This is Part III in a three-part special series recorded during the Coronavirus situation and Public Health Orders affecting NSW. “It’s...
07.27.2021
Assessing Learning Online: Remote Teaching Special Part II
Rosemary Henzell reflects on the challenges of the online environment and the importance of noticing all your students and their learning... This is Part II in a three-part special series recorded during the Coronavirus situation and Public Health Orders affecting NSW....
07.26.2021
Setting Up Online: Remote Teaching Special Part I
Rosemary Henzell shares her experiences setting up manageable online lessons and plans... This is Part I in a three-part special series recorded during the Coronavirus situation and Public Health Orders affecting NSW. “We know we try to be organised always,...
07.22.2021
CPL Aboriginal Studies 11 12
Cath Jeffery explains why all schools should offer Aboriginal Studies... “Start and conversation and be informed about what the subject actually is. I think one of the biggest myths is that it’s only for Indigenous students... If you have students...
07.02.2021
Off Class - Try This: Classroom Management K-6
Kathryn Bellach suggests approaches to improve your classroom management... The mood in your class is set by your behaviour. If you are welcoming, encouraging and positive, the classroom will be too. • Explicitly teach behaviour. • Create a welcoming environment. • Be consistent...
06.28.2021
CPL Confidence Using Assessment Data and Statistics K-12
Jim Sturgiss and Gavin Parker want you to assess your students with confidence... There is a lot more assessment now... kids are tested beyond belief at this stage and there is no point having data if you are not...
05.18.2021
CPL Beginning Teaching in Country Schools K-12
Cath Jeffery has taught and raised her family in country NSW. She reflects on how she became invested in her students and town... “You’re kind of always on... and that can get a little bit draining at times... your parent...
04.29.2021
Off Class - Top 5 Classroom Management Tips 7-12
Lloyd Bowen shares some reliable strategies to begin with in any classroom now... Know the students and their community, their background, and their values. Learn what the wider community expects. • Stop and look around the class • Control the energy in the...
04.16.2021
CPL Researching Together for a Fair Go: JPL Special Edition Part I
Wayne Sawyer and Katina Zammit share some theory and findings of the teacher-research model of the Fair Go Program, which is celebrating its 21st anniversary... “We all came from an equity and social justice background... and we were very much...
03.26.2021
CPL Leading a High Expectations Curriculum 7-12
Lila Mularczyk and Maurie Mulheron insist public schools must maintain a comprehensive curriculum and that no option should be left unexplored to provide the full range of subjects... “Its very important that children, whether in Walgett or Woollahra, are...
02.24.2021
CPL Using the Language of Music K-8
Graham Sattler explores ways to talk about music with your students and how to make these conversations features of every classroom... “We have duration, pitch, dynamics, tone colour and structure... One of the significant things inside the syllabus and outside...
02.14.2021
CPL Anxiety & Supporting Students with Disability K-12
Rose Dixon explains what anxiety feels like and what you can do to look for warning signs in your students with special learning needs... “every adolescent wants to be popular and accepted... there is stigma in our society about difference and...
12.03.2020
CPL Critical Literacy
Kathy Rushton and Joanne Rossbridge discuss the essential concept of Critical Literacy. They explain why it is essential for teachers (in both primary and secondary classrooms) to teach our students how to critically analyse all texts and to help them...
10.12.2020
CPL Interview with Maurie Mulheron – In Defence of Public Education
In this special edition of the CPL Podcasts, Maurie Mulheron discusses the history, politics and ongoing debates surrounding public education in Australia. For information about contributors and the CPL Podcast, as well as the Centre for Professional Learning courses and professional...
05.12.2020
CPL Music Reading K - 6
Graham Sattler explains why it is essential to teach all K – 6 students to read music so that those students can play instruments in class. He gives some practical advice on how all primary teachers can teach these important...
01.30.2020
CPL Multimodal English And Digital Texts 7 - 12
Rosemary Henzell thinks introducing a variety of texts is good for students and their teachers… Note for listeners: This episode was originally recorded for the JPL Podcast, hence the references to the JPL Podcast throughout. For information about contributors and the JPL...
11.21.2019
CPL Creating Writers for Life K-6
Jenny Williams and Sandra Rowan discuss how teachers can create ‘writers for life’ in their K - 6 classrooms and encourage students to embrace writing and to enjoy it for their whole lives . . . “Our focus, as teachers, needs...
11.07.2019
CPL Legal Studies 11-12
Aarti Nand discusses teaching stage 6 Legal Studies and what you, as teachers, can do to encourage our students to choose this important subject and to help them to meet with success within it... Note for listeners: This episode was originally...
06.05.2019
CPL Multicultural Education K-12
Mark Harris, Chantel Mirzai and Cathy Clift discuss multicultural education and how they have made their school a really inclusive place to be… “We have a really strong understanding of our context, and balance that by keeping abreast with research...
04.28.2019
CPL Teaching EAL/D Students K-12
Kathy Rushton and Joanne Rossbridge make the case for specialist teachers for our EAL/D students… “Some students might be recognised as having support… if you go back to the research, students need about seven years to develop the English language,...
03.15.2019
CPL Early Career Teaching K-6
Jenny Williams and Mary-Ellen Betts take you from inspiration to reality and back again… “The key to being a successful teacher is seeing yourself as a constant learner… You can come into a school that has a lot of its...
02.14.2019
CPL Autism K-12
Rose Dixon suggests practical strategies to meet the needs of your students… “We need this extra special training to actually meet the needs of these special students… There is no cure for Autism … that doesn’t mean that we can’t...
12.20.2018
CPL Visual Arts 7-12
Kristy Pugliano and Alexandra Johnson explain why all students need to study the Creative Arts… “Visual Arts is subjective and students can have an opinion and have it valued… we encourage difference and we encourage diversity… People are inspired by...
11.19.2018
CPL Planning for Improved Cognition K - 6
Jenny Williams and Sandra Rowan explain what you can do to create a classroom where students are focussed on thinking... “I think a good place to start is to think about what our students are like now and what being in...
11.15.2018
CPL New History Extension Syllabus
Margaret Vos encourages all secondary schools to offer History Extension… “It’s a course which is incredibly valuable… it’s important for the continuation of history as a discipline … and because you get students who love history in your History Extension classes...
10.25.2018
CPL Why and How to Teach Mathematics 7-12
Eddie Woo and David Watson love teaching mathematics and you can too … “I became a Maths teacher because of my Year 12 Maths teacher… they came across as good people teaching good things… since then, I’ve been thinking about the...
09.20.2018
CPL The Making of a Teacher: Starting out in 1911
Beatrice Taylor began teaching in 1911 after just 6 weeks training. She was only 17 year old. Beatrice reflects on her experiences teaching at the outbreak of World War One, supervising classes of 70 students, and other oppressive conditions and...
07.24.2018
CPL Engagement in Science K-6
Dan Sprange knows the power and potential of engaging Science lessons… “We often sit at the front of our classrooms and think, yeah, we’ve covered that it’s all good, but if we were to sit in the minds of our students,...
06.25.2018
CPL Professional Teaching Standards K-12
Tom Alegounarias tells the story of the teaching standards in NSW and why they can be useful for teachers… “It is not possible to codify what constitutes quality… but we needed to build a discourse of professionalism beyond a simple...
06.06.2018
CPL New History Syllabus 11-12
Dr. Jennifer Lawless and Jonathon Dallimore discuss what to do with the new Stage 6 Ancient and Modern History courses and see much to be excited about… “I hope a lot of people will be willing to try some of...
05.21.2018
CPL Teachers as Researchers K-12
Les Perelman makes the case for teachers to do their own research into teaching writing… “If you think about most professions, think about medicine, they don’t have outside social scientists come in and do their research for them… It is absolutely...

