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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'No Calling Out!' (Classic Mr D)
Blurting, calling out, whatever else you call it, it's a constant obstacle for teachers. Mr D shares a funny story about a student of his who could really use some Blurt Buttons!Do you love For the Love of Teaching? Don't forget to subscribe on your fave podcast app to get all the latest updates and newest episodes!For the Love of Teaching is a podcast by Teach Starter. We save teachers hours each week by providing quality, downloadable teaching resources for their classrooms. To make your classroom buzz, visit Teach Starter.We also have a student-facing podcast with curriculum-aligned audio resources for kids! Check out Love Learning wherever you get your podcasts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Fast Finishers (ReBuzz)
Some kids are so fast! They'll get everything done in record speed (and with accuracy and neatness to boot!). Have you got one of these? Perhaps more than one! Join us as we give some suggestions for relevant fast finisher activities which will extend and enrich your students.Do you love For the Love of Teaching? Don't forget to subscribe on your fave podcast app to get all the latest updates and newest episodes!For the Love of Teaching is a podcast by Teach Starter. We save teachers hours each week by providing quality, downloadable teaching resources for their classrooms. To make your classroom buzz, visit Teach Starter.We also have a student-facing podcast with curriculum-aligned audio resources for kids! Check out Love Learning wherever you get your podcasts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Teaching Body Safety, Consent and Boundaries with Author Jayneen Sanders
Teaching kids about body safety, consent and boundaries can be challenging. Author and teacher Jayneen Sanders joins the podcast to talk about how her books and resources can help teachers protect students from abuse, through early education about body safety.
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Mr D on The Class of 2020
Another year is rolling to a close. But it's a year like no other. In this episode, Mr D and I reflect on our past students over the years, and chat about the amazing young people who are finishing their schooling journey as well as managing the challenges of the global pandemic. Do you love For the Love of Teaching? Don't forget to subscribe on your fave podcast app to get all the latest updates and newest episodes!For the Love of Teaching is a podcast by Teach Starter. We save teachers hours each week by providing quality, downloadable teaching resources for their classrooms. To make your classroom buzz, visit Teach Starter.We also have a student-facing podcast with curriculum-aligned audio resources for kids! Check out Love Learning wherever you get your podcasts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Book Week 2020 - Curious Creatures, Wild Minds
Book Week 2020 (like many things in 2020) is looking different from previous years. The highly anticipated parade with special guests (parents) may not be possible. But, there are still many activities and learning opportunities for Book Week 2020!Some schools have already celebrated, but many are eagerly awaiting the new dates for Book Week, the 17-23 October. And, if you are one of those that are searching for Book Week 2020 ideas, like always, we have created some super cute resources that go perfectly with the theme for book week...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Student Mental Health and Wellbeing with Smiling Mind
Student mental health and wellbeing is a huge consideration for teachers in 2020. Smiling Mind currently delivers critical mindfulness training to educators across the country through its award-winning School Program, where teachers are empowered to be champions for fostering positive mental health among their students.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Mr D's Unconventional Use of Non Contact Time
We're back! Kicking off term four, Mr D and I thought we'd chat about that golden 30 minutes to hour teachers are bestowed a couple of times per week: their Non-Contact Time. How do you most effectively use your planning period or NCT? Mr D was unsurprisingly a bit loose when it came to how he spent his planning time as a teacher. Do you love For the Love of Teaching? Don't forget to subscribe on your fave podcast app to get all the latest updates and newest episodes!For the Love of Teaching is a podcast by Teach Starter. We save teachers hours each week by providing quality, downloadable teaching resources for their classrooms. To make your classroom buzz, visit Teach Starter.We also have a student-facing podcast with curriculum-aligned audio resources for kids! Check out Love Learning wherever you get your podcasts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Beating the Back to School Blues (ReBuzz)
Are you reluctant to head back for term four, or are you raring to go? In this episode we talk through those back-after-the-holidays feels. Do you love For the Love of Teaching? Don't forget to subscribe on your fave podcast app to get all the latest updates and newest episodes!For the Love of Teaching is a podcast by Teach Starter. We save teachers hours each week by providing quality, downloadable teaching resources for their classrooms. To make your classroom buzz, visit Teach Starter.We also have a student-facing podcast with curriculum-aligned audio resources for kids! Check out Love Learning wherever you get your podcasts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Teaching Truths (FTLOT Selects)
