Hello to all our listeners, and we hope you're enjoying the tail end of a well deserved summer break!

We recently popped in to the studio to have a brief look back at season 6 and discuss some of our favourite moments that you might want to listen to if you missed them. 

Then it was time to lift the lid on a few things you can look forward to in season 7, which kicks off on the 6th September. 

If you've stuck with us for the long haul, thanks for being with us, and if you're a new listener, welcome and we hope you enjoy our podcast. 

Don't forget you can watch us on youtube - our channel is at youtube.com/@talkteachingpod and our handle on Twitter/X is @talkteachingpod

If you like what you hear, why not leave us a rating or review? 

See you on the 6th!

Best wishes from Emma and Tom

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Recorded in studio B2.15 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 9th August 2024

We've reached the end of season 6 of the podcast, and thanks to all our listeners for coming along for the ride!

Today we bring you a live recording of a panel discussion we put on for our PGCE Secondary student teachers. The panellists were the international curriculum consultant and bestselling author Lucy Crehan, former educational journalist Dr Gareth Evans who's now director of education policy at Yr Athrofa, UWTSD, and Matthew Maughan who's deputy headteacher at Bassaleg School in Newport.

We asked them to tell our student teachers where they need to look and what they need to prioritise as they join the profession early in the implementation of the new Curriculum for Wales. But if you're listening from outside Wales, there are plenty of universal bits of advice to help everyone make their way as teachers!

Thanks to all our panellists, and to the student teachers who asked the questions. We'll be back in the new academic year with season 7 - see you there!

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Recorded live in Lecture Theatre 1 on 20th March 2024 (panel discussion) and studio B2.15 on 24th April 2024 (Emma and Tom opening and closing sections) at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus.

For this episode we welcome (and bow down to) our colleague Kerry Bevan! Programme leader for PGCE secondary languages, but also still a practising languages teacher in school, Kerry recently completed her thesis for the National MA Education (Wales) programme and stormed to a mark in the 90s for her research into perceptions of decolonising the languages curriculum.

In today's discussion, Kerry tells us about the subject-specific issues around a white, Euro-centric approach to languages, and what her research told her about new teachers' perceptions of the problems and potential future advances that could contribute to Wales's ambition to be an anti-racist country.

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Recorded in studio B2.15 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 20th November 2023

We always like a good collaboration here on Cardiff Met's initial teacher education (ITE) programmes! Today we welcome to the studio our colleague Sioned Dafydd, and podcast veteran (from all the way back in season 1, no less) Sarah Cason from Palmerston Primary School. Since she joined us last time, Sarah has been upgraded to headteacher, and has a key role in partnership with Cardiff Met, creating the best possible experiences for our student teachers.

The project, funded by two regional school improvement consortia (CSC and EAS), aimed to improve people's understanding of Wales's very aspirational, holistic professional standards for teaching and leadership (PSTL), but ended up giving us wider insights into how professional dialogue helps new members of the teaching profession to learn and develop.

Hopefully, whether you're in Wales or further afield, you'll get useful ideas and pointers about setting up really meaningful professional dialogues which make the complex work of teaching accessible, and open up paths to improvement for new teachers. If you find this useful in your own context, why not give us a shout - we're @talkteachingpod on X (or Twitter as we can't stop calling it) and would love to hear from you.

You can find all the project videos at https://youtube.com/@sharedunderstanding

This episode can be watched on YouTube over on our channel: https://youtube.com/@talkteachingpod

Podcast artwork: Beth Blandford (blandoodles)

Music: Cameron Stewart

Editor: Tom Breeze

Studio Manager: Adrian Rapps

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Recorded in studio B2.15 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed campus on 12th November 2023.

Happy new year! Despite Emma and Tom both being performing arts specialists, we've never had an episode on the podcast about dance. Having recently met and collaborated with National Dance Company Wales, we didn't want to miss an opportunity to invite them to our studio to talk all about this very special art form.

Paul Kaynes and Maris Lyons from NDCW talk to us about what makes dance unique, the challenges and opportunities of incorporating dance into the curriculum, and how NDCW support schools with exciting events and resources to dip their toe into what can be an intimidating subject to some.

You can find the company and their resources at ndcwales.co.uk and their performances at the Dance House in the Wales Millennium Centre and on tour around the country and the world!

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Recorded in studio B2.15 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 7th December 2023

Merry Christmas one and all! Yet again we find ourselves between Christmas and New Year, hopefully enjoying a well-earned break. And for the sixth time we have entered the studio with a total of twelve (one for each day of Christmas) weird and wonderful gifts for our listeners. 

This year we have everything from poetry to scary sounds, from the joys of solitude to a nostalgic unsung hero of music, to join you while you recharge the batteries or set out on some nice long walks to blow away the cobwebs. We hope you enjoy this extra-long light episode, and wish you all the best for a restful break and a happy new year. 

You can watch us recording this episode on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/DLhu7LRIq88 - and we make good use of the shiny new big screen, so if you haven't checked out our vide versions yet, take a look!

PS - we have truncated Anna Lapwood's recording from the Albert Hall to try and stay on the right side of 'fair use' copyright provisions. If you want to hear the whole thing, you can watch on YouTube here.

Best wishes from Emma & Tom 

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Recorded in studio B2.15 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 13th December 2023

As an initial teacher education (ITE) institution, we spend a lot of our time thinking about mentoring student teachers, especially how to support our school-based colleagues who undertake this vital role. Our colleagues in the regional school improvement consortia think about it too, especially with their responsibility for mentoring newly-qualified teachers (NQTs).

