Teaching Excellence podcast
by Stefanie TinsleyA podcast discussing all things Teaching, Learning, Assessment and Quality in Further Education. Hosted by Stef Wilkinson, specialist in Quality improvement, innovation and strategic approach.
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Episodes
S6 Ep 2: Initial Assessment - Establishing learner start points
30m · PublishedS6 Ep1: The first 6 weeks
33m · PublishedS5 ep5: Stuart Rimmer - FE: Where are we now?
38m · PublishedStuart is the first principal to come on the Teaching Excellence Podcast. With a keen interest in leadership, Stef chats with Stuart about his leadership journey in FE, the challenges that we currently face and the vision of FE in the future.
S5 Ep4: Making Induction Meaningful with Lindsey Wilson
36m · PublishedThis week Lindsey and I chat about Induction and the things that we think make it meaningful. Its a good time to consider how we best welcome students to college but also move away from induction being about assessment, assignments and course requirements. Its time to be creative and consider all the ways in which we can create a memorable experience that will build a sense of belonging and engage students in their future.
S5 Ep3: Isla and Stef - NATECLA, Apprenticeships and Ofsted
33m · PublishedThis week Stef and Isla chat about the last few weeks, what we have been up to, where we have been and what we have heard which has caught our interest. Isla talks about the NATECLA conference and I chat about training I ran with Apprenticeships tutors and we both talk about some of our initial thoughts about our Ofsted experiences this year. We could probably talk for a week about Ofsted, but we just threw out a few of our first initial thoughts. We get that usually it generates a lot of discussion, so if you want to ask us a question, use the voicenote or message function in Anchor to ask us something about our experiences or our thoughts. Much Joy. Stef and Isla.
S5 Ep2: Spirals of Enquiry with Co-Head Paula Ayliffe
39m · PublishedI talk to Paula who is a co-head of a primary school. She shares how this works and how they have aligned CPD and their whole school approach to being curious and inquisitive about improvement.
Season 5 Ep1: News and a little of 2022 so far
39m · PublishedIts time for Season 5 of the Teaching Excellence podcast. There is podcast news and we chat about things we have been up to recently in 2022, including a project which explores teaching low level English skills as well as exploring collaborative professionalism to create positive quality improvement cultures. If you find any of this interesting be sure to let us know or get in touch and we can point you in the direction of resources or further reading, or we could even include further discussion in future episodes.
S4 Ep 7: Ben Whitaker: Change, Technology and Term 1
36m · PublishedI chat to Ben about all things change, technology and how things seem to be going in Term 1.
Ben is an Educational Consultant working with a number of clients on both digital and cultural transformation. Prior to this, Ben has worked for 15 years in education as an Assistant Principal and Curriculum Manager, focusing on Apprenticeships and formerly in his subject specialisms of Religious Studies & Sociology. He is a governor at a primary school and a trustee of a local charity. For the last 4 years, he has hosted the Edufuturists podcast, interviewing guests from all over the world about loads of topics - cryptocurrencies, innovation, marketing - and applying this to the future of education.
He tweets at @itsbenwhitaker and can be found on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsbenwhitaker/
S4 Ep6: Culture Development through TLA with Amy Woodrow
35m · PublishedStef and Amy chat about Culture Development through TLA and Quality Improvement, the need for focus and rapid action in response to learner needs as well as the 'noise' that can exist when there feels like there is so much to do. We also chat briefly about Amy's research as part of last years SUNCETT research programme.
S4 Ep5: Coaching, Mentoring and Professional Development with Rachel Lofthouse
39m · PublishedStef and Rachel talk about Professional Development, Coaching and Mentoring in Education, with a specific focus on the Early Careers Framework and Contextual Coaching. We dig into the importance of relationships, nuance, challenge and the educational landscape in which we find ourselves as well as consider how practice can really be shaped to support and nurture teachers as professionals.
We talk about a recent research paper that Rachel has written and published with Trista Hollweck (@tristateach), titled Contextual Coaching: levering and leading school improvement through collaborative professionalism. The paper has many golden nuggets within it, of which we definitely do not get to cover everything within it in our conversation. The main focus is contextual coaching and collaborative professionalism, of which both have super powers in relation to quality improvement in schools and colleges. More to come on both of these in future podcasts.
If you would like a copy of the paper then you are more than welcome to contact Rachel on twitter @DrRLofthouse or by email on [email protected].
Teaching Excellence podcast has 53 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 31:18:03. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 25th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 21st, 2024 20:15.