We revisit one of most popular episodes with the amazing educator and author Danny Steele.Danny has more than 26 years of experience in the public school system in Alabama in the United States. Spending his time as a teacher, coach, administrator and career mentor to other administrators, Danny has developed a strong sense of what it means to be an effective educator who can really connect with students.His book, Essential Truths For Teachers, co-written with Todd Whitaker, takes teachers through some of the fundamental and necessary principles at the core of teaching, which they say have the biggest impact on student achievement.Follow Danny on Twitter for your daily dose of teacher inspiration, or take a look at his books, Essential Truths for Teachers and Essential Truths for Principals.For the Love of Teaching is a podcast by Teach Starter. We make quality, downloadable teaching resources that save teachers hours of time and make their classrooms buzz!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Mr D on Dating as a Teacher (Classic Mr D)
All the single, teachers; all the single teachers....This episode is for you! Mr D delves into the realities of trying to maintain a personal life whilst being an overworked educator. Do you love For the Love of Teaching? Don't forget to subscribe on your fave podcast app to get all the latest updates and newest episodes!For the Love of Teaching is a podcast by Teach Starter. We save teachers hours each week by providing quality, downloadable teaching resources for their classrooms. To make your classroom buzz, visit Teach Starter.We also have a student-facing podcast with curriculum-aligned audio resources for kids! Check out Love Learning wherever you get your podcasts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Favourite Rude Reads for Kids (ReBuzz)
There are some books that just have that certain appeal to them, that kids love. Some children's authors and illustrators have a particular talent for creating rude and hilarious books that kids love, and adults cringe at. Do you love For the Love of Teaching? Don't forget to subscribe on your fave podcast app to get all the latest updates and newest episodes!For the Love of Teaching is a podcast by Teach Starter. We save teachers hours each week by providing quality, downloadable teaching resources for their classrooms. To make your classroom buzz, visit Teach Starter.We also have a student-facing podcast with curriculum-aligned audio resources for kids! Check out Love Learning wherever you get your podcasts!See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.
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Sprinkle Magic Wherever You Teach (FTLOT Selects)
We revisit one of our most listened-to episodes when Dr Samantha Fecich joined me to talk about the eight ways she empowers student teachers to become what she calls "educators of excellence".Sam is a primary/elementary/additional needs teacher, a college professor and the author of Edumagic, a Guide for Preservice Teachers.Do you love For the Love of Teaching? Don't forget to subscribe on your fave podcast app to get all the latest updates and newest episodes!For the Love of Teaching is a podcast by Teach Starter. We save teachers hours each week by providing quality, downloadable teaching resources for their classrooms. To make your classroom buzz, visit Teach Starter.We also have a student-facing podcast with curriculum-aligned audio resources for kids! Check out Love Learning wherever you get your podcasts!See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.
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Mr D Zoom Teaching Fails
Many of us have a love-hate relationship with remote teaching through Zoom (or Meets), after enduring and powering through 2020! In this episode, we chat about some of the ways Zoom can, and will fail us. Do you love For the Love of Teaching? Don't forget to subscribe on your fave podcast app to get all the latest updates and newest episodes!For the Love of Teaching is a podcast by Teach Starter. We save teachers hours each week by providing quality, downloadable teaching resources for their classrooms. To make your classroom buzz, visit Teach Starter.We also have a student-facing podcast with curriculum-aligned audio resources for kids! Check out Love Learning wherever you get your podcasts!See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.
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Classroom Plants and Pets
Are you a classroom pets person? Perhaps you're more passionate about plants? In this episode we chat all about living things in the classroom.Do you love For the Love of Teaching? Don't forget to subscribe on your fave podcast app to get all the latest updates and newest episodes!For the Love of Teaching is a podcast by Teach Starter. We save teachers hours each week by providing quality, downloadable teaching resources for their classrooms. To make your classroom buzz, visit Teach Starter.We also have a student-facing podcast with curriculum-aligned audio resources for kids! Check out Love Learning wherever you get your podcasts!See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.
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Parent-Teacher Interview Moments (Classic Mr D)
We've just finished another round of parent-teacher interviews! Let's give ourselves a gold star, kick back with a cuppa, and listen to Mr D share one of his more memorable interviews. Do you love For the Love of Teaching? Don't forget to subscribe on your fave podcast app to get all the latest updates and newest episodes!For the Love of Teaching is a podcast by Teach Starter. We save teachers hours each week by providing quality, downloadable teaching resources for their classrooms. To make your classroom buzz, visit Teach Starter.We also have a student-facing podcast with curriculum-aligned audio resources for kids! Check out Love Learning wherever you get your podcasts!See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.
