Emma & Tom's Pgce Podcast

We have so many goodies for you, and so little of the year left, that we're giving you some bonus Saturday releases: for the first time ever, we present BA Bites!As well as our well-known PGCE programmes, the Cardiff Partnership for ITE has an undergraduate BA Primary with QTS programme, and today we bring you our first ever guest from that programme. Lani Codd is a final year student who has carried out classroom-based research into the link between pupils' ability in literacy and their creative capacities.In this research bite, you can hear Lani talking to Emma about her work, and what she found out.You can check out Lani's infographic summarising her findings here, and a video version of this conversation is available at the Cardiff Partnership's professional learning YouTube channel.

Research Bites is back! Showcasing the very best student teacher research from the Cardiff Partnership for Initial Teacher Education, we're proud to present student teachers in conversation with their tutors about the work they've done, and the impact it's had on them and their classrooms.Today, Sonia Fajkis joins us to talk about engagement in blended learning in the language classroom. Sonia talks to her PGCE programme leader, Kerry Bevan, about her review of the literature and the recommendations she made to her school, as well as her next steps as a teacher and a researcher.Sonia has kindly made her summary infographic available for download, which you can find here. Thanks, Sonia!You can also find a video version of this conversation at the Cardiff Partnership's professional learning YouTube channel.Sonia's six main sources were:Chiu, T. K. F., (2021): Applying the self-determination theory (SDT) to explain student engagement in online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, Journal of Research on Technol

We're back with the second half of our double-bill discussing the outcomes of joint research carried out by Cardiff Metropolitan University and Cardiff University into the impact of Covid-19 on the education landscape. The research focused particularly on assessment, and looked at both pupils and student teachers. In this second episode we're rejoined by Professor Emmajane Milton from Cardiff University, and also welcome Dr Anna Bryant and Dr Viv John from Cardiff Met. We're discussing the reforms to initial teacher education in Wales, the model of research-informed clinical practice that was adopted in Cardiff, and what happened when Covid-19 hit less than a year into a brand-new (for us) way of educating teachers. We discuss the place of research-informed clinical practice in supporting new teachers to develop despite a rocky start to their careers, differing perceptions between school and university about the way that Covid-19 impacted teacher education, and look at how we move forward and continue d

It's the Easter break in schools - and who knows, we might even take a few days of annual leave ourselves!It's become a tradition at holiday times for us to break into our normal service with a chat about some interesting, weird and wonderful things we've found online, so here's our Easter offering for you.Tom's on best behaviour this time around and has promised not to drop some nightmarish bombshell on Emma to respond to, and all three of his contributions are actually linked to teaching. Meanwhile, Emma has some interesting stuff of her own to share. We hope you enjoy our free-form chat and find something interesting in there! Have a wonderful break, and we'll be back with the second half of our Covid Assessment Project research double-bill in a fortnight.Find our goodies online:1) BBC World Service: Deeply Human2) Political Thinking with Nick Robinson: Lord (Jonathan) Sumption3) The Guardian: 100 ways to slightly improve your life4) Twitter: Dan Wuori on teacher sacrifice5) New York Times: Wordle6) CNN: A

Today we're releasing the first in a double-bill of podcast episodes discussing joint research carried out by the Cardiff Partnership for Initial Teacher Education, and presented at events convened by the International Professional Development Association.We're joined by the newly-professored Emmajane Milton (congratulations to her!) and Dr. Alex Morgan from Cardiff University, who carried out research in a team with colleagues from Cardiff Met. The research, funded by Welsh Government, aimed to discover the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on both pupils and student teachers, with a particular emphasis on assessment.The findings were interesting and concerning for both groups, and what we present today is a no-holds-barred, in-depth discussion about the state of education today as we continue to face challenges from Covid-19, and as we look to reform education in Wales.At the time we release this episode, the report itself had not been publicly released, but on 23rd March we received news that it is now publi