One consortium, Central South Consortium, carried out an appreciative enquiry to try and get hold of the very best mentoring practice out there in South Wales, and that's what we're talking about in today's episode. Joining us in the studio are Lucy Donovan from CSC, and Sharne Watkins from Cardiff Met.

What is an appreciative enquiry? How can I be a great mentor? Is mentoring student teachers and NQTs different? Have a listen and find out, and then get yourself straight to the CSC website to have a read!

You can listen to this episode wherever you get your podcasts, or watch us in action on our YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@talkteachingpod

Podcast artwork: Beth Blandford (blandoodles)

Music: Cameron Stewart

Editor: Tom Breeze

Studio Manager: Adrian Rapps

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Recorded in studio B2.15 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed campus on 11th November 2023.

We break new ground for the podcast today by having two guests from His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC)! HMRC are the organisation who administer tax in the UK, and a little known fact about them is that they have volunteers who go into schools to deliver HMRC's very own programme of lessons all about tax - Tax Facts!

We're very grateful to Amy Healey and Heather Hughes from HMRC who joined us in person and down-the-line from Newcastle to talk about the programme and what's involved. Thanks also to our very own Cameron Stewart, programme leader for PGCE Secondary Maths, who joined us to reflect on what this means for schools here in Wales who'd like to use external organisations to add a new angle to the subject of maths.

If you'd like a Tax Facts ambassador to visit, you can email hmrc.taxeducation@hmrc.gov.uk or visit the Tax Facts page on the gov.uk website.

We'll be back in two weeks - see you then!

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Recorded in studio D0.18 on 14th August 2023 (HMRC discussion) and studio B2.15 on 29th September 2023 (Cameron Stewart discussion)

 Mae Tameidiau o Ymchwil TAR yn cyflwyno ymchwil gorau myfyrwyr ar gyrsiau Addysg Gychwynnol i Athrawon gyda Phartneriaeth Caerdydd. Yn y bennod hon mae Martha Morse (TAR Uwchradd Cymraeg) yn trafod sut yr aeth ati i ddysgu mwy am strategaethau cefnogi ac ymestyn disgyblion Mwy Abl a Thalentog mewn Ieithoedd. Gallwch hefyd wrando ar Tameidiau o Ymchwil TAR ar ffurf glywedol drwy danysgrifio i bodlediadau Emma and Tom Talk Teaching, ar gael ar blatfformau cyffredin podlediadau.Gallwch wylio'r bennod hon ar YouTube - youtube.com/@cardiffpartnership

We're back from half term with a few changes - Emma's got married and now has a shiny new surname, and we've moved in to our very swish podcast studio. That means you can watch us making the podcast by going to youtube.com/@talkteachingpod and also means that we owe some grateful thanks to our new friends at Cardiff Met's BSc and MSc Sports Broadcast programmes for their support in designing and equipping the studio we now share with them and their students.

Today, we're talking about an important article for those of us who look after student teachers. Kriewaldt and Turnage published Conceptualising an approach to clinical reasoning in the education profession in 2013, and today we discuss what the article tells us, and the tools it provides to enrich mentor/student dialogue on placement.

If you want to read the article yourself you can go here.

Podcast artwork: Beth Blandford (blandoodles)

Music: Cameron Stewart

Editor: Tom Breeze

Studio Manager: Adrian Rapps

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Recorded in studio B2.15 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed campus on 26th October 2023.

For our final English-language research bite of this block, Tom is joined by PGCE Secondary RE student (and now NQT teaching four different subjects!) Bethany Maunders. For her second assignment, Bethany looked into how to challenge her more able pupils without just piling more and more work onto them.

She settled on the idea of oracy as a skill to stretch her strongest pupils, and found that concentrating on this as an intervention had benefits for all her pupils.

Thanks to Bethany for joining us for this episode, and don't forget you can watch all our research bites on our YouTube channel: www.YouTube.com/@cardiffpartnership

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Recorded in studio B0.17 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 7th July 2023

Welcome to another of our specials where we let our hair down and have some fun with a bunch of random items culled from the furthest corners of the internet!

From academic research to musings about email etiquette, we've got it all for you, and we hope you enjoy our chat.

As ever, we'll be back in a fortnight with our normal service!

You can find more from our choices here:

BERA Blog: ‘Being well’ and ‘doing well’: Exploring the relationship between student and teacher wellbeing

Statues: Articles by James Marriott and Oliver Moody

Christopher Nolan: Desert Island Discs

Email signatures: Harming the environment?!

Michael Rosen: Guide to Education

Voices: Quentin Letts's political sketch, Video of Glenda Jackson, Janan Ganesh on Voice Privilege

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Recorded in studio D0.18 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 15th August 2023

Strap in and prepare yourselves for another roller-coaster ride as regular guest Dr Kevin Smith from Cardiff University is back in the studio, and this time he's brought sweets!

Kev is here to talk about Currere, an approach to considering curriculum which might be refreshing to those of us who work in the world of education. We'll leave it to Kev to explain all about it, but you can also find a list of resources and links below.