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Rebuzz Sustainability Chat
This sustainability chat is one of our most loved (and listened to) Buzz episodes ever! Join Jill and Bron as they chat about ways to reduce our impact on the earth, and preserve our precious natural resources. Join us in our new For the Love of Teaching Facebook group, where we chat about the podcast, feature live vids of guests, and talk teaching!Have you subscribed to For the Love of Teaching? Don't forget! It means you'll be the first to know whenever a new episode is released. For the Love of Teaching is a podcast by Teach Starter. We make quality, downloadable teaching resources that save teachers hours of time and make their classrooms buzz!See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.
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How to be Happy in a Pandemic (Live Recording)
... and why it's totally okay if you're not. In this recording, Bron will chatted with special guest Sarah from @teacherishappy about how to be happy in a pandemic (and why it's okay that you're not).Sarah is known for her positive outlook and bubbly attitude toward everything she does in life. From her Youtube channel to her Instagram stories, Sarah is beaming her positive vibes out into the teaching community. However, Sarah is also realistic about her challenges, and transparent when sharing the ups and the downs of teaching online. 2020 has been a challenging year, and during this recording Sarah shared her thoughts on happiness amid a pandemic.Listen in as Bron and Sarah swap stories, advice and discuss the importance of choosing hapiness! See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.
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Mr D Got Himself Banned from Tik Tok!
Mr D is a bit of a global sensation on Tik Tok, but in the last week he found himself banned from the platform for 'inappropriate' content on his live. But was it really, though? We've both seen a lot worse. How about you? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Time Chunking for Teachers (ReBuzz)
One of the biggest struggles teachers face is managing their time effectively and striking a healthy balance in their lives.We all know the sense of overwhelm we feel when the to-do list grows and regenerates faster than we can keep up.Time chunk...
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RUOK Day for Teachers
This week Sarah Weston, teacher and assistant principal, joins Bron to talk about how we can use RUOK Day (10 September) to show kindness to our colleagues, our students and ourselves.
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Colour Coding in the Classroom
To colour code or not? In this episode, we chat about the benefits of colour coding and lots of ways you may already be doing it. Do you like colour coding in the classroom? Join us in our new For the Love of Teaching Facebook group, where we chat a...
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Beginning and Establishing Teachers: Expectations and Realities
Mel Taylor is a relatively establishing teacher, having spent 3 years in the profession. She's undertaken a variety of roles, spending time as a casual and classroom teacher, and now Mel is using her Instagram page @taylormade_teaching_au to inspi...
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Blurting in Mr D's Classroom (Classic Mr D)
Calling out is a huge problem for teachers everywhere. Join us for this classic Friday Funny where Mr D shares the awkward moment when his student blurted in class!Join us in our new For the Love of Teaching Facebook group, where we chat about the p...
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What's The Strangest Thing a Student Has Brought to Your Classroom?
Teachers are great at improvising and thinking on their feet when lessons go unexpectedly. But does that skill transfer to the moment you realise your student has brought something totally strange to school? Keep your cool, teachers; it's an initi...
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Foot Conditions Teachers Need to Know About
Podiatrist Sara tells us about two common conditions she sees in her teacher patients, and offers some great, professional tips for preventing future foot conditions.
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You'll Never Look at a Cafeteria Hotdog the Same Way (Classic Mr D)
American elementary schools are known for many great things; iconic yellow buses, locker-lined halls and sunlit classrooms. They're also homes of cafeterias which serve some questionable items (think sloppy joes and hotdogs). In this episode, one ...
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Kids Do the Grossest Things (ReBuzz)
There are some things that formal teacher training courses fail to teach us. For instance, the many disgusting and gross things kids do in the classroom. Teachers, we've said it before: you're amazing. Join us in our new For the Love of Te...
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The Science of Reading Explained
The Science of Reading is the result of a major body of research in English speaking countries. Clare Wood discusses effective literacy instruction through the guidance of the research.
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What Did You Just Say? (Classic Mr D)
In this episode, Joe recalls the hairiest encounter he's had with a kindergarten student, and tells us his 'favourite' part of chatting with really little kids in the halls at his school.Joe (Mr D) Dombrowski is here to brighten up yo...
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We're Buzzing About Issue Two of The Magazine!
After the success of issue one of What's Buzzing magazine last year, and an influx of requests for more issues, the Teach Starter team has just wrapped up work on the second issue!