Welcome to 'Teachers supporting teachers'. The podcast sharing insights into being and becoming a teacher. I’m your host Narelle Lemon, a Professor of Education in Australia. I’m curious and love to use this strength to find out more, so what better way to support others than to create this podcast series to be able to gain insights and perspectives from colleagues and friends. Make a cup of tea and find a comfy place to sit as you listen to various guests talk about being and becoming a teacher.
We are curious about a number of topics. Each series does something a little different. Enjoy the exploration.
Welcome to this episode where Siobhan O’Brien joins this series and unpacks for us how literacy can be an avenue to discuss our wellbeing. We talk about literacy in this episode in relation to working with young children, with parents, and in the classroom. One of the highlights of this episode is a discussion about the place of literacy & reading in the home.
Read MoreNadine Crane joins me in this episode of Teachers Supporting Teachers. Nadine is an educator and teacher educator at The University of Melbourne with a background in inquiry learning. She’s currently undertaking her PhD to investigate further the notion of “curriculuming”, specifically looking at how teachers and students co-curate curriculum. In this episode we discuss what inquiry learning is, why we need to know about it and what this looks like in practice. We myth bust and provide critical links to what you need to know to foster learning this way.
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