Long-time podcast listeners may remember our review of Lucy Crehan's bestseller Cleverlands, in which the author outlined her insights into leading education systems of the world. Crucially, Lucy had actually got on a plan and travelled to the countries, living with teachers and speaking to people involved in education, and so her conclusions about the features of high-performing education systems of the world had more weight behind them. It also helped that her final chapter was crystal clear in summarising what she saw as the common features of world-leading education systems.So you can imagine how excited we were to be able to pack up our wires and microphones and hit the road - not only were we taking the podcast for the first time since Covid hit in 2020, but we had an invitation to Lucy Crehan's house for a long chat about her work supporting teachers in implementing the new curriculum for Wales!Our discussion turned out to be an honest and serious evaluation of how things are going in what should be th

It's been quite a while since we discussed the all-important role of the mentor in initial teacher education, and we welcome two guests today: Sally Bethell, veteran of several podcast recordings, and Sian Wickersham, one of our newest colleagues. Sally has spent years becoming our go-to colleagues about all things to do with mentoring, and is in the closing stages of doctoral research on the subject. Meanwhile, Sian has just joined us from a role at an academy chain in London, and her perspective as a new member of the team (and one with experience of initial teacher education over the border in England) adds a new angle.There have been some major changes in the way we work in partnership with our schools to educate new members of the teaching profession in the last few years. How has this manifested itself in the role of the mentor, the person who the student teacher probably sees more than anyone else on the programme? How have our colleagues who train and support mentors changed how they work to take acco

Mae wedi bod ychydig yn amser ers i ni glywed ddiwethaf gan ein hathrawon dan hyfforddiant, a heddiw gallwch chi glywed gan sawl un ohonyn nhw! Mae'r cysyniad o ymchwil ac ymholi yn ganolog i fodel ymarfer clinigol addysg gychwynnol ymchwil Caerdydd Met, ac mae'n bleser clywed athrawon dan hyfforddiant yn amlinellu eu gweithgareddau ymchwil ac ymholi cynnar o'u lleoliadau ysgol cyntaf mor groyw.Fe wnaethom sefydlu ein prosiect 'bwth lluniau ymchwil ac ymholi' lle anfonodd ein hathrawon dan hyfforddiant fideos 'hunlun' 2-3 munud yn dweud wrthym beth yr oeddent wedi'i dynnu oddi wrth ddarn o ymchwil ac ymholiad. Mae Sioned a Rhian yn cyflwyno rhai ohonynt yn y bennod hon, ac yn trafod y lle ymchwil ac ymholi mewn addysg gychwynnol athrawon.-------------------------------Recordiwyd ar Gampws Cyncoed Prifysgol Fetropolitan Caerdydd ar 14eg Rhagfyr 2021

It's been a little while since we last heard from our student teachers, and today you can hear from several of them! The concept of research and enquiry is central to Cardiff Met's research-informed clinical practice model of initial teacher education, and it's a joy to hear student teachers outlining their early research and enquiry activities from their first school placements so articulately.We set up our 'research and enquiry photo booth' project in which our student teachers sent 2-3 minute 'selfie' videos telling us what they'd taken away from a piece of research and enquiry. Emma and Tom introduce some of them in this episode, and discuss the place of research and enquiry in initial teacher education.For our Welsh-speaking listeners, there's a bonus this week as we're simultaneously releasing a Welsh version of this episode. Check out our feed for the other episode 13, in which our Emma and Tom's colleagues Sioned Dafydd and Rhian Crooks-Williams take their places to discuss the 'photo booth' submissio

Dr. Viv John, recently awarded her doctorate after completing the Cardiff Met EdD programme with flying colours, has been in our sights for a while! After hearing the rave reviews of her viva, we had to get her in front of a microphone to find out what she's been researching.And the answer is that Dr. Viv has been bravely tackling several of the trickier areas relating to music education, taking on so many challenges that even her supervisors wondered if it was wise!In a nutshell, Viv was interested in trying to nail down the tricky concept of creativity as it applies to musicians who embark on the PGCE in secondary music with the aim of becoming classroom music teachers. We've heard many times on the podcast from Tom about the fact that people entering the profession as secondary music teachers skew strongly towards what we call 'classically trained', and Viv was interested in the implications of that for how these musicians see their own creativity and how it changes as they beome teachers. As well as the P

