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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What Does the Word 'Burnout' Mean to You?
Welcome to Teacher Voicemail, where we give teachers a voice every week to reach thousands of other teachers and strengthen our community!This week we asked teachers: What does the word 'burnout' mean to you?Thank you to all of the teachers who joined in this discussion. It's certainly a confronting and difficult thing to talk about and acknowledge. Burnout affects so many teachers. Please do take care of yourselves and if you need support, call Lifeline. Next week we're asking you to: Tell us which state you teach in, without telling us!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.
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Unleash Your Creativity - Cassie Stephens
"When you're a happy person, you're a happy teacher. Your happiness is what will be contagious in your classroom!" The incredible Cassie Stephens is back with us, and this time she's sharing all about her creative passions!
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How Much Do Teachers Work on Weekends?
Welcome to Teacher Voicemail, where we give teachers a voice every week to reach thousands of other teachers and strengthen our community!This week we asked teachers: How many hours do you work on the weekends?Listen to hear what they said! Confirmation (if we ever needed it) that teachers are amazing. Next week we're asking: What does the word 'burnout' mean to you?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.
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LGBTQ Student Wellbeing and Safety - Erin Castillo
How can we cultivate safe classroom culture for LGBTQ students and families?Erin Castillo teaches Special Ed and is a peer counselor in the California Bay Area. She’s a mental health advocate, and today she’s back to talk about how we can help LGBTQ students feel safe, accepted, and loved in our classrooms, how important LGBTQ representation in literature and media is for all students, and how to be an ally and support LGBTQ students and families. We also talk about the mental health check-in chart that she designed for her students.
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Creating Safe Schools for LGBTQ Students and Families
Pride month has come and gone for another year, and while it was a wonderful time highlighting and celebrating our LGBTQ community, it's still absolutely crucial for us, as teachers, to ensure that all of our students feel safe, respected, and loved year-round.
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What Would You Change about Education?
Welcome to Teacher Voicemail, where we give teachers a voice every week to reach thousands of other teachers and strengthen our community!This week we asked teachers: If you could change one thing about education what would it be?Listen to hear what they said and here's the link to the curriculum consultation I mentioned. Next week we're asking: How much of your weekend do you spend working?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.
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Teaching Financial Literacy - Yanely Espinal
Listen as the creator of MissBeHelpful YouTube channel and Director of Educational Outreach at Next Gen Personal Finance, Yanely Espinal, shares her thoughts on why teaching financial literacy is critical in schools.
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Remote Teaching - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
I was recently joined by Tam, from MissLearningBee, on an Instagram live, to talk about the good, the bad and the ugly of remote teaching and we've popped that together for you to listen to today on the show.
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Mr D and the Music Concert
There's always one... one student in any concert who goes completely rogue and steals the show. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Student Mental Health - Erin Castillo
Erin Castillo teaches Special Ed and is a peer counsellor in the California Bay Area. She's a mental health advocate, and Today we are lucky enough to have Erin to here talk about:Student Mental Health and the importance of checking in with each of our students regularly.The catalyst in her classroom which made her stop and think about the importance of not only prioritising student's academic learning, but also their mental health?Her Mental Health Check In Chart.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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Theme Day Ideas for Remote Learning
With many of us navigating remote learning, Jill and Bron are chatting today about some fun theme days for your students to do while learning from home. For more info, check out Holly's awesome blog, 21 Theme Day Ideas for Remote Learning. 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 that save teachers hours of time and make their classrooms buzz!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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What's Your Teacher Personality?
Welcome to Teacher Voicemail, where we give teachers a voice every week to reach thousands of other teachers and strengthen our community!This week we asked teachers: How do you inject your personality into your teaching?Listen to hear what they said!Next week we're asking: How do you bring your personality into the classroom?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 that save teachers hours of time and make their classrooms buzz!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Essential Truths for Every Teacher - Danny Steele
Educator and author Danny Steele has 28 years of experience in the public school system in Alabama. 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. In this episode, Danny shares these with us!Follow Danny on Twitter for your daily dose of teacher inspiration!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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Copyright in the Classroom - David Sohn and Brittany Fleming
When we talk about digital literacies, often the first thing that comes to mind is educating kids about privacy, security, and cyberbullying.Today's children may be large-scale consumers of online media, but they are also creators, publishers, distributors, and critics. The digital landscape is an environment rich with possibilities. Still, it also creates an immediate, practical need: Students have to know how to interact with creative work in ethical and legal ways.Copyright is becoming an essential element of digital literacy - because everyone is a publisher now.David Sohn is an attorney who has developed Copyright and Creativity - a free, open-source curriculum to help teachers navigate education on this topic. He's joined on this episode by teacher Brittany Fleming, who uses this curriculum in her classes.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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Challenging the Notion of Learning Loss - with Ron Berger
Learning loss is the idea that students have suffered a collective educational deficit due to the global pandemic. We're joined by Ron Berger to find out 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.
