24 | Supporting Regional and Remote Children’s Participation in Early Childhood Education
Following from our last episode about teaching in rural and remote schools, in this episode we discuss Early Childhood Education in rural locations. Dr Loraine Fordham chats with Michele Carnegie, Ch…
23 | Teaching in a rural setting
Ever thought about teaching in a rural location? Michael Fisher, placement coordinator for Far West NSW schools, talks about what it’s like teaching in rural communities and shares his vast experienc…
22 | Empowering education through AI: Revolution or evolution? Arts After Dark follow-up
Join Professor Matt Bower, Dr Jodie Torrington, and Dr Tamika Worrall as they follow up on the “Empowering education through AI: Revolution or evolution?” Arts After Dark event held recently at Macqu…
21 | Every teacher is a literacy teacher
In this episode, education expert Rose Garofano shares her passion for literacy and discusses how every teacher can help develop student literacy skills through the explicit teaching of vocabulary. R…
20 | Help! I'm teaching Society & Culture for the first time
In this episode, we continue our focus on out-of-field teaching in high schools, this time about teaching Society and Culture. Kendra Bruseker, an experienced Society and Culture teacher, unpacks wh…
19 | Help! I’m teaching Legal Studies for the first time
In this episode, we are talking about out-of-field teaching in high schools – and focusing specifically on teaching Legal Studies. Natasha Isbel, an ex-corporate lawyer and experienced Legal Studies…
18 | Helping pre-service teachers think about AI in schools
In this episode, Dr. Renee Preval-Mann explores the critical intersection of AI and education with expert Dr. Jodie Torrington. Discover practical strategies for pre-service teachers to effectively i…
17 | Supporting students with speech and language in the classroom
In this episode, MQ speech pathologist and lecturer Rebecca McNeil explains how speech pathologists can support individual students, small groups, and even work with whole classes to support communic…
16 | The difficult child? How to respond professionally to challenging behaviour
In this episode, visiting German scholar Dr. Andrea Tures discusses her new book “The difficult child? Responding professionally to challenging behaviour”. She encourages teachers to find out the rea…
15 | Creativity and Digital Technologies
In this episode, Bronwyn Tregenza discusses the intricacies of defining and implementing different types of creativity into the classroom. Explore the role teachers play in fostering both familiar an…
14 | Technology in the classroom
Technology in the Classroom
In this episode, Dr Jodie Torrington discusses the impact of students having individual digital devices in the classroom. Discover how access to teacher-made, differenti…
13 | Multilingual Australian picture books
In this episode, Associate Professor Alice Chik explores the power of multilingual picture books in education. Learn how translating and teaching from Australian picture books fosters a deeper unders…
12 | Managing Complex Behaviour
In this episode, we learn from renowned international expert Associate Professor Kathleen Tait about PBS – Positive Behaviour Support, the importance of explicitly teaching behaviour strategies to yo…
11 | Complex Communication Needs
In this episode, we learn from renowned international expert Associate Professor Kathleen Tait about the form and function of potential communicative acts and find out how to identify them. Kathleen …
10 | Understanding neurodiversity
In this episode of our Inclusive Education series, we focus on neurodiversity and neurodivergent students. Dr Poulomee Datta, Lecturer in Inclusive Education, and Dr Anne McMaugh, Senior Lecturer in …
9 | Supporting students with sensory processing differences
Our Inclusive Education series continues: in this episode, we chat about sensory processing. Dr Diana Tan explains the eight senses, and shares strategies to support students with sensory processing …
8 | Supporting Deaf and Hard of Hearing students in the classroom
Our Inclusive Education series begins with a chat with Inclusive Education lecturer, Dr Iliana Skrebneva and Trudy Smith from NextSense, who discuss how teachers can support deaf and hard of hearing …
7 | AI prompting: top hints and techniques
In this episode, Dr Brian Ballsun-Stanton helps us understand how AI works, and chats about how we can best interact with frontier model LLMs (Large Language Models) to be effective users of AI techn…
6 | Indigenous Inclusion in an AI world
In this episode, Dr Tamika Worrell from the Department of Critical Indigenous Studies chats about considerations and implications for Indigenous inclusion and data sovereignty in a generative AI worl…
5 | Trauma informed practice in Early Childhood Education
In this episode, Professor Fay Hadley, an Early Childhood academic at Macquarie University chats with Beth Macgregor, Director of Macgregor Consulting, about the importance of co-regulation and how t…