For the first time in a very long time, we're off on the road to an actual real-life school! Pencoedtre High School in Barry is the venue for an interesting discussion about what we mean by trauma-informed schools and how trauma-informed practice can help support pupils in overcoming difficulties that can affect their experience in school.Steph Robinson and Liz John join us in a school in the midst of being rebuilt to talk about what this looks like in practice, and how a little thought can go a long way in ensuring pupils have an emotionally available adult to call upon when they're in school.-------------------------------------------Recorded at Pencoedtre High School, Barry on 7th December 2021

So you want to become a teacher? Hopefully we can help!Our original episode of this name three years ago has been our number 1 most downloaded episode, so there must be quite a few of you out there interested in joining us in the best job in the world! But three years is a long time, and we thought it was time to produce a sequel and put it out there. We're joined by Sioned Dafydd, primary education specialist and one of the Welsh-language voices of the podcast, to chew over what you need to know and how to prepare to become a teacher. There's plenty of advice about the importance of knowing what you're signing up for, some ideas about the different pathways, and loads of common questions answered. We hope you find it useful!If you fancy coming and training with us, you can find out more about our programmes at www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/cardiff-partnershipWherever you decide to become a teacher, good luck!You can also watch this episode on YouTube here.-----------------------------------Recorded at Cardiff Metropo

It's Christmas Eve! We're here to supply our traditional festive ramble through a variety of random things we've gathered together for your enjoyment and diversion as you recover from a long, long autumn term. As usual, it's a mixture of the heavy and the insubstantial, the academic and the completely left-field. Hopefully there's something in the present pile for everyone, whether you're looking for something to think about or just some entertainment. After exhausting the selection of articles, podcasts and party games, our final offering is Emma's idea to shamelessly pinch the central concept from a popular podcast on the Guardian, which sees our intrepid duo sharing their favourite comfort food snacks and explaining the story behind them. If that leaves you hungry (!) for more, we hope you'll enjoy all the goodies we have lined up for you in 2022. That's it from us for 2021, and we hope you've enjoyed our episodes this year. Have a wonderful Christmas and new year, and we'll see you again in January!Best w

For this final episode before our traditional Christmas Special, we welcome Richard West, numeracy coordinator at Stanwell School in Penarth. Richard is a physics specialist but has taken on this important role in his school, supporting his colleagues to find opportunities within their subject specialisms to draw out numeracy skills.Richard discusses how to address numeracy meaningfully, how to address the fear factor amongst staff, and gives us plenty of practical strategies for addressing this cross-curricular theme within the curriculum for Wales.---------------------Recorded at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 29th November 2021

It's never been more important to have a clear vision and justification for your own subject and where it fits into the curriculum, whether you're in Wales or further afield.In this episode, Emma and Tom go back to basics to model the kind of material that can help you start thinking and talking about where you stand on the big questions about your subject. It goes without saying that this model uses the specific contexts of secondary music and drama that Emma and Tom know and love, so if you're not from that world you'll need to apply this to your own particular situation. Even so, we hope the conversation in here is a starting point for anyone who needs to work out where they stand in relation to the educational things they hold dear!If you want to find the texts discussed in this episode, here they are:Robinson, M. (2021) 'Drama' in What should schools teach? London: UCL PressPhilpott, C. (2012) 'The Justification for Music in the Curriculum' in Debates in Music Teaching. Abingdon: Routledge---------------

