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 back to Jodie Cooper a coach and wellbeing educator who joins us this episode with a focus on motivation and willpower. Throughout the episode we unpack the science and connect with some explicit strategies you can put in place right now as you navigate heavily workloads, high expectations, and personal and professional growth.
Read MoreWelcome to this episode were we hear from 6 pre-service teachers about their experience of working together over 5 days for an online simulation professional experience. Say hello to Ashley Toth, Kayla Fioritti, Lauren Hevey, Manami Menich, Natasha Rahilly, and Nina Mossop who are primary and secondary education students at Swinburne University of Technology. In this episode we discuss the impact from planning curriculum together, working as a collaboration, and teaching in the online space. As a celebration of this time together, and as a contribution back to the sector, a series of tips have been generated on the themes of engagement, supporting inclusion, wellbeing, supporting culture and indigenous perspectives, collaboration, and possibilities. Enjoy these unique insights as these PSTs adapt and embrace the continual changes as a result of Covid.
Read MoreWelcome 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 MoreWelcome to this episode where we hear from Claire, Breanna and Chrystal who are secondary pre-service teachers who are getting ready to graduate. They join me to reveal their insights of undertaking a professional experience placement in the secondary context during a Covid remote and flexible learning directive. Head’s up, this episode is honest, raw and insightful with moments touching on disappointment, isolation and a sadness that has been 2020 for some of us.
Read MoreIn this podcast episode we welcome back Dr Janet Salmons who continues to help us understand what is possible with online learning, and remote and flexible delivery. We draw on some big questions as you think about your role as a teacher and how you translate your why to the classroom virtually and remotely and energy impacts others.
Read MoreIn this episode I talk with distance learning guru, Dr Janet Salmons from the USA who has spent sometime working with concepts relatable to us as we navigate teaching online during remote and flexible learning as a part of Covid-19 changes to education. We are introduced the the Community of Inquiry model as a way to think about online learning.
Read MoreWelcome to this episode where we dig deeper into the remote learning experience with Lisa Mandeltort, and teacher of Chemistry, Science and Digital Technologies plus Head of Science at Nossal High School in Berwick, Australia and Wendy Goff the Professional Experience Liaison Officer at Swinburne University of Technology. In this episode we have a three way conversation about Lisa’s experience as a teacher of science in the remote learning space with senior secondary students while also supporting a pre-service teacher's as a mentor.
Read MoreKelsey Chandler and Kathryn Pudney are final year Masters of Education (Primary) students from Swinburne University of Technology about the enter into their final ready to teach professional experience placement. In this episode they join me to share their tips, tricks and insights into how they navigated their previous remote and flexible placement. Their sharing offers great insights especially for those who have not experienced this way of working as yet.
In this episode Nadine Crane returns and we are focusing on the mentor teacher and our relationship with them as pre-service teachers. This is a great topic to explore as it can be one of the most critical relationships but also most stressful relationship during our studies. In this episode we talk about how to develop a relationship – some key dos and don’ts are discussed, while we also offer some insights into how you can develop a relationship that flourishes. We do touch on what happens’ when it does go wrong as we reflect on some of the commonly reported situations where a mentor teacher and pre-service teacher relationship goes slightly pear shaped. And thought this episode we pose great questions for you to consider no matter what stage you are at in your development as a teacher.
Read MoreWelcome to this episode where we talk play. My guest Jodie Cooper joins me as we have a few giggles, and investigate smiles, laughs and conscious choices to engage in positivity . Play in our personal life for teachers is critical, we often think about it in regard to curriculum, but in this podcast episode we want to extend our ideas of play and we ask the questions: why is play important for us in our personal life? What might it look like in practice? And why is it important for our wellbeing and self-care?
Read MoreWelcome to this episode where Associate Professor Marni Binder joins me. Marni is an educator and arts-based practitioner based in Toronto, Canada at Ryerson University. We get juicy in this episode and you’ll hear just how passionate we are about the arts and the place it has in education. Enjoy as we encourage you to explore the place of arts, creativity and imagination for you both personally and professionally.
Read MoreIn this episode I talk with Tina Hascher, a Professor of Education Science at the University of Bern in Switzerland. We talk about her latest research in wellbeing and why is it important for future teachers and teachers to care about wellbeing. Throughout the episode we raise the importance of caring about wellbeing coming from both sides - teachers and students.
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.
Read MoreIn this episode I speak with Dr Michelle Tichy who is a USA based educator, researcher and educational psychologist. Our discussion focuses on unpacking what emotional intelligence is, why it is relevant to us personally and professionally, and what is looks like in practice.
Read MoreAssessment and reporting are a key aspect to the role of a teacher. Writing school reports is a is an integral part of this but it is something that is often, well to be honest, discussed in a way that frames the task as negative, something extra that has to be done and is often completed at the last minute and on weekends. This rhetoric diminishes the importance of report writing and the purpose which is to celebrate and contribute to the growth of each learner. In this episode we welcome back Leesa Downes, a teacher and early childhood expert who talks about assessment and reporting from a learning community perspective. She focuses on the why and how of utilising a strengths-based approach to report writing.
Read MoreIn this episode I talk with Lisa Baker, an early childhood educator, coach and all time inspiring colleague who has a wealth of knowledge and experience in education and positive psychology. We focus on wellbeing literacy and unpack what this is, why it is important and what it can look like in the classroom. Lisa shares loads of top tips and strategies to help us explore this topic and connect with what is possible.
Read MoreWelcome to Series 2 Episode 2 where I talk with Alli Williamson co-founder of the Education Lab at Michelle McQuaid Pty Ltd. In this episode we unpack this data and talk about it in relation to finding space and the right people to be open with while expressing a level of vulnerability that can support the individual but all of us.
Read MoreWelcome to series 2, episode 1 of Teachers Supporting Teachers. In this episode Professor Caroline Mansfield joins me. I am so excited to introduce you to Caroline as she introduces us to her journey of being an educator. I was first introduced to Caroline a few years ago and have been a huge fan of her work and approach to teacher resilience ever since. In this episode we talk about the BRITE modules which stands for Building Resilience in Teacher Education. This project focuses on embedding resilience skills and strategies in teacher education programs and developing contextually responsive curriculum and resources.
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