Hub Chats

In this episode, visiting German scholar Dr. Andrea Tures discusses her new book “The difficult child? Responding professionally to challenging behaviour”. She encourages teachers to find out the reason for challenging behaviours, and highlights the importance of continual reflection and using appropriate strategies. Andrea discusses a 5-step model that can guide teachers in their response to perceived challenging behaviours, and promotes neuro-affirming practices in the classroom. 

In this episode, Bronwyn Tregenza discusses the intricacies of defining and implementing different types of creativity into the classroom. Explore the role teachers play in fostering both familiar and possibly unfamiliar forms of creativity in students, and how digital technologies can be integrated to support this.  

Technology in the Classroom  

In this episode, Dr Jodie Torrington discusses the impact of students having individual digital devices in the classroom. Discover how access to teacher-made, differentiated videos supports self-paced learning, empowering students to take charge of their education. Learn how this approach can not only boost student motivation but also enhance teacher wellbeing. 

Link to the paper discussed: Teacher-created video instruction in the elementary classroom—Its impact on students and teachers.

In this episode, Associate Professor Alice Chik explores the power of multilingual picture books in education. Learn how translating and teaching from Australian picture books fosters a deeper understanding of language and culture while making learning more inclusive and impactful for children and families from non-English speaking backgrounds. 

In this episode, we learn from renowned international expert Associate Professor Kathleen Tait about PBS – Positive Behaviour Support, the importance of explicitly teaching behaviour strategies to your students, and how effective understanding and communication can enhance the classroom environment and experience for everyone. 

In this episode, we learn from renowned international expert Associate Professor Kathleen Tait about the form and function of potential communicative acts and find out how to identify them. Kathleen shares strategies and advice for how to support communication in the classroom for students with complex communication needs. 

In this episode of our Inclusive Education series, we focus on neurodiversity and neurodivergent students. Dr Poulomee Datta, Lecturer in Inclusive Education, and Dr Anne McMaugh, Senior Lecturer in Educational Psychology and Child Development, chat about how to support neurodivergent students in the school context and discuss strategies for fostering a neuro-inclusive classroom.

Our Inclusive Education series continues: in this episode, we chat about sensory processing. Dr Diana Tan explains the eight senses, and shares strategies to support students with sensory processing differences in the classroom. 

Our Inclusive Education series begins with a chat with Inclusive Education lecturer, Dr Iliana Skrebneva and Trudy Smith from NextSense, who discuss how teachers can support deaf and hard of hearing students and foster an inclusive classroom where all students can thrive.  

In this episode, Dr Brian Ballsun-Stanton helps us understand how AI works, and chats about how we can best interact with frontier model LLMs (Large Language Models) to be effective users of AI technologies. We chat about the need to explicitly teach AI literacy to students, and what that looks like. 

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

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