Dr Kev says:

https://www.currereexchange.com/currere-exchange-journal.html - this is the Currere Exchange Journal. It is a journal solely dedicated to Currere work and welcomes submissions from everyone teachers, academics, etc. They also offer a 'Currere exchange' event where people take part in, and learn about, the currere method. This year it is a virtual event (here are the details: https://www.currereexchange.com/registration.html). 

https://journal.jctonline.org/index.php/jct - this is the link to the Journal of Curriculum Theorising. My friend/colleague Tom Poetter is currently the editor, but he is stepping down this year after a long, six-year stint. They have just released the older issues from the 70s/80s that had key publications in critical, reconceptualist approaches to curriculum, so definitely worth browsing! They also have an annual conference (http://www.jctonline.org/conference/ in October.). Bill Pinar, who developed the currere method and introduced 'reconceptualist' approaches to curriculum is one of the keynote speakers.

Also, here is the URL to my blog that has a few posts related to 'currere' as well as other topics we've discussed in other episodes: https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/drkevinsmith/ and this is the link to my paper Ambulare: https://cej.lib.miamioh.edu/index.php/CEJ/article/view/209.

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Recorded in studio B2.15 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 24th April 2024

Mae Tameidiau o Ymchwil TAR yn cyflwyno ymchwil gorau myfyrwyr ar gyrsiau Addysg Gychwynnol i Athrawon gyda Phartneriaeth Caerdydd. Yn y bennod hon mae Mari Price (TAR Uwchradd Cymraeg) yn trafod sut yr aeth ati i ddysgu mwy am strategaethau cefnogi ac ymestyn sgiliau llafar disgyblion, gan ffocysu ar egwyddorion Llais 21 / Ein Llais ni yn y sector uwchradd cyfrwng Cymraeg. Gallwch hefyd wrando ar Tameidiau o Ymchwil TAR ar ffurf glywedol drwy danysgrifio i bodlediadau Emma and Tom Talk Teaching, ar gael ar blatfformau cyffredin podlediadau.Gallwch wylio'r bennod hon ar YouTube - youtube.com/@cardiffpartnership

It's a welcome return to the podcast for Dr Kevin Smith from Cardiff University this week. Dr Kev has done sterling work on our live panel discussions, as well as previously joining us from the depths of coronavirus lockdown, when it emerged that Dr Kev was keeping busy formulating a curriculum of salsa (you had to be there) as Tom battled to keep the lines working from his shed to Emma and Dr Kev's respective houses while leaning on the inside of the door to stop his children from breaking in during the recording. Ah, lockdown... we don't miss you here in podcast land.

Happily, Dr Kev and his impressive collection of tattoos have joined us in person in our temporary podcast studio for this recording, in which we discuss how we can recognise, develop and articulate our personal philosophies of education. This helps us when we need to try and assimilate books by various edu-celebs, advice from colleagues and edicts from our bosses into a teaching practice that fits with our own epistemological, ontological, axiological and ethical position while also (quite importantly) doing the right thing by the kids.

Dr. Kev has lots of advice, theorists, book recommendations and stories to help us on our journey, and also has a good go at making the very long words in the paragraph above accessible to all of us. Dr Kev, we salute you!

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Recorded in studio B0.17 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 2nd August 2023

We welcome Christy Scott back to Research Bites, noting that she is only the second student teacher to make two appearances during her PGCE. Congratulations, Christy!

For her second assignment, Christy was keen to find out what strategies she could put in place in her primary school classroom to try and foster a more positive, motivated attitude towards maths in her pupils. A keen advocate of maths herself, Christy was sad to find that her pupils didn't share her enthusiasm, that maths anxiety was a significant issue for her pupils, and that there was a significant gender gap in pupils' feelings about the subject.

Following a review of the literature, Christy settled on the use of play to help modify her pupils' feelings about maths while also improving their knowledge.

Thanks to Christy for joining us again to share her research!

Finally, don't forward that you can watch this discussion in video form by going to the Professional Learning with the Cardiff Partnership channel at www.youtube.com/@cardiffpartnership

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Recorded in studio B0.17 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 27th June 2023.

It's time for another live panel discussion, a format we conveniently discovered a few weeks before the coronavirus lockdown, and then had to wait three years to have another go at! Now we're making up for lost time with another one, live from the Newport City Campus of our friends, the University of South Wales.

The National Professional Enquiry Project has been running in Wales for a number of years now, and today's episode comes from a conference celebrating the project. We're joined by Sian Sarwar from Cardiff Met, and Lisa Taylor (friend of the podcast!) and Dr Cath Jones from USW, to discuss experiences of enquiry. No live episode is complete without some audience Q&A at the end, too.

Thanks to our hosts, USW, for looking after us, our audience and questioners, and to Gemma Mitchell for reprising her role as keeper of the microphone on a very long wire.

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Recorded live at the University of South Wales's Newport City campus on 6th July 2023

Mae Tameidiau o Ymchwil TAR yn cyflwyno ymchwil gorau myfyrwyr ar gyrsiau Addysg Gychwynnol i Athrawon gyda Phartneriaeth Caerdydd. Yn y bennod hon mae Eloise Bennett yn trafod sut yr aeth ati i ddysgu mwy am rôl y Celfyddydau Mynegiannol, yn arbennig celf, wrth helpu plant ag anhwylder ar y sbectrwm awtistiaeth i ddelio gyda symptomau gorbryder. Gallwch hefyd wrando ar Tameidiau o Ymchwil TAR ar ffurf glywedol drwy danysgrifio i bodlediadau Emma and Tom Talk Teaching, ar gael ar blatfformau cyffredin podlediadau.Gallwch wylio'r bennod hon ar YouTube - youtube.com/@cardiffpartnership

We welcome back a newly-doctorised (?) Elizabeth MacGregor to the podcast this week. Last time we spoke to Elizabeth we were all in the depths of Covid lockdown and she was embarking on her PhD. Now the results of that research are starting to appear in the form of articles, and Elizabeth is going from strength to strength as an academic having signed a book deal and started editing a journal!