We're delighted to welcome Dr. Julia Jenkins back to the podcast after far too long away! Previously a member of our PGCE secondary science team, Julia was working for Teach First Cymru last time we caught up, but is now on the staff of the Institute of Physics. Julia has plenty of hard-hitting facts and figures for us on a worrying situation for diversity in the physics teaching world, with serious knock-on effects for teacher recruitment, A-level numbers and the subject of physics itself.Julia and her colleagues at the IoP have plenty fo support available for physics teachers, and also the significant number of non-specialists who are teaching the subject. Check out their Limit Less pages at iop.org/strategy/limit-less or drop Julia an email at julia.jenkins@iop.org--------------------Recorded at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed campus on 21st October 2021

For the final PGCE Research Bites of this block, we welcome Ben Pepler, who's here to discuss with Tom his research into how we can get more consistent results in the different components of GCSE music through an integrated approach. We hope you've found this set of Research Bites interesting, and maybe it's inspired you to carry out your own classroom research or enquiry! You can watch this episode on YouTube - https://smarturl.it/cardiffpartnership     Bibliography Badeley, A., (2006). Working Memory: An Overview. In: S. Pickering, ed., Working Memory and Education. Elsevier Inc. Dammann, G. (2008) ‘GCSE music: As for pupils who cannot read a note’, The Guardian Limited, 9 August, D’amore, A. (2006) Musical Futures: An approach to teaching and learning. London: Paul Hamlyn Foundation Evans, J. and Philpott, C. (eds.) A Practical Guide to Teaching Music in the Secondary School. London: Routledge Publishing Group Green, L. (2008) Music, Informal Learning and the School: A New Classroom Pedagogy. London: As

It's time for our traditional October light episode, where we scour the weirdest corners of the Internet to find some interesting things to share. As usual, we have no idea what the other is bringing to the mic, and the result is an episode that takes in statistics, impostor syndrome, social media and wellbeing cheese (you'll have to listen to find out what that's all about). Our episode rounds off with a rant from Tom and a feelgood tweet from Emma that leaves Tom muttering into the mic as the credits roll. Enjoy and we'll see you soon for the long run-up to Christmas!Our goodies from this episode:What Data Can't Do - The New YorkerWellbeing Cheese - Tom SherringtonIntimidating Personality - Laura Pickering-PayneSix hours without Facebook - The RegisterLoyal, loving friends - Hallie Rubenhold--------------------Recorded at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 14th October 2021

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 Davies yn trafod sut yr aeth ati i ddysgu mwy am hyrwyddo llafaredd mewn dosbarth cynradd, drwy ymchwil ac ymholi. 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 - https://smarturl.it/cardiffpartnership       Cyfeirnodau Alexander, R. (2004) Towards Dialogic Teaching ‘Rethinking Classroom Talk’. Dialogos UK Ltd. Alexander, R. (2013) Improving Oracy and Classroom Talk: Achievements and Challenges. Primary First (tt. 22-29) An Evaluation of the Plymouth Oracy Project. Plymouth Teaching School Alliance. [ar-lein: Gwelwyd: 03.04.2021] Barnes, D. a Todd, F. (1977) Communication and Learning in Small Groups. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd Barnes, D. a Todd, F. (1995) Communication and Learning Revi

Not being podcasters who like to put all the work onto our lovely guests, occasionally we front up and present some goodies of our own! And Emma's back with some more interesting things she's dug up as part of her doctoral research. Returning to the hot topic of reflection, Emma presents a new reflective model that she found, and we discuss some of the important considerations when trying to improve our own reflective practice. If you're new to the subject of reflection in teaching, you might like to get up to speed by listening to last season's episode with Professor Brendan Cropley! References Duffy, P. (2015) ‘Introduction’, in Duffy, P. (ed.) A Reflective Practitioner’s Guide to (Mis)Adventures in Drama Education – or – What Was I Thinking? Bristol: Intellect, pp.1-10. Smyth, J. (1989) ‘Developing and Sustaining Critical Reflection in Teacher Education’, Journal of Teacher Education, 40:2, pp.7-19. Smyth, J. (1993) ‘Reflective Practice in Teacher Education’, Australian Journal of Teach