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Teachers Supporting Teachers Series 4 Episode 5: Transitions

Welcome to this episode where Dr Michelle Tichy joins me once again from Rollins College in USA. This episode we are talking transitions on a personal, local, global and professional level.

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Teachers Supporting Teachers SERIES 2 Episode 17 - 6 teachers, 1 purpose: Embarking on a pioneering journey of online simulated teaching

Welcome 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.

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Teachers supporting teachers: Series 2, Episode 7 - developing a community of support to approach wellbeing

In 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.

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Teachers supporting teachers: Series 2, Episode 4 - Report writing and strengths

Assessment 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.

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Teachers supporting teachers: Episode 12 with Wendy Goff

Say hello to Wendy Goff, an academic who has been supporting pre-service teachers and mentor teachers undertake professional experience in the remote and flexible mode during COVID-19. Wendy shares her insights into the experience and offers a wealth of tips about wellbeing, the place of relationships, and just how resilient and ambitious the profession has been during this dynamic time.

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Teachers supporting teachers: Episode 11 with returning guests Athanasia and Emma

We welcome back Thana and Emma to Teachers Supporting Teachers Podcast from Episode 8 who we now speak to at the end of week three of a four week block of professional experience during COVID-19 flexible and remote learning. We discuss insights into the reality of this time for the profession of education who have been required to be dynamic and flexible.

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