Elizabeth joins us down the line today from Cambridge to discuss her findings on musical vulnerability: the idea that music is uniquely-placed to affect people both semantically and somatically, and the implications of that for the classroom. Elizabeth tells us what she found out, what it means for us, and gives some golden tips for the next cohort of student teachers, whatever their subject specialism.

Stick around for Elizabeth's book and podcast recommendations, too!

You can read Dr Elizabeth's latest article (open-access) here.

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Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus, and remotely, on 19th June 2023

PGCE Research Bites is back for another run! Today, PGCE Art and Design student teacher Hannah Woodward joins Emma to discuss her work on developing pupils' oracy skills through supporting their vocabulary. Hannah spent her second placement in a special school setting, and this discussion covers how Hannah came to notice that her pupils were not all confident to speak in class, what she did about it, and what she learnt from the experience.

You can watch the video of this discussion on our Professional Learning with the Cardiff Partnership YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@cardiffpartnership

Thanks to Hannah for joining us to share her research!

Our Welsh-language strand, Tameidiau o Ymchwil TAR returns in a fortnight.

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Recorded in studio B0.17 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 21st June 2023

Welcome back to Emma and Tom Talk Teaching, and our sixth season of podcasting!

In this first episode of the new academic year, we've got an interview with Gareth Rein, headteacher of St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School in Cardiff. Gareth is a long-time friend of the podcast, but hasn't had his own episode - until now! When he took over the reins of his current school, Gareth was presented with a challenging situation: it was the middle of the Covid lockdown, the school was in special measures, and he was the sixth headteacher in a very short period of time. Where many school leaders might have seriously considered running for the hills, Gareth saw this as a once-in-a-career opportunity to really go for it.

A passionate advocate of using research to influence improvements, Gareth has set about realiseing his vision for the school, and today we talk about how research and professional learning have been a vital part of this, as well as his own approach to leadership.

Finally, Gareth gives the newest members of the teaching profession some top tips to set off with an open mind and an appetite for research and enquiry. Our very grateful thanks to Gareth for his hospitality and his time!

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Recorded at St Peter's RC Primary School, Cardiff on 9th June 2023

Hello to all our listeners - we're in the middle of the podcast summer hiatus, and just checking in to reflect on the last year and look forward to the next.

We're amazed to have completed five years of podcasting - thanks to everyone for listening! We've already got lots of goodies lined up for season 6, so please do tune in on the 8th of September.

Enjoy the rest of the summer, and we'll be back soon!

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Recorded in studio B0.17 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 21st July 2023

We've reached the end of our fifth year of podcasting, so a huge thank you to everyone who's been along for the ride so far!

Our final episode this year was recorded in front of a live (and very quiet!) audience of PGCE primary and PGCE secondary student teachers at the Cardiff Met PGCE Research Conference 2023. The theme of the session was how we can use research to help us make the new Curriculum for Wales a success.

Our panel of experts in this episode is:

Rebecca Roach from Central South Consortium

Ceri Prosser from St Teilo's Church in Wales High School in Cardiff

Dr Kevin Smith from Cardiff University

Richard Jones from Welsh Government

Everyone on the stage has been a classroom teacher at some point during their career (and obviously Ceri still is!) and so the discussions about the place of research are firmly rooted in doing the best for the people who matter most: the pupils in our classrooms.

After a five minute presentation each, our panel took questions from the audience. Even if you're not in Wales, we hope there's plenty of useful material to take away into your own context as we approach the end of another year.

Thanks for listening, and best wishes from Emma and Tom

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Recorded live in lecture theatre 1 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 26th May 2023.

Conferences are a great opportunity to find new guests for the podcast, and last November's Scottish Educational Research Association (SERA) conference in Edinburgh didn't disappoint!

Dr Lisa Reed from the University of Dundee joins us down the line to discuss how we can ensure we're being ethical when carrying out school-based research, especially when we're also working in that school as a teacher. With more and more teachers engaging in research and enquiry in their own classrooms and schools, it's increasingly important to take a step back and think carefully about how we navigate the blurred lines between our identities as researcher, teacher and colleague in these situations.

Thanks to Dr Lisa for joining us, and anyone wanting to follow her on Twitter/X can find her at @phdindeed

We'll be back with more in a fortnight!

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Recorded in studio B2.15 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus (with remote guest) on 28th February 2024

Rapidly attaining the status of podcasting legend, Dr Louise Allen-Walker returns to our studio for another fun-filled adventure in the world of neuroscience. Louise is the programme director for Cardiff Met's MSc Psychology in Education programme, and is therefore well-placed to give us some interesting psychological goodies to help us in our teaching practice, as well as to bust some more examples of neuroscience being used in ways that are confusing, inaccurate or just plain dodgy.

Louise has brought along one of her favourite books: The Science of Learning: 99 studies every teacher needs to know. The book presents 99 two-page summaries of seminal studies and unpacks the implications for the classroom teacher in a highly accessible format - no psychology expertise required!

