Teacher Magazine (ACER)

Happy New Year from the team at Teacher magazine. In this bonus podcast episode, we’re delighted to share with you a sneak preview into what we have in the pipeline for Teacher podcasts in 2023.

Host: Dominique Russell

Another year is coming to a close and it’s time to look back on some of our podcast highlights from the past 12 months. Join the Teacher team as we reflect on some of our favourite podcast interviews this year, and share our top 3 personal favourite episodes from 2022.

Hosts: Rebecca Vukovic and Dominique Russell

Sponsor: The Victorian Government

In this series, we follow Principal Ray Boyd and Associate Principal Rachael Lehr as they navigate the exciting and challenging journey of building a new school community from the ground up. Each month, we touch base for updates and reflections on their progress as their new school, Dayton Primary School, is built in the newly developing suburb of Dayton, located in the eastern metropolitan city of Swan in Perth, Western Australia.

Last month, we spoke to Ray and Rachael about how they have connected with the community throughout the process of building up a new school. In this episode, we talk about the thought processes behind the physical build of the school, as well as the significance of the location itself.

Host: Zoe Kaskamanidis

Video games are a favourite pastime of both children and adults alike, and schools are therefore using them to engage students in their lessons. This month on Teacher, we published a reader submission that explored how digital gaming motivates Indigenous learners in primary school. In today’s episode, we share highlights from this piece and more.

Host: Rebecca Vukovic

Sponsor: Bank First

Each year, in our Teacher survey, we ask readers and listeners what they’d like more information on in the coming 12 months. In the 2022 survey, lots of you said you’d like more support on the issue of bullying in schools, prevention and intervention strategies, and related school policies. In a recent 2-part Q&A with Dr Kristin Reimer, we unpacked the framework of Restorative Justice and looked at how it can operate in a school context. In this episode of our Behaviour Management podcast series, we're delighted that our guest is Professor Ken Rigby – Adjunct Professor at the University of South Australia and a leading international researcher in the area of bullying in schools.

Over the course of the next 35 minutes we’ll be talking about changes over the last 20 years in the way schools have understood and dealt with bullying, what incidents may look like in different age groups, signs for teachers to be on the lookout for, and elements of a school anti-bullying policy. Professor Rigby will also be unpacking his latest piece of work – called the Comprehensive Bullying Model.

Host: Jo Earp

Guest: Ken Rigby

In this episode of our podcast series School Assembly, we speak with Principal Ray Boyd and Associate Principal Rachael Lehr about how they have connected with their new school community, in the lead up to the opening of Dayton Primary School in Western Australia next year.

Host: Zoe Kaskamanidis

In this episode of The Research Files, we’re focusing on The Smith Family’s Pathways, Engagement and Transition Study. We’ll be unpacking some of the early findings and student feedback on how teachers and careers advisers can best support them in making informed decisions about possible jobs and pathways, connecting with employers, and applying for further study or training.

Host: Jo Earp

Guest: Anne Hampshire, Head of Research and Advocacy at The Smith Family

This month at Teacher, we’ve shared a range of content on teacher welfare – from how to access supports at your school, to coping with violence from students. In this episode of Teacher Staffroom, we bring you up to date on these stories and more highlights from October.

Host: Zoe Kaskamanidis

Student violence directed at school educators is a common issue. Sadly, for many of you listening, it will be something you’ve experienced in your career, and for some it may be a regular occurrence.

Our guests for this episode of The Research Files are David Stevenson, a provisional psychologist and behaviour support practitioner, and Assistant Professor James Neill, from the Discipline of Psychology, School of Health Sciences and Faculty of Health at the University of Canberra. Along with Kayla Ball, Rebecca Smith and Melena Shores, they’ve just published a new the paper in the Australian Journal of Education, it’s called 'How do preschool to year 6 educators prevent and cope with occupational violence from students?' In the study, educators in the ACT (that’s the Australian Capital Territory for those listening internationally) were asked about the frequency and impact of occupational violence, and the prevention and coping strategies they used and found effective.

Host: Jo Earp

Guests: David Stevenson and James Neill

In this series, we follow Principal Ray Boyd and Associate Principal Rachael Lehr as they navigate the exciting and challenging journey of building a new school community from the ground up. Each month, we touch base for updates and reflections on their progress as their new school, Dayton Primary School, is built in the newly developing suburb of Dayton, located in the eastern metropolitan city of Swan in Perth, Western Australia.

Last month, we spoke to Ray and Rachael about setting short- and long-term goals. In this episode, we speak with Ray and Rachael about all things ‘planning’, including how they plan to budgets, how they use visual planning techniques, as well as questions of collaboration and delegation.

Host: Zoe Kaskamanidis

Guests: Ray Boyd and Rachael Lehr