What's CPL Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

CPL Podcast episodes:

Take 5 Episode 12: English Block

Take 5 Episode 11: Improving Writing

Take 5 Episode 10: Teach Poetry

Take 5 Episode 9: Working Mathematically

Take 5 Episode 8: Behaviour Management

Take 5 Episode 7: Principles Of Spelling

Take 5 Episode 6: Improving Spelling Through Conferences

Take 5 Episode 5: Guided Reading

Take 5 Episode 4: Maths

Take 5 Episode 3: Leading For Literacy Change

Take 5 Episode 2: Grammar

Take 5 Episode 1: Differentiation

The Teacher's Voice in Educational Assessment

Measuring What We Value In Education

Off Class - New to a Country School K-12

Low-SES Communities: Remote Possibilities Special Part II

When Online Works: Remote Possibilities Special Part I

Off Class - Support for Students with Disability K-12

Off Class - Fast Help for New and Casual Teachers 7-12

Class Dynamics & Wellbeing Online: Remote Teaching Special Part III

Assessing Learning Online: Remote Teaching Special Part II

Setting Up Online: Remote Teaching Special Part I

CPL Aboriginal Studies 11 12

Off Class - Try This: Classroom Management K-6

CPL Confidence Using Assessment Data and Statistics K-12

CPL Beginning Teaching in Country Schools K-12

Off Class - Top 5 Classroom Management Tips 7-12

CPL Researching Together for a Fair Go: JPL Special Edition Part I

CPL Leading a High Expectations Curriculum 7-12

CPL Using the Language of Music K-8

CPL Anxiety & Supporting Students with Disability K-12

CPL Critical Literacy

CPL Interview with Maurie Mulheron – In Defence of Public Education

CPL Music Reading K - 6

CPL Multimodal English And Digital Texts 7 - 12

CPL Creating Writers for Life K-6

CPL Legal Studies 11-12

CPL Multicultural Education K-12

CPL Teaching EAL/D Students K-12

CPL Early Career Teaching K-6

CPL Autism K-12

CPL Visual Arts 7-12

CPL Planning for Improved Cognition K - 6

CPL New History Extension Syllabus

CPL Why and How to Teach Mathematics 7-12

CPL The Making of a Teacher: Starting out in 1911

CPL Engagement in Science K-6

CPL Professional Teaching Standards K-12

CPL New History Syllabus 11-12

CPL Teachers as Researchers K-12