Posts by Mark Taylor
138: OneStep CPD by Twinkl
OneStep CPD provides free CPD courses for teachers to give you the tools and support to improve how you teach.
Our guest Sally Hill is the CPD Manager at OneStep CPD and dedicated to improving teaching and learning by up-skilling teachers to be more effective and confident when delivering lessons. Sally was previously a History Teacher in Manchester for 5 years, including spells as a Head of Department and CPD Lead.
One Step CPD is provided by Twinkl.
‘We regularly talk to customers about the issues they face and as a result of these conversations, we began to understand that CPD often misses the mark. What teachers really wanted was actionable CPD that was relevant to them and their careers.’
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The National Association for Primary Education speaks for young children and all who live and work with them. This includes parents, teachers, governors and all those interested in primary education. NAPE is a non-political charity and works tirelessly to support teachers in the classroom. NAPE leads the Primary Umbrella Group of thirty primary subject associations and unions and gives teachers and schools a voice at governmental level at consultative meetings with ministers for schools.
For full details of how they can support you please visit their website at nape.org.uk
‘Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire’
137: Life on the Front Row with Jon Vroman.
Jon Vroman joins me on the Education on Fire podcast and explores the most important learning and educational moments that shaped his life.
Jon helps others be “Moment Makers”. He is married to his gorgeous and free-spirited wife Tatyana and father of two energetic and playful boys, Tiger and Ocean, and live in Austin, Texas.
Jon is the founder of the Front Row Foundation, a charity established in 2005 that creates unforgettable moments for individuals who are braving life-threatening illnesses. They provide a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to “live life in the front row™” by granting “front row moments” to live events of their recipients dreams.
He’s also the founder of a global network of men at FrontRowDads.com. They believe in being “Family men with businesses, not businessmen with families.” He’s host of the top-rated Front Row Dads podcasts, where Jon interviews experts and every-day dads from around the world, to extract and understand the rituals, routines and habits that help every man better serve their families and communities.
As the author of #1 bestselling book The Front Row Factor, Jon helps readers “Learn about living life, from those fighting for it.”
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Resource mentioned
Ultramarathon Man – Dean Karnazes
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‘Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire’
Education on Fire Podcast 1 min trailer
A one minute trailer that outlines what the Education on Fire Podcast is all about and how to listen.
‘Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire’
136: Special Education with Professor Barry Carpenter
Professor Barry Carpenter has been a headteacher of three schools in the UK, a national director at the UK government’s Department for Education and was the first professor of Mental Health in Education in the UK.
Barry’s due to retire this June and has had a very high-profile career in education over more than 40 years.
In fact, the UK government has just released guidance that Barry developed that helps schools understand how to assess pupils performing below the standard of the national curriculum assessments.
Barry can speak widely about how special needs education has changed since he started his career 40 years ago and how it needs to change further.
He has strong views on the need to ‘teach grief’ in schools and fears that the teaching profession is ill-equipped to deal with pupils’ and colleagues’ poor mental health.
Barry has published books, including one on autism and girls, and is in the Who’s Who in acknowledgement of his national and international contribution to the field of ‘Special Education’. He has been awarded the OBE and CBE for services to children with special needs.
https://www.brookes.ac.uk/school-of-education/
Resources mentioned:
Engaging People with Complex Needs (Routledge)
Show Sponsor
The National Association for Primary Education speaks for young children and all who live and work with them. This includes parents, teachers, governors and all those interested in primary education. NAPE is a non-political charity and works tirelessly to support teachers in the classroom. NAPE leads the Primary Umbrella Group of thirty primary subject associations and unions and gives teachers and schools a voice at governmental level at consultative meetings with ministers for schools.
For full details of how they can support you please visit their website at nape.org.uk
FREE music resources from Primary Music on Fire
We offer some FREE music resources and chat about things we have learnt from teaching music online.
www.educationonfire.com/recorder-free/
Emily’s music group for younger children