In this episode, we discuss four studies which cover cognitive load, resilience, interaction with nature and the ominously-named 'seduction of neuroscience'. Louise also brings us something interesting and something to try, because you don't get to be a programme director without a serious commitment to doing your homework.

Louise's first episode recorded down-the-line during Covid was memorable for an appearance by the infamous 'neuromyth van' outside her house (you'll have to listen to find out what we're on about). In her second she was challenged to bust as many neuromyths as she could against the clock. Will we come up with something else bizarre for Louise this time around? Listen in and find out!

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Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 15th May 2023

For today's research bite, Emma is in conversation with Danielle Kates from our PGCE Primary programme. Danielle was keen to investigate ways to improve her pupils' reading comprehension, so she carried out a review of literature in order to make recommendations for her placement schools and her own practice.

You can download Danielle's summary of her research here, and you can watch the video version of this conversation on our YouTube channel.

Thanks to Danielle for joining us to share her research!

Danielle's sources were:

Blything, L.P., Hardie, A. and Cain, K. (2020) ‘Question Asking During Reading Comprehension Instruction: A Corpus Study of How Question Type Influences the Linguistic Complexity of Primary School Students’ Responses’, Reading research quarterly, 55(3), pp. 443–472. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.279.

Estyn (2021), English language and literacy insetting and primary schools. Available at: https://www.estyn.gov.wales/system/files/2022-01/Estyn%20English%20language%20and%20literacy%20E%289%29.pdf

Filderman, M.J. et al. (2022) ‘A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Reading Comprehension Interventions on the Reading Comprehension Outcomes of Struggling Readers in Third Through 12th Grades’, Exceptional children, 88(2), pp. 163–184. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/00144029211050860.

García, J.R. and Cain, K. (2014) ‘Decoding and Reading Comprehension: A Meta-Analysis to Identify Which Reader and Assessment Characteristics Influence the Strength of the Relationship in English’, Review of educational research, 84(1), pp. 74–111. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3102/0034654313499616.

James, E. et al. (2021) ‘The relations between morphological awareness and reading comprehension in beginner readers to young adolescents’, Journal of research in reading, 44(1), pp. 110–130. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9817.12316.

Logan, J. (2017) ‘Pressure Points in Reading Comprehension: A Quantile Multiple Regression Analysis’, Journal of educational psychology, 109(4), pp. 451–464. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000150.

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Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 31st March 2023.

We welcome Sioned Dafydd back to our studio today. Welsh-speaking listeners to the podcast will be very familiar with Sioned, and she has been working with Emma and Tom on a project to develop an understanding of how to support new members of the profession as they learn and develop.

There's some discussion of the Professional Standards for Teaching and Leadership in Wales, but even for listeners outside the country, there's plenty to think about in terms of the processes and ways thinking that characterise new teachers as they learn.

You can see the videos from the project at www.youtube.com/@sharedunderstanding

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Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 18th April 2023

For today's PGCE Research Bite, Tom is joined by Christy Scott from PGCE Primary. Christy has carried out some research for her school about how to create classroom spaces which motivate pupils to read.

In this episode, Christy explains to Tom what she found out from her research, and the recommendations she made for her school.

You can also watch this discussion on our youtube channel at youtube.com/@cardiffpartnership

Thanks to Christy for sharing her work! You can download her infographic here.

Christy's six main sources are:

Barrett, P., Davies, F., Zhang, Y. and Barrett, L. (2015) ‘The Impact of Classroom Design on Pupils’ Learning: Final Results of a Holistic, Multi-level Analysis’, Building and Environment, 89(89), pp.118–133.

Chou, M.-J., Cheng, J.-C. and Cheng, Y.-W. (2016) ‘Operating Classroom Aesthetic Reading Environment to Raise Children’s Reading Motivation’, Universal Journal of Educational Research, 4(1), pp.81–97.

Oakley, G., Wildy, H. and Berman, Y. (2018) ‘Multimodal Digital Text Creation Using Tablets and Open-ended Creative Apps to Improve the Literacy Learning of Children in Early Childhood Classrooms’, Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 20(4),

pp.655-679.

Suggate, S., Pufke, E. and Stoeger, H. (2016) ‘The Effect of Fine and Grapho-motor Skill Demands on Preschoolers’ Decoding Skill’, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 141, pp.34–48.

Campbell, S. (2021) ‘What’s Happening to Shared Picture Book Reading in an Era of Phonics First?’, The Reading Teacher, 74(6), pp.757-767.

Fisher, A.V., Godwin, K.E. and Seltman, H. (2014) ‘Visual Environment, Attention Allocation, and Learning in Young Children’, Psychological Science, 5(7), pp.1362–1370.

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Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 24th March 2023

It's time to turn the tables on Emma and find out about her doctoral research in progress! Emma is investigating pedagogical content knowledge, a seminal concept in teaching, and specifically how we support student teachers to develop it.

She's been working hard on her literature review, and Tom's here to ask all the questions about what it might mean for those who support new members of the profession.

If you want to read Shulman's seminal 1986 paper, Those who understand, you can find it here.

