Phew - after all that political content, it's time to relax for the Easter break with our traditional 'light' episode. By the magic of pre-recording, we welcome back Emma this week, and @thomasbreeze.bsky.social is off on one again...

We're available in video too! Most of our listeners enjoy the podcast in audio form. That makes sense - busy teachers tend to listen while doing something else! But don't forget that most of our episodes are also available in video on our channel: www.youtube.com/@talkteachingpod

Tune in this week for the next three episodes of our Senedd Elections Special series, in collaboration with @impactwales.bsky.social - Lib Dem, Plaid Cymru and Reform!

Our Senedd Elections Special series, in collaboration with the @impactwales.bsky.social podcast, continues today with the @welshlabour.bsky.social party, represented by Lynne Neagle. What do Labour have to offer the education profession if we vote for them in May? Tune in to find out!

The podcast is a Dr Gareth Evans-travaganza right now - not only is he our post-match pundit in the Senedd Elections specials, he also joins us for our regular Friday episode this week to look back over 25 years of devolved education in Wales! @garethdjevans.bsky.social

Next week we'll have interviews with the Conservatives, the Green party and Labour. Here on our podcast there's analysis after every interview with Tom and Dr Gareth Evans from the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David. Join us on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday for our first three episodes!

Join us & @impactwales.bsky.social next week for the start of our series of interviews with education representatives of the 6 main political parties contesting the Senedd elections in May. By the magic of alphabetical order, we start with the Conservative party's @natasghar.bsky.social on Monday.

TOMORROW: We're joined by Dr Mary Woolley from Canterbury Christ Church University to discuss our research into teachers' curriculum conversations in the Curriculum for Wales. Who are teachers talking to, when, and what about?

Tune in tomorrow for our episode about the National Plans for Music Education in Wales and England. Yesterday's clip focused on Wales, so here's a bit about England to whet your appetite! Full article here: doi.org/10.1080/1063...

THIS FRIDAY: an extended discussion with @ehmacgregor.bsky.social and Dr Viv John about the National Plans for Music in Wales and England. In Wales, we're not so pleased that the whole of 'music education' was conflated with 'learning to play an instrument'...

THIS FRIDAY on the podcast, we're looking at pupils whose education is in one language, while at home they speak another. Dr Mirain Rhys and Dr Katharine Young join us to talk about Welsh Medium education but the principles are similar for other languages!

In tomorrow's episode Suzy tells us about a study into what percentage of medical advice on TikTok is accurate. The answer (as the clickbait headlines love to say) may surprise you...

Pupil health and wellbeing is high on all of our agendas, and this week we speak to Drs Chris & Suzy Peach, 2 doctors who have built their own online platform to help schools and pupils. We asked Suzy what’s going on with pupil resilience. Are pupils these days just massive snowflakes? (Spoiler: no)

THIS FRIDAY: We hear from Nicola Lo Celso from Willows High School about their whole-school literacy policy, what they're trying to achieve and why. Tune in!

Merry Christmas to all our listeners! On Boxing Day you can tune in to our annual offering of interesting, odd and festive things, featuring Emma, Sian and Tom, plus AI, food, electric shocks, poetry and more...

THIS FRIDAY: We join Kerry Bevan for an episode all about languages. Why should we learn languages? What's unique about the subject? What are the opportunities and challenges of teaching languages? All this and plenty more if you tune in wherever you get your podcasts.

THIS FRIDAY: What can we as reflective practitioners learn from the world of sport? We welcome back Professor to find out!

We always like a 'first' on the podcast, and in yesterday's recording we name-checked our first podcast dog, coming to us down-the-line from Oxford!

Very enjoyable Thursday morning recording a podcast episode with Dr Viv John in the studio and Dr @ehmacgregor.bsky.social (+ Walnut the dog) in Oxford. Plenty of critique for the National Plans for Music Education of both England and Wales!

We hope you enjoyed last week's 'light'(ish) half term episode. If you haven't had a listen yet, here's a bonus bit of @thomasbreeze.bsky.social causing trouble...

THIS FRIDAY: It's half term here in Wales, so we indulge in one of our 'light'(ish) episodes, bringing some random things to the table to chew over. PLUS we soft-launch Emma's stunt-double, Sian Wickersham - tune in!

THIS WEEK: We take a look at the subject of Art with Daisy Wilson from Yr Athrofa, UWTSD, and then talk to just-qualified art teacher, Jack Siddall, who gives us the lowdown on some fantastic work he did on decolonising the art curriculum while he was on the PGCE. Tune in on Friday!

TOMORROW: a slightly belated reflection on Estyn's report on the quality of maths teaching, which landed too late last year to squeeze it into season 7. As always, some poky discussion, not least our colleague Cameron with this...!

Next Friday we'll bring you a discussion of Estyn's recent report into the variability of maths teaching here in Wales. As part of that, recently qualified maths teacher Laurence told us what had brought him into the teaching profession as a career-changer.

You can also be sure that we have an episode about to come out about the recent Estyn report on the teaching of maths in Wales. Delayed because it dropped after we’d got all our episodes for last season locked in, but now just about to be released. Watch this space!

How about we start celebrating higher education as a nation? How about we start shouting, loudly, of the social good of higher education? How about we talk of the nurses, the doctors, the teachers, the social workers, educated at universities? How about we celebrate the artists, the writers, 1/

Nice to see friend of the podcast Finola Wilson from impactwales.bsky.social making waves in the media again! For more on this, you can listen to our episode on reading standards in Wales from last year, as well as an extended interview with the mighty Finola herself! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

WE'RE BACK this coming Friday with season 8, and there's some top-quality episodes lined up. First of all, an update to our 'So you want to become a teacher' episode featuring our colleague Rhian Wyn Griffiths. All your myths busted, all your questions answered. Tune in!

No thank you, academia.edu - if anyone wants to know about this paper, lead author Judith Kneen, the real human version (accept no substitutes) and two co-authors (us) have already made a podcast for people to enjoy: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

We're off for the summer now, but if you haven't already listened, check out Richard West from Stanwell, here telling us why physics is DEFINITELY not a subject only for boys!

We hope you enjoy today's camera-free episode in which Emma reviews a book on teaching and learning Shakespeare (something for everyone in that, we hope, even if you don't teach drama or English!) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

We hope all our listeners have had a restful Christmas break so far... Tune in TOMORROW for our annual festive light episode, slightly cut down to size (after last year's ran a little bit long) but hopefully just as much fun!

TODAY: We welcome Professor Trevor Mutton from Oxford University to talk about teacher education, the teaching profession, and philosophies about how new teachers learn to teach. Nice Oxford comma in that last sentence, too... Tune in

THIS FRIDAY: tune in for Dr Louise Allen-Walker and Dan Williams telling us about how public service professionals use clinical supervision, and we wonder: why did we never get this as teachers?!