Atomi Brainwaves is a podcast about education for educators, where we look at key issues in the world of pedagogy and speak with a variety of teaching experts and influencers. This podcast is brought to you by Atomi, an online teaching and learning platform that provides syllabus specific video lessons, quizzes, practice materials and advanced analytics for schools across the globe.
Author, blogger and teacher Karl Pupé joins us to share his extensive history of working with at-risk children and breaks down his wisdom and strategies with regards to best practice behaviour manage…
Special education consultant and expert Tim Connell shares his 20-year expertise of working in special education and breaks down some of the best strategies for teachers to provide support for studen…
Educational author and blogger, Alex Quigley outlines the reasons behind and challenges posed by reading and vocabulary gaps and outlines various strategies teachers and educational policy-makers can…
Google certified educator, Vicki Davis shares her journey in education blogging and podcasting and how it has led to the creation of a global teaching platform and network for her, her colleagues, an…
Simon Hunt, social media presence and specialist leader in education, joins us to discuss his teaching journey, the innovations he brings to both his classroom and to the classrooms of others through…
Specialist leader in education, Steph Reed shares with us her expertise on teaching children with autism in both a mainstream and specialist school setting, as well as exploring educational policies …
Our resident teaching expert, Su tackles the age-old issue of exam preparation, discussing the challenges exams and assessments pose for students, the different ways teachers can help their students …
Educational thought leader and expert, Barrie Bennett, joins us to discuss Instructional Intelligence – the theory and research behind it, and the systemic change his programmes have brought about ev…
Author of the Learning Spy, David Didau tackles the ever-relevant issue of the advantage gap that exists in education, how it can be addressed from a school and teacher based perspective and the role…
Our teaching expert Su walks us through her history of leading various departments in different schools and countries, and the wisdom she gathered along the way in terms of handling managing a team o…
Author of over 20 books and leading voice in education, Guy Claxton breaks down his Learning Power Approach from the research and theory underpinning, and the history of its development, to its pract…
In this edition of the Mailbag, where Su and I take on questions sent to us by our teacher listeners, we tackle how to handle having your own son in your class, approaching new government guidelines …
Principal of the rapidly growing St Phillips Christian College In NSW, Darren Cox joins us to discuss the challenges involved in establishing culture and maintaining student and teacher wellbeing ami…
Our teacher expert Su joins us to tackle the ever-relevant issue of challenging behaviour in the classroom - the external and internal factors causing it, and the best and worst strategies for trying…
Digital learning leadership expert Mary-Lou O'Brien joins us to discuss her unique career in the business and education worlds, break down the challenges faced by eLearning leaders when dealing with …
Introducing the Mailbag edition, where Su and I take on questions sent to us by our teacher listeners! In this episode we discuss motivating students who are tired of online learning, handling a seni…
We are joined by eminent educational figure Dylan Wiliam to discuss his area of expertise: formative assessment - what exactly it is, why it is important, how teachers can implement it in their class…
The UK's most followed educator on social media, Ross Morrison McGill joins us to discuss the development of his blog the Teacher Toolkit from Twitter page to highly influential multi-content platfor…
Ready to Blend founder and president Heather Clayton Staker provides her expertise on how to disrupt traditional education systems with innovation, outline the best strategies for both hybrid and pur…