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Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 18th April 2023

Mae Tameidiau o Ymchwil TAR yn cyflwyno ymchwil gorau myfyrwyr ar gyrsiau Addysg Gychwynnol i Athrawon gyda Phartneriaeth Caerdydd. Yn y bennod hon mae Nia Jefferies yn trafod sut yr aeth ati i ddysgu mwy am sut mae gemau cyfrifiadurol yn gallu datblygu sgiliau rhif plant oed cynradd. Gallwch hefyd wrando ar Tameidiau o Ymchwil TAR ar ffurf glywedol drwy danysgrifio i bodlediadau Emma and Tom Talk Teaching, ar gael ar blatfformau cyffredin podlediadau.Gallwch wylio'r bennod hon ar YouTube - youtube.com/@cardiffpartnership



It's been ages since we did a book review, and today we bring you the smallest book yet! Beginning Teachers' Learning is a slim volume but full of fascinating insights for anyone who works with novice teachers. We've got an in-depth review for you, and hopefully you'll be keen to get hold of your own copy once you've listened! You can find all the details here: https://www.criticalpublishing.com/beginning-teachers-learning

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Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 1st March 2023

For our latest episode of PGCE Research Bites, Dr. Sally Bethell is joined by Meredith Bawks from our PGCE Secondary PE programme. Meredith's research was sparked by seeing a pupil with autism in her PE class who was distressed and unable to participate in the lesson. Meredith saw an opportunity to put her assignment to good use in looking for strategies to support her pupil, and today's presentation is the result.

Meredith's recommendations are relevant to subjects across the curriculum, and it's especially good to see Meredith presenting today, as she was a Research Bites viewer before coming on the PGCE programme, and wasn't expecting to be called up to contribute!

Thanks to Meredith for making her visual summary available, which you can download here.

If you'd like to see the video version of this episode, you can head over to our YouTube channel, Professional Learning with the Cardiff Partnership.

Meredith's main sources are:

Dillon, G.V., Underwood, J.D. and Freemantle, L.J. (2016) “Autism and the U.K. Secondary School Experience,” Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 31(3), pp. 221–230.

Lamb, P., Firbank, D. and Aldous, D. (2014) “Capturing the world of physical education through the eyes of children with autism spectrum disorders,” Sport, Education and Society, 21(5), pp. 698–722.

Grenier, M. (2014) “Accessing the Curriculum Through the Inclusion Spectrum,” in Physical Education for students with autism spectrum disorders: A comprehensive approach. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, pp. 17–25.

Houston-Wilson, C. (2022) “Chapter 10 - Autism Spectrum and Social Communication Disorders,” in J.P. Winnick and D.L. Porretta (eds) Adapted Physical Education and Sport. 7th edn. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, Inc., pp. 195–212.

Dieringer, S.T. et al. (2017) “Increasing physical activity in children with autism through music, prompting, and modeling,” Psychology in the Schools, 54(4), pp. 421–432

Gordon, V. and Pennington, C.G. (2022) “Tips for including individuals with autism in Physical Education,” Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 93(1), pp. 58–60.

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Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 17th March 2023

It's the Easter break, and we've come to our beloved studio B2.16, plagued as it is with the noise of building work and passing students, with a pile of thought-provoking material from books, podcasts and the news.

How can we reduce inequities for pupils in poverty? How do we effectively challenge deficit perspectives in student teachers? What's going on with pupil behaviour policies which insist on 'standard English'? Why did that man just give me a bunch of flowers and run away?

All of these questions, and more, will be chewed over and flogged half to death in an episode that includes some upsetting content and strong language.

You can find the content that inspired us here:

Enser, Z. and Enser, M (2020) Fiorella and Mayer's Generative Learning in Action. Woodbridge: John Catt.

'More darts and laurels' - Transom.org (Sound School podcast)

John Humphrys - Radio Moments: Conversations

Thompson, I (2017) Tackling social disadvantage through teacher education. St Albans: Critical Publishing.

Cushing, I. (2021), 'Language, discipline and "teaching like a champion"'. British Educational Research Journal, 47(1), pp.23-41.

Quigley, A (2018), Closing the Vocabulary Gap. Abingdon: Routledge

‘They filmed me without my consent’: the ugly side of #kindness videos - The Guardian

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Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 27th February 2023

PGCE research bites is back! Our student teachers have completed the latest set of assignments in which they address an area of interest or need in their schools. Reviewing the literature and outlining arguments and recommendations, our student teachers have all presented a visual summary of their research to their schools. Over the next few weeks we're bringing some of the best work to a wider audience in podcast and video form.

Today, Cara Whitfield from PGCE Secondary Drama discusses with Emma her research into creating accountable anti-racist spaces in the drama classroom.

If you'd like to see this podcast in video form, you can check out the Professional Learning with the Cardiff Partnership YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@cardiffpartnership

Thanks to Cara for making her visual summary available, which you can download here.

Cara's six sources are:

Williams, C., 2021. Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities, Contributions and

Cynefin in the New Curriculum Working Group. Available at:

https://dera.ioe.ac.uk/37607/1/black-asian-minority-ethnic-communities-contributions-cynefin-new-curriculum-working-group-final-report.pdf

Utt, J. and Tochluk, S. (2016). ‘White Teacher, Know Thyself.’ Urban Education, 55(1) doi:10.1177/0042085916648741.

Smith, L. (2020) ‘Top Ten Texts: A Survey of Commonly-taught KS3 Class Readers’, Teaching English, 23, pp.30-33.

Tanner, S.J., Miller, E.T. and Montgomery, S. (2018). We might play different parts: theatrical improvisation and anti-racist pedagogy. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 23(4), pp.523–538. doi:10.1080/13569783.2018.1494557.

