Beyond Survival: The New Teacher Podcast

The guest on this week's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast'  is Shannon Docherty. Shannon completed her PGDE (post graduate diploma in education) last year. This is the teacher-training year in Scotland. In this interview she shares some brilliant tips on how you can thrive and succeed in this challenging year learning to be a teacher. She answers the following qu...

This episode is this week's 'Teacher Talk': a fifteen minute talk that explores an important aspect of classroom practice, with practical strategies for implementing it in your classroom. This talk explores the importance of names for young people, and how we can aim to create a classroom that is 'name rich' and building positive relationships. It also gives some practical...

The guest on this week's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast'  is Sam Strickland.  Sam is a headteacher, behavioural specialist and author of a range of brilliant books on education.  His latest book is the excellent 'They Don't Behave for Me: Fifty classroom scenarios to support teachers'. You can follow Sam on Twitter @strickomaster. In this intervi...

This episode is the first of the new monthly education book of the month series. Each month I pick one education book that I feel listeners would really benefit from, and give some takeaways for listeners to implement.  In this fifteen minute talk, I give some key takeaways from Sam Strickland's excellent ‘They Don’t Behave for Me’ 50 classroom behaviour scenarios to support secondary phase t...

The guest on this week's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast'  is Doug Lemov.  Doug is an American educator and author. He is currently Managing Director of Uncommon Schools, a non-profit charter management organisation that manages 42 charter schools across New York, New Jersey and Boston. He is the author of a range of books, including 'Teach like a Champion&...

Welcome to season two of 'Beyond Survival: The New Teacher Podcast!'  This episode is this week's 'Teacher Talk': a fifteen minute talk that explores an important aspect of classroom practice, with practical strategies for implementing it in your classroom. This talk explores how we can make a really positive first impression with a new class. It explores how we can prepar...

This episode is this week's 'Teacher Talk': a fifteen minute talk that explores an important aspect of classroom practice, with practical strategies for implementing it in your classroom. In this final episode of season one, I explore some of the key themes and messages from the 48 episodes that have made up season one. I break that down into three key themes about teachings, and th...

The guest on the final interview episode of the first series of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast'  is Sarah Philip. Sarah is a psychologist, coach and host of the Curious Conversations podcast. She also does a huge amount of work supporting schools and teachers.  In this interview Sarah answers the central question: How can new teachers find balance in their work? In answering t...

Today's episode of 'Beyond Survival: The New Teacher podcast' is the monthly masterclass with Colin McGill. Colin is my colleague in the PGDE at Edinburgh Napier University, and is the programme leader.  This episode is a masterclass in explanations.  Colin answers the following questions: 1. In your work with new teachers, what mistakes are often made when delivering explanations? ...

This episode is this week's 'Teacher Talk': a fifteen minute talk that explores an important aspect of classroom practice, with practical strategies for implementing it in your classroom. Today I am using this episode to talk about an online behaviour management training fundraising event I am running. This month a group of staff and students from Edinburgh Napier University are run...

I am away next week, so today is a bonus interview episode. The guest on today's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast'  is Dr Emma Kell. Emma is the founder and director of Those Who Can. She is a teacher, coach and wellbeing expert. She is also the author of a range of excellent education books, including 'How to Survive in Teaching.'    In this interview,...

The guest on this week's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast'  is Peter Foster.  Peter leads secondary teacher development across a large multi-academy trust. He is also the author of a superb new book called 'What do new teachers need to know?', which is out on Wednesday 19th of April. In this interview, Peter answers the central question: What do new tea...

This episode is this week's 'Teacher Talk': a fifteen minute talk that explores an important aspect of classroom practice, with practical strategies for implementing it in your classroom. This talk is a departure for the usual format. In it, I share a piece of writing from a former student of mine. It is anonymous and shared with permission, and is entitled: 'My experience of s...

The guest on this week's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast'  is Karen Watson. Karen Watson is an Additional Support Needs (ASN) educator, inclusion champion and teacher. She is also the author of the excellent book 'Good Autism Practice for Teachers'. In this interview, Karen answers the central question: how can teachers best support autistic students?...

The guest on this week's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast'  is Bruce Robertson.  Bruce is a headteacher, consultant and author of the excellent 'Teaching Delusion' trilogy. His new book 'Power up your Pedagogy,' is a brilliant visual guide to how to develop your teaching. In this interview, Bruce answers the central question: how can new teach...

This episode is this week's 'Teacher Talk': a fifteen minute talk that explores an important aspect of classroom practice, with practical strategies for implementing it in your classroom. This talk explores what we can do to improve the quality of explanations in our classrooms. It explores why delivering powerful explanations is such a nuanced skill, before going on to look at thre...

The guest on this week's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast'  is  Dr Heather Earnshaw.  Heather is my wonderful colleague at Edinburgh Napier University, where she leads the Physics PGDE. She also has a huge amount of experience in working with schools and organisations in tacking inequalities, and lead Education Scotland's Improving Gender Balance and Equalit...

This episode is this week's 'Teacher Talk': a fifteen minute talk that explores an important aspect of classroom practice, with practical strategies for implementing it in your classroom. This talk explores what we can do to improve the quality of listening in classrooms. It explores why it is important that we focus on listening skills, before looking at ways in which we can develo...

Today's episode of 'Beyond Survival: The New Teacher podcast' is a new monthly themed episode with Colin McGill. Colin is my colleague in the PGDE at Edinburgh Napier University, and is the programme leader.  Each month Colin will be answering listeners' questions on a particular theme. This episode focusses on behaviour.  Colin answers the following questions: 1.  What was the...

This episode is this week's 'Teacher Talk': a fifteen minute talk that explores an important aspect of classroom practice, with practical strategies for implementing it in your classroom.  This talk explores resilience and how we can train ourselves to develop a resilient mindset. After exploring what resilience is, and how it manifests in teachers, the talk goes on to explore four...

This week I have started studying for a diploma in coaching to qualify as an International Coach Federation registered professional coach.  I'm looking for individuals who might be interested in doing some coaching with me, all for free. This will be hopefully supportive and useful for the potential coach, and help me to develop my coaching skills. This brief ten minute episode gives an overv...

The guest on this week's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast'  is  Dr Lucy Kelly.  Lucy is an Associate Professor of Education at Bristol University and runs their English PGDE. She is also the author of a wonderful new book 'Reimagining the Diary: Reflective practice as a positive tool for educator wellbeing'. You can follow Lucy on Twitter at @drlucykell...

This episode is this week's 'Teacher Talk': a fifteen minute talk that explores an important aspect of classroom practice, with practical strategies for implementing it in your classroom.  This talk explores effective revision strategies that you can share with your students as we approach examinations. The first part of the talk looks at some of the revision traps that young people...

The guest on this week's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast'  is  Andrew Taylor.  Andrew worked in schools for 16 years as a class teacher and senior leader. He  now works for the University of Worcester, supporting trainee teachers and helping to improve the provision for ECTs.  You can follow Andrew’s popular ECT Twitter account @MrTs_NQTs for advice, support and...

This episode is this week's 'Teacher Talk': a fifteen minute talk that explores an important aspect of classroom practice, with practical strategies for implementing it in your classroom.  This talk explores how to manage behaviour at the start of a lesson. It gives some advice on what you can do before the lesson starts in order to secure the conditions for positive behaviour, foll...