Tes Podagogy

In this week's episode of the Tes magazine debrief podcast, we discuss: 

• How teaching changed forever in 2020
• The social perils of secret Santa
• How to make your primary classroom gender-neutral
• And our favourite childhood toys

In this week's episode of the Tes magazine debrief podcast, we discuss: 

• How schools can work with other agencies to support all pupils
• Why the state of your school loos matters
• And can we ever solve the motivation conundrum

In this week's episode of the Tes magazine debrief podcast, we discuss: 

• If learning is an innate skill inherited from prehistoric times
• How fancy - or not - your classroom greetings should be
• How to spot if there are SLT groups or gangs at your school
• Our most overused words

In this week's episode of the Tes magazine debrief podcast, we discuss: 

• What happens if you teach university-level content to Year 7s
• Why every school needs a behaviour beast
• If sex education should continue in post-16 education
• And why a new mug could be the perfect gift for teachers, maybe...

In this week's episode of the Tes magazine debrief podcast, we discuss: 

• The complex causes of distraction - and ways to target it
• Why donut leadership is a must
• How to cast your nativity play more fairly
• A new initiative connecting classrooms to care homes

This week on the mag debrief podcast, we talk about the 6 November issue, discussing:

• The self-diagnosis crisis hitting schools
• Why smiling - even fake smiling - is so important in teaching, and what face masks do to disrupt that
• How Covid-19 restrictions are hitting the social fabric of colleges

In this week's episode of the Tes magazine debrief podcast, we discuss: 

• A huge forgotten research project from the 1970s that proved the value of Direct Instruction - or did it...
• Why we can use our fists to teach pupils to regulate their anger
• The funny walk we all do as we approach a stage
• And we recall our scariest school moments ahead of Halloween

In this week's episode of the Tes magazine debrief podcast, we discuss: 

• Can your pedagogy be prejudiced
• Display board: Should they be eye-catching, or are they just a distraction?
• And how to run a school behaviour policy like the Premier League - sort of....

“Is there any research that says the school timetable we have adopted around the world is the right one?” asks Jared Cooney Horvath, a cognitive scientist at the University of Melbourne. “Believe it or not, there's little to none. Everyone just kind of assumes, this is what it's going to be, this is what it always has been. Let's go with it.”

On this episode of Podagogy, Horvath goes on to explore how we can translate the research we do have into insights about how we might want to structure the school day differently. During the Coronavirus, when schools are adapting timetables more than ever before, he has some rather useful advice.

So if we were to build a research-informed timetable, what would it look like?

In this week's episode of the Tes magazine debrief podcast, we discuss: 

• Why we need to be sensitive to the reasons teachers may not have children
• A wide-ranging discussion on school chairs- and can they ever change
• And the debate to end all debates: should you buy birthday cake on your own birthday for your fellow teachers?
• Plus we play our final round of Would I Lie To You?