Gallagher, K. and Rivière, D. (2007). When drama praxis rocks the boat: struggles of subjectivity, audience, and performance. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 12(3), pp.319–330. doi:10.1080/13569780701560412.

Carter, C. and Sallis, R. (2016). Dialogues of diversity: examining the role of educational drama techniques in affirming diversity and supporting inclusive educational practices in primary schools. NJ, 40(1), pp.78–88. doi:10.1080/14452294.2016.1239504.

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Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 17th March 2023

For today’s episode, we’re bringing you a panel discussion about equity and diversity in the classroom, which was originally broadcast live on YouTube as part of our PGCE programme. 

Our panel of experts, Dean Pymble from Show Racism the Red Card, Marc Lewis from Ysgol Gyfun Cymraeg Plasmawr, and Mark Williams from Cardiff Met, joined Tom and our colleague Lisa Fenn in the studio to answer questions from our student teachers. 

We hope you find the discussion interesting and useful!

Huge thanks to our panel and also to our colleagues from the MSc Sport Broadcast programmes here at Cardiff Met who helped us get on the air.

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Originally broadcast live from studio B2.15 at Cardiff Metropolitan University’s Cyncoed Campus on 19th January 2024. 

It's been a very long time since we did a live podcast recording - in fact it was just before Covid locked us all down and Tom's car became the podcast recording studio. And it's been almost exactly the same amount of time since the very first ResearchED Cymru conference was held at Cardiff High School. Now both of these things have made a triumphant return at the same time: we were delighted to be asked to present a live panel discussion for the podcast from the second ResearchED Cymru conference. Featuring Lucy Crehan and Gareth Rein - both podcast veterans - and new guest Sam Eaton, the theme of this episode is whether equity and coherence can be achieved in the new Curriculum for Wales, and what's needed to ensure it happens.

There are some frank views and strong opinions from the panel, as well as pertinent questions from the three audience members we managed to squeeze in right at the end. So if you didn't make it to ResearchED Cymru (or even if you did), have a listen to a flavour of what's going on at this grassroots teacher gathering.

You can find ResearchED Cymru at @cymru_ed on twitter, and many thanks to James Wise for the kind invitation, and to our panel and audience for taking part.

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Recorded at Cardiff High School on 4th March 2023

Today we welcome our colleague Dr. Anne Hodgson, an expert in autism and additional learning needs more widely. We discuss the new ALN act in Wales and the implications for pupils and teachers. As well as that, we consider how the new curriculum in Wales might have an impact on provision for pupils with additional learning needs, and what mainstream settings (and the teachers in them) need to do in order to support pupils to access their education in a mainstream environment.

Thanks to Anne for joining us! If you'd like to find out more about the education and social justice research group, you can drop her an email at ahodgson@cardiffmet.ac.uk!

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Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 15th February 2023

It's time for another look at doctoral research in progress, and Tom's hoping his won't be in progress for much longer! Recorded the day after submitting his viva corrections, this episode looks at Tom's PhD thesis, A Study of Key Stage 3 Music Teachers' Pedagogic Beliefs in the Context of a New Curriculum for Wales. The study aimed to create a model of the beliefs of classroom music teachers about what the subject is for, what they are trying to achieve and what goes on in their classrooms, all at a time of major education reform.

Emma gives Tom a gentle grilling about what makes classroom music problematic, his use of sociology to try and make sense of it, and what he took away from the project. You can download the visual model here.

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Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 6th February 2023.

Today we welcome Dr. Mary Woolley from Canterbury Christ Church University. Mary joins us down the line from Folkestone to discuss her role in a research project focusing on encounters between science and religion in the classroom. Having met Mary and her colleague Professor Bob Bowie at the UCET conference, we immediately saw the potential for their work to support curriculum reform in Wales. Today's discussion outlines the work of the project, what the team have found out, and what resources are available to support science and religion teachers in coming closer together. Plus we discuss the take-aways for teachers of other subjects looking to foster meaningful dialogue.

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Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 6th February 2023.

Today, we welcome Professor David Egan to our podcast studio for an extended discussion about poverty in education in Wales. David has had a long and distinguished career in education, starting as a history teacher in the Welsh valleys in 1976 and ending up as a professor, so he has plenty to tell us about the education landscape.

In this episode, David tells us about the causes and consequences of child poverty in Wales, how education reform might have an impact, and how we can do the very best we can for the least advantaged pupils in our schools.

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Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 9th January 2023

Happy new year! Friend of the podcast Sally Bethell is back once again, with an upgrade to Doctor Sally after successfully achieving her EdD professional doctorate a few months ago.

Having spoken to us several times in the past about her work on mentoring, Dr Sally is now in a position to outline how she's been working to support mentors in generating a self-reflection tool to help them reflect on the complexities of the role. If you'd like to get in touch with Sally with a view to making use of her research, drop her an email at sbethell@cardiffmet.ac.uk!

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Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 9th November 2022

Well, here we are again - in the gap between Christmas and New Year, and it's time for our annual tradition of giving each other six Christmas presents consisting of interesting things we've begged, borrowed and stolen.

