Why Teach?
A podcast about the people who become the teachers who guide our lives.
Who is that person in front of the whiteboard, the smartboard, the chalkboard? How did they end up there? What did it take to become a person who wants to inspire and guide future generations?
In Why Teach? Australian teachers talk about the paths which lead to their current career, and the things they have picked up along the way.
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- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 26
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
HIP Beijing 2025 - Professor Yong Zhao with Sam, Carrie and Michael (22-8-25)
At the beginning of the HIP Learning Camp, Beijing, Professor Yong Zhao posed the students and educators present a series of questions to bring with them through the week. Top of the list was "What i…
HIP Beijing 2025 - Li Tianze feat. Sam, Michael and Carrie (21-8-25)
In many ways, Li Tianze typifies a contemporary approach to organising and designing education. Tianze talks about his complex methods of considering and carrying out the huge range of student-focuse…
HIP Beijing 2025 - Dr Trina Emler feat. Michael Jacobsen, Dr Sam Franzway and Dan Clift (19-9-25)
Sometimes you have to get these chats on tape. Or MicroSD. In what began as one of those free-floating ideas chats during a student workshop, Dr Trina Emler talks with University Senior College's Mic…
HIP Beijing 2025 - Sarah, Rose, Riya and Lyla (19-8-25)
Sarah, Rose, Riya and Lyla speak about their experience of being Teaching Assistants (or "Coaches") in the Human Interdependence Project learning camp, held in Beijing. They discuss and reflect on th…
HIP Beijing 2025 - John Petzke (18-8-25)
Sam and Michael share their experiences of the HIP Camp held in Chongqing, China in 2024 and how the camp developed into Beijing 2025, especially around the use of AI.
This podcast is from a series of…
HIP Beijing 2025 - Dan Clift and Carrie Phillips (17-8-25)
Pulteney Grammar teachers Carrie Phillips and Dan Clift talk with Michael Jacobsen and Sam Franzway about their experiences of the Human Interdependence Project and the ways that AI and self-located …
HIP Trip to China: Professor Yong Zhao and Australian teachers Michael and Sam
In this very special episode, Professor Yong Zhao joins Michael Jacobsen and Sam Franzway on the fifth day of the HIP Learning Festival in Chongqing, China, to talk about the inception of the concept…
HIP Trip to China: Mark McCormick and Australian teachers Michael and Sam
Mark McCormick joins Michael Jacobsen and Sam Franzway to talk about the origins of his teaching and how he came to be standing in the Human Interdependency Project classroom in Chongqing. The pathwa…
HIP Trip to China: Dr Trina Emler and Australian teachers Michael and Sam
Dr Trina Emler shares the experience of bringing a high-level, multi-country learning festival together, and the impetus behind moving towards an interdependence model of teaching in the classroom. W…
HIP Trip to China: Chinese Teacher Amy and Australian teachers Michael and Sam
Teacher Amy talks with Michael Jacobsen and Sam Franzway about teaching in the HIP program, and the work of conveying complex ideas across the language barrier, while still keeping the content releva…
HIP Trip to China: Australian teachers Michael, Sam and Vanessa Grave
Day 1: University Senior College colleagues, Vanessa Grave (USC Director of Marketing and Community Relations), Michael Jacobsen and Sam Franzway discuss their first impressions of China, Chongqing, …
Special Episode - HIP Trip to China: Michael and Sam introduce a teaching project
This podcast usually looks at the backgrounds of the teachers who come on; what inspired them to get into teaching, and what keeps them inspired. On this very special episode, previous guest and abso…
Kylie Urlichs
Steve Todd
On this first in-depth interview of 2024, Sam speaks with Research Project teacher, Year Level Dean, Steve Todd. We talk about the interesting pathways of life that lead people to become teachers, an…
Ethan and Jeremy
Teaching in 2024
Welcome to the new year of teaching in 2024. In this exciting introduction to the new year's teaching challenges, Sam interviews previous Why Teach? hero, Michael Jacobsen about their shared project …
Elly Pfitzner
Simon Butters
What happens when an artist becomes a teacher? On this episode of Why Teach?, English teacher and former TV writer, Simon Butters, shares his fascinating pathway from university drama productions, to…
Anita Zocchi
Michael Jacobsen
Musician, surfer, father, teacher. Michael Jacobsen is all this and more. On this episode, Michael talks about his own beginnings as a teacher abroad in London, before he moved sideways into the busi…