Teach Starter Podcast
Join us as we chat to inspirational, everyday teachers. It's real, it's uplifting, it's funny: it's for the love of teaching!
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Over-sharers in the Classroom: Mr D Needs Some Blurt Buttons.
He's a teacher. He's a comedian. He's officially one of Ellen Degeneres's "favourites". Joe (Mr D) Dombrowski is here to brighten up your week with his infectious laugh and hilarious stories. Brace yourself, because when i...
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Practical Tips for Classroom Teachers from a Special Ed Teacher
Teach Starter's Bronwyn Brady chats with Di Backhouse again this week. Di's an incredible teacher who specialises in the early childhood education of students with additional needs. Di's got lots of ideas and tips for mainstream classroo...
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The Kid Who Took the Words Right Out of Mr D's Mouth
He's a teacher. He's a comedian. He's officially one of Ellen Degeneres's "favourites". Joe (Mr D) Dombrowski is here to brighten up your week with his infectious laugh and hilarious stories. Brace yourself, because when i...
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RAOKs for your Colleagues
Need a little motivation on a Monday? Jill and Bron are experienced primary school teachers; they get it! Join them for inspiration and encouragement to get you buzzing through the school week!We hear a lot about the current buzz term 'Random A...
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Special Education
Teach Starter's Bronwyn Brady chats with Di Backhouse, an incredible teacher who specialises in the early childhood education of students with additional needs. We'll find out what inspired Di to pursue her amazing career and what she loves m...
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Mr D's Most Unorthodox Behaviour Management Strategy Yet!
He's a teacher. He's a comedian. He's officially one of Ellen Degeneres's "favourites". Joe (Mr D) Dombrowski is here to brighten up your week with his infectious laugh and hilarious stories. Brace yourself, because when i...
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Non-Daggy Teacher Affirmations
Need a little motivation on a Monday? Jill and Bron are experienced primary school teachers; they get it! Join them for inspiration and encouragement to get you buzzing through the school week!Affirmations don't have to be daggy or contrived! J...
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What Happens When Uni Ends?
Teach Starter's Bronwyn Brady chats with Emily, Miss Teacher to Be in this week's episode of For the Love of Teaching. Emily's going to delve into practical ways for preparing to teach, nailing the LANTITE test, and forming stro...
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Oh No She Didn't! Mr D on Going Head to Head with a Sassy Parent During an Interview
He's a teacher. He's a comedian. He's officially one of Ellen Degeneres's "favourites". Joe (Mr D) Dombrowski is here to brighten up your week with his infectious laugh and hilarious stories. Brace yourself, because when i...
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Teachers, Treat Yourselves!
Need a little motivation on a Monday? Jill and Bron are experienced primary school teachers; they get it! Join them for inspiration and encouragement to get you buzzing through the school week!Teachers: how often do we use our hard-earned cash to bu...
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Top Prac Hacks For Student Teachers
Teach Starter's Bronwyn Brady chats with Emily, a preservice teacher full to the brim with enthusiasm, creativity and passion for teaching. Now in her fourth year of her education degree, she presents a weekly series on Instagram live, as ...
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What this Kindy Kid Said Shocked Mr D to the Core!
He's a teacher. He's a comedian. He's officially one of Ellen Degeneres's "favourites". Joe (Mr D) Dombrowski is here to brighten up your week with his infectious laugh and hilarious stories. Brace yourself, because when i...
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Work it Wednesday!
Need a little motivation on a Monday? Jill and Bron are experienced primary school teachers; they get it! Join them for inspiration and encouragement to get you buzzing through the school week!We’re well into the school year now and teachers, you mi...
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Being a Happy, Healthy Teacher
If you haven’t heard, there is a growing community of educators online who are buzzing with creative ideas. They are happily sharing resources and supporting each other throughout the school year. Instagram can now be used to explore inside classrooms ...
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Being Multi-Age Rural Teacher
Teach Starter's Bronwyn Brady chats to Ceri Edwards, a teacher who absolutely loves her job. She is a beacon of light and happiness for her network of teachers that she is in touch with on Instagram.Ceri has discovered the keys to being success...
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Gabbie Stroud: How to Keep the Heart in Teaching
Teach Starter's Bronwyn Brady chats with inspirational teacher-turned-author, Gabbie Stroud, about all things teacher! The good bits, the not so good bits and how to overcome these parts of the teaching profession. Gabbie shares some of her all-ti...
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Bonus Episode: Trauma Informed Practice - FAQs
Recently we facilitated this webinar on trauma-informed practice. We had a huge response and during the Q&A we received more than 70 questions - far too many to cover in our 1- hour session!It was clear that the topic you were most interested in hearing about was behaviour management strategies. We heard you! As promised, we took those questions to our experts and we've recorded this podcast episode to answer some of them. [Behaviour Resources]"Sitting down and reasoning is quite often very challenging for kids who have experienced trauma, and you need the foundational aspects of your relationships with educators and with others and capacity to regulate as well before you get to that higher order functioning skill of being able to reason." - Dr Emily Berger.As you'll hear in the recording, research shows that students who have experienced trauma have diverse needs when it comes to emotional regulation. Our behaviour management collection contains resources, blogs, and podcasts to support your trauma informed practice. Catch up on the original Q&A webinar here.Professor Martin and Dr Berger's template for a school trauma-informed practice policy is available here.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Challenging the Notion of Learning Loss - with Ron Berger
Today we will be talking about the persisting narrative around "learning loss" - The idea that students have suffered a collective educational deficit due to the global pandemic. We're joined by Ron Berger, chief academic officer at EL Education, to look at how, as educators, we can challenge this negative dialogue and reframe how we view students - seeing them as capable, resilient learners whom we believe in.Read Ron's article "Our Kids Are Not Broken" in The Atlantic.Thanks for listening! Don't forget to:Subscribe to Teach Starter on your favorite podcast app, so you'll never miss an episode!Subscribe to Teach Starter on Youtube, for helpful videos for your classroom.Follow Teach Starter on Instagram for daily teaching inspiration.Visit TeachStarter.com to view all of our engaging and easy-to-use classroom resources.Did you know that you can listen to the Teach Starter podcast on Spotify?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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From Child Refugee to Thriving Primary Teacher - Vivian's Story
During the pandemic, as a profession, teachers have been concerned about our students' learning. We've been putting intervention strategies in place to prevent learning loss, whilst remediating knowledge gaps caused by periods of remote teaching and learning.Today I'm joined by Sydney teacher primary Vivian Roszkowski. As a teenager, Vivian was one of many students around the world who, even before the Covid19 pandemic, encountered enormous challenges to learning, and disruption to their education. Vivian, at age 14, became a refugee. The obstacles Vivian faced, and overcame, when trying to complete her own education, give her daily inspiration, empathy and connection to the children she's taught though the pandemic.You'll hear about how Vivian's family fled war-torn Iraq in 2003, made it to Syria, also in conflict, and undocumented refugees like Vivian and her family were not allowed to work or attend school. She'll take us through her family's desperate attempts in applying to many countries seeking asylum, and her journey to Australia, where she had no English, was eighteen years old and had to catch up on her schooling in order to make it into her teaching course at uni.Have you subscribed to Teach Starter? Don't forget! It means you'll be the first to know whenever a new episode is released.At Teach Starter, we don't only make this great podcast for teachers! We also make quality, downloadable teaching resources!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.