This year, Emma's finally succumbed to Covid after a glorious three-year run of immunity, and is therefore forced to dial in down-the-line from home. Tom, meanwhile, is all alone in an apparently deserted university after teaching has finished on the last Friday of term. All in all, then, a not so festive start to an episode which will hopefully pull some Christmas cheer out of the bag,

Sit back and enjoy as Emma and Tom discuss unsung heroes of music, a classic Christmas film, the evils of PowerPoint, primary school parental admin, and some wholesome(ish) literature to while away the holiday period. Apologies, as ever, to Cameron for butchering his theme music with festive bells.

We hope you enjoy it, and we'll see you in 2023!

Best wishes from Emma and Tom

PS: last year we made a video of us recording our Christmas episode. This year, you can watch the sad spectacle of Tom recording all by himself in the studio.

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Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus, and remotely, on 16th December 2022

Today we welcome a friend of PGCE Research Bites to his first full podcast episode! Dr. James Snook heads up all things to do with research and professional learning here at the Cardiff Partnership, and is a strong advocate for classroom enquiry.

We sat down with James to ask him about the benefits of classroom enquiry, how to embed a culture of enquiry in school, the place of universities, and more.

Thanks to James for coming in, and we'll be back in a fortnight with something festive!

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Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 8th November 2022

This week, we're delighted to welcome a school colleague to our podcast studio. James Wise is the ITE coordinator at Cardiff High School, and also the organising force behind ResearchED Cymru. We wanted to chat to James about how he works with new teachers to help them create a culture of challenge for all pupils in their classrooms.

Thanks to James for taking part, and do check out the latest from ResearchED Cymru by checking out @Cymru_Ed on Twitter.

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Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 10th November 2022

Dyma damaid arall o ymchwil TAR i chi ac mae’r myfyriwr TAR Uwchradd Mathemateg, Tomos Woods, yn siarad gyda Dr Gina Morgan am ei waith ymchwil. Mae’n trafod ei ail Aseiniad, sef ymyrraeth sydd yn ffocysu ar sut mae Esboniadau Ychwanegol Gweledol yn Cynyddu Dealltwriaeth Gysyniadol Disgyblion mewn Gwersi Mathemateg. Mae’r ystyried effaith gadarnhaol y defnydd o luniau, diagramau, siapiau a lliw ar sgiliau Mathemateg a Rhifedd ei ddysgwyr. 

Yn y sgwrs hon mae Tom yn esbonio beth wnaeth e ddarganfod ac effaith hynny ar ei ymarfer proffesiynol.

Those of you who listened to our epic Christmas special in December will remember Tom reading out a stream of tweets from Dr Emily MacLeod, who had just completed her doctorate about teacher recruitment. Well, now we have Dr Emily in person, speaking to us down the line, to delve deeper into the fascinating study she undertook which seeks to understand what motivates (and demotivates) people to become teachers. 

Using a massive treasure trove of longitudinal data from the ASPIRES project at the Institute of Education, Emily takes us through some of the really interesting things she’s found out, and what the implications might be for the ever more difficult task of recruiting new members of our wonderful profession. 

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Recorded at Cardiff Metropolitan University’s Cyncoed Campus on 28th February 2024

Confession time: quite a long time ago we were asked to provide a recommendation of something interesting from the EBSCO database of education literature for the Education Workforce Council's Meddwl Mawr book and journal club. Teachers registered in Wales can access anything in EBSCO for free, helping to bring education literature goodies to classroom practitioners all over the country.

Finally, we've got our act together and have a discussion for you about initial teacher education reform in Wales in the form of an article by Professor John Furlong and co-authors. Despite the apparently niche subject area, there's plenty in here for anyone in the education world to chew over, so we hope you'll stick with us for the ride!

If you want to read the article, look for Furlong, J., Griffiths, J., Hannigan-Davies, C., Harris, A. and Jones, M. (2021) ‘The reform of initial teacher education in Wales: from vision to reality.’ Oxford Review of Education 47(1) pp. 61-78

You can find the Meddwl Mawr book and journal club at https://www.ewc.wales/site/index.php/en/professional-development/ewc-book-and-journal-club.html

Thanks to our friends at the EWC for the opportunity!

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Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 24th October 2022

Today's Research Bite features Daniel Gurner, a PGCE Secondary Music student teacher who designed and delivered an intervention in his placement school to help pupils improve their literacy when answering GCSE music exam questions.

In putting the intervention together, Daniel drew on various sources of literature as well as his understanding of the advantages of treating music as a holistic subject in which pupils develop their understanding of music through making it.

You can also watch this episode on the Cardiff Partnership's professional learning YouTube channel.

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Recorded in studio B0.17, Cyncoed Campus, Cardiff Metropolitan University on 21st June 2022

Hello from our latest podcasting home - just across campus from our old podcasting home! And as is traditional at this time of year, we've got a feast of random stuff for one another, drawn from all four corners of the internet and beyond.

If you'd like to see any of the items from this episode, check out the links below. We'll see you again soon!

News is bad for you - Rolf Dobelli in the Guardian

Tea - Hanan Issa

Admin Assistant II - Ed Burmila

BameEd Wales

After Rembrandt and Grubby Grub - Morten Morland

The Golden Mole and other living treasure - Katherine Rundell

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Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 24th October 2022

In this episode, Phoebe Rees (who has just graduated from our PGCE primary programme) speaks to Tom Breeze about an intervention she created to tackle her concerns about low academic self-esteem in her pupils. Before embarking on the PGCE, Phoebe did a degree in psychology, and she brought her knowledge of research-informed approaches to bear on the practical issues she wanted to address in her classroom.

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Recorded in studio B0.17 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 21st June 2022