Emma & Tom's Pgce Podcast

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, ax

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

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. -----------------------------------------------------------------Recorded live at the University of South Wales's Newport City campus on 6th July 20

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.-----------------------------------------------------Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Met

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/@cardiffpartnershipThanks to Hannah for joining us to share her research!Our Welsh-language strand, Tameidiau o Ymchwil TAR returns in a fortnight.---------------------------------------------------------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 member

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!------------------------------------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 ConsortiumCeri Prosser from St Teilo's Church in Wales High School in CardiffDr Kevin Smith from Cardiff UniversityRichard Jones from Welsh GovernmentEveryone 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

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 d

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%2

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--------------------------------------------------------------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/@cardiffpartnershipThanks 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 Usi

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.---------------------------------------------------------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 -----------------------------------------------Recorded 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. Secon

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: ConversationsThompson, I (2017) Tackling social disadvantage through teacher education. St Albans: Critical Publishing.Cushing, I. (2021), 'Langua

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/@cardiffpartnershipThanks to Cara for making her visual summary available, which you can download here.-------------------------------------------------------------------------Recorded in studio B2.16 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 17th March 2023

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