Hub Chats

In this episode, Professor Fay Hadley chats with Sene Gede, Centre Director at Boundary Lane Children’s Centre and Akram Eshaghi, Centre Director at Uniting Airlie Preschool Oatlands as they share their advice and strategies about engaging with culturally and linguistically diverse families. 

Professor Deborah Youdell, Dean of the Macquarie School of Education chats with Dr Tamara Bibby about psychoanalytic approaches in education. Tamara invites educators to think beyond rational “self-knowing” to the “incompleteness of knowing” in real, living classrooms using psychoanalytic ways of thinking. This episode is valuable listening for both new and experienced teachers. 

For more teacher resources and education inspiration, visit the Macquarie University Teachers’ Learning Hub. 

Following from our last episode about teaching in rural and remote schools, in this episode we discuss Early Childhood Education in rural locations. Dr Loraine Fordham chats with Michele Carnegie, Chief Executive Officer of CELA (Community Early Learning Australia) about supporting early learning in regional and remote communities across Australia. 

Visit the MQ Teachers' Learning Hub for more professional learning resources.

Ever thought about teaching in a rural location? Michael Fisher, placement coordinator for Far West NSW schools, talks about what it’s like teaching in rural communities and shares his vast experience of teaching and living in Broken Hill. 

Please find below the links to the programs and initiatives we discussed: 

Join Professor Matt Bower, Dr Jodie Torrington, and Dr Tamika Worrall as they follow up on the “Empowering education through AI: Revolution or evolution?” Arts After Dark event held recently at Macquarie University. We received an insightful range of questions from the audience on the night, and while we were unable to get to all of them, we are delighted to address them in this special episode of Hub Chats. 

Listen to the live event here. 

Find resources for AI in education at the Teachers’ Learning Hub. 

In this episode, education expert Rose Garofano shares her passion for literacy and discusses how every teacher can help develop student literacy skills through the explicit teaching of vocabulary. Rose shares the impact of this practice on student empowerment, engagement, and motivation. Learn how your students can “level up” their literacy abilities! 

In this episode, we continue our focus on out-of-field teaching in high schools, this time about teaching Society and Culture.  Kendra Bruseker, an experienced Society and Culture teacher, unpacks what you need to know, including how to support students’ Personal Interest Project (PIP). 

Click here to enrol in our “Help! I’m teaching Society and Culture for the first time” professional learning microcredential. 

In this episode, we are talking about out-of-field teaching in high schools – and focusing specifically on teaching Legal Studies.  Natasha Isbel, an ex-corporate lawyer and experienced Legal Studies teacher provides a wealth of advice for teachers who find themselves teaching Legal Studies for the first time. 

In this episode, Dr. Renee Preval-Mann explores the critical intersection of AI and education with expert Dr. Jodie Torrington. Discover practical strategies for pre-service teachers to effectively integrate AI tools in the classroom while maintaining professional judgment. Learn how to harness AI as a powerful thinking partner without surrendering your pedagogical expertise and human creativity. Essential listening for educators navigating the rapidly evolving digital landscape in schools. 

Here is the poster of the top 10 tips and techniques that Dr Brian Ballsun-Stanton and Dr Jodie Torrington have developed (CC-BY).

In this episode, MQ speech pathologist and lecturer Rebecca McNeil explains how speech pathologists can support individual students, small groups, and even work with whole classes to support communication differences and help establish safe and inclusive learning environments for all students.  

Resources mentioned in the episode:  

Communication milestones: https://www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au/Public/Public/Comm-swallow/Speech-development/Communication-milestones.aspx  

LEANS program: https://salvesen-research.ed.ac.uk/leans