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Hit Refresh
It's a really weird time, right, guys? Queensland teachers return to face-to face learning this week, while Victorian teachers enter another lockdown and remote learning period. Here are some ideas for how to reset yourself and help to feel a little bit normal, it very unusual times. Stay safe and well. 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 that save teachers hours of time and make their classrooms buzz!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Teachers' Messages of Support for Beginning Teachers!
Being a beginning teacher is challenging, and transitioning from a largely theory-based, academic understanding of education into a real-life, operational classroom with students with diverse needs, can be tricky. Throw in a pandemic, some remote learning, and physical isolation from your teaching friends and colleagues, and the challenge grows. But it's not bad news. Beginning teachers right now are developing resilience and flexibility which will hold them in good stead throughout their careers.We asked some teachers in the field: What's your best advice for beginning teachers?Listen to hear what they said!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 that save teachers hours of time and make their classrooms buzz!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Lessons Learned in a Global Pandemic - with Cassie Stephens
Having had three school years, now, affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, what are the key learnings for teachers? Where are those elusive silver linings for learners?
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Completely Composite
Have you ever taught a composite or multi-age class? One Brisbane school has gone completely composite in its upper years classrooms, and the change has been super successful!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 that save teachers hours of time and make their classrooms buzz!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Welcome to the Teach Starter Podcast!
Welcome to the Teach Starter podcast, where teaching inspiration begins!At Teach Starter, we help teachers and their students have more of those amazing aha moments in the classroom. Every week, we'll be bringing you updates and news about the teaching profession!We think teaching is the best job in the world... and we're here to help you thrive, teachers! Let's do this.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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Realities of Remote Teaching and Learning
Hello and happy Friday teachers! What a week that was! We've had schools in Victoria and South Australia come out of lockdown, while teachers in New South Wales learned that they will be teaching remotely for some time still.So many of us have been through this before and it never gets easy, but teaching is a big and inclusive and supportive community and we are here for each other. In this week's teacher voicemail, we asked for some messages of support, and Lisa from Redpoppy's Class has shared some of her own experiences. Take a listen.Welcome to Teacher Voicemail, our newest mini-episode coming to you every Friday! If you've got something to share, DM us on Instagram and send a voice recording (just tap the little microphone icon to start). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Primary to Secondary - Sharing with our Colleagues in other Sectors.
A recent chance-conversation Jill had with a secondary teacher got us thinking: how can we support and help our education colleagues and bridge the gap between primary and secondary sectors?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 that save teachers hours of time and make their classrooms buzz!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Tokyo Games Activities for Your Class!
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are due to start very soon, and we have some excellent teaching resources for your students! 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 that save teachers hours of time and make their classrooms buzz!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Well, that's awkward!
Kids say they darndest things, and sometimes your students will surprise you at the most unexpected moment (but usually when there's a visitor to the classroom!)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 that save teachers hours of time and make their classrooms buzz!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Playing Dodgeball with Mr D
How do you think Mr D would fare in a dodgeball competition with some little kids? Find out!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 that save teachers hours of time and make their classrooms buzz!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Should Teachers be Prioritized to Receive the COVID-19 Vax?
The Delta variant which has been spreading throughout the country these school holidays is known to be far more transmissable, particularly among children.
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Mr D and the Awful Zoo Excursion
We all have those awful days in teaching, and some we'll never forget. 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 that save teachers hours of time and make their classrooms buzz!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Sustainable Cleaning Tips from the Classroom to the Home
After all of the hustle and bustle of the term, the break is a great time to have a huge clean up at home! If you're like me, you'll love a good home refresh. Here are some environmentally friendly ways to have your abode sparkling. If on the other hand, cleaning's the last thing on your mind, feel free to skip this one! Teach Starter's committed to sustainable practices. 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 that save teachers hours of time and make their classrooms buzz!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Mr D and the Incursion of Shame
Hey teachers.... What about those cringe moments when a visitor to your school is on the receiving end of some, let's say, "personality" from one of your students? We've ALL been there!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 that save teachers hours of time and make their classrooms buzz!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Let's Talk About Parental Leave, Baby!
Do you know what your entitlements are around paid parental leave? If you're interested in learning about the best way to prepare for your leave when a little one is due to join your life, this episode is unmissable!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 that save teachers hours of time and make their classrooms buzz!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.