
Category Archives: Educational Leadership
TER #111 – Learning and Wellbeing with Helen Street – 29 April 2018

Links and notes coming soon!
Timecodes:
00:00:00 Opening Credits
00:01:31 Intro
00:02:28 NAPLAN in the news
00:15:04 Feature Introduction
00:16:32 Off Campus – Dan Haesler
00:18:44 Dr Helen Street
00:39:11 Announcements & Sign-Off
TER #107 – Implementing Educational Research with Tanya Vaughan – 04 Feb 2018

Main Feature: Dr Tanya Vaughan discusses implementation science, and outlines a framework for teachers to implement educational research as part of their teaching practice.
Regular Features: Off Campus – Dan Haesler explores the link between rising perfectionism and mental and emotional well being; Education in the news – Cameron considers the role of the media in promoting the increased commodification of education.
Timecodes:
00.00 Opening Credits
01:31 Intro – NAPLAN robot-marking halted
02:21 Off Campus – Dan Haesler
- Danhaesler.com
- Perfectionism Is Increasing Over Time: A Meta-Analysis
of Birth Cohort Differences From 1989 to 2016
15:11 Commodification of education
- Privately educating a child born in 2018 could cost $500,000 each as school fees skyrocket
- The Conversation: Why schools and corporate brands shouldn’t mix
30:48 Feature introduction
32:45 Interview – Dr Tanya Vaughan
59:05 Quote & Sign Off
TER #105 – Design Thinking as TPL with Lesley Henderson – 10 Dec 2017
Main Feature: Lesley Henderson from Flinders University discusses the use of Design Thinking as an approach to Teacher Professional learning.
Regular Features: Dan Haesler discusses teacher workload in Off Campus; Cameron discusses news stories about NAPLAN robot marking and recently released PIRLS results, as well as the future of the TER Podcast.
Timecodes:
00.00 Opening Credits
01:31 Intro
01:59 Off Campus – Dan Haesler
17:19 NAPLAN robot marking
21:48 PIRLS data shows growing divide
28:35 Feature Introduction
30:36 Lesley Henderson – interview
- IDEO U Design Thinking page
- Lesley Henderson – Flinders University profile page
- The World Council for Gifted and Talented Children 22nd Biennial Conference
1:01:19 Announcements
1:06:36 Quote & Sign Off
TER #096 – The Michaela School (UK) with Katharine Birbalsingh – 23 July 2017

Main Feature: In a special edition of Off Campus, Dan Haesler speaks with Katharine Birbalsingh, the Principal/Head Teacher of the controversial Michaela Community School in the UK.
Regular Features: Education in the News, Cameron reviews a story about mandatory student participation in Victorian school councils. Tom Gordon talks about his work as a science communicator for the University of Sydney, and his podcast, STEMpunk
Links and Timecodes:
00.00 Opening Credits
01:19 Student Voice and School Governance
18:22 Tom Gordon – STEMpunk Podcast
41:27 Feature Introduction
43:39 Dan Haesler – Off Campus
45:11 Katharine Birbalsingh – Interview
1:22:40 Comments
1:31:19 Announcements – TMWooly
1:31:50 Quote & Sign Off
TER #095 – 4th Anniversary Double Feature – 9 July 2017
This is the 4th Anniversary of the teachers’ Education Review Podcast! To celebrate, we present 2 feature interviews. Dan Haesler presents a special feature edition of Off Campus, with UK educator & author Phil Beadle, talking about education on TV and other issues; Cameron interviews David Rutkowski from the Centre for Educational Management in Oslo about his recent publication, ‘The Global Education Race: Taking the measure of PISA and international testing”.
Links & Timecodes:
00.00 Opening Credits
01:19 Intro – 4 years of TER Podcast
05:43 Off Campus – Dan Haesler
08:36 Interview – Phil Beadle
34:36 Introduction – David Rutkowski
- David Rutkowski’s profile at CEMO
- The Global Education Race on Google books
36:59 Interview – David Rutkowski
1:24:38 Thanks, Quote & Sign Off
TER #091 – Coaching and Teacher Professional Learning – 30 April 2017

Main Features: Tony Loughland discusses the role of coaching in Teacher Professional Learning, and proposes the idea that TPL and coaching could be considered part of a school’s ‘middle management’.
Cameron talks to Pete Whiting and John Catterson about their education podcast Teachers Talking Teaching.
Regular features: Off Campus, Dan Haesler talks about the importance of Mastery in student engagement and wellbeing; Education in the News, Cameron discusses the news that all states and territories have now withdrawn from online NAPLAN trials in 2017.
Links & Timecodes:
00.00 Opening Credits
01:19 Intro – NAPLAN Online trial cancelled
05:29 Off Campus – Dan Haesler
19:33 Teachers Talking Teaching – Podcasting & Flipped Learning
46:34 Feature intro
48:54 Interview – Tony Loughland
1:28:50 Vale Simon McKenzie
TER #090 – Transforming Schools with Michael Anderson – 16 April 2017

Main Feature: Michael Anderson talks about the ‘Four Cs’ of Education and how they can be used to transform schools, and return focus to learning as the centre of curriculum.
Regular Features: Cameron reviews recent news stories about the Qld. govt. withdrawing from the online NAPLAN trial, and the NSW Govt. rejection of their independent review of Special Religious Education.
Links and Timecodes
00.00 Opening Credits
01:19 Intro – Ministerial Council Meeting
04:16 QLD withdraws from NAPLAN online
- NAPLAN: Queensland pulls out of online trial saying it will disadvantage students
- NSW government rejects findings of independent review into scripture in schools
14:50 NSW rejects SRE inquiry findings
21:02 Feature intro
23:05 Interview – Michael Anderson
- Michael Anderson – profile page
- Transforming Schools – Creativity, Critical Reflection, Communication, Collaboration
1:08:24 Announcements
1:08:57 Quote & Sign Off
TER #089 – Questioning ‘Evidence Based Practice’ with Charlotte Pezaro – 02 April 2017

Main feature: Charlotte Pezaro discusses the implications and nuances of ‘Evidence Based Practice’, particularly as it applies to teaching.
Regular Features: Off Campus-Dan Haesler explores a model for managing change in schools; Listener Contribution-Tom from Victoria shares his experience of taking students to see Hidden Figures; Education in the News-Cameron discusses school catchment zones being used to boost property prices.
00.00 Opening Credits
01:19 Intro – Cast Away Awards
Australian Education Podcasts
07:51 Hidden Figures & Teaching Maths
10:15 Off Campus – Dan Haesler
24:52 Secondary Commercialisation of Education
40:48 Feature Introduction
41:25 Interview – Charlotte Pezaro
1:28:46 Quote & Sign Off
TER #087 – The Teaching & Learning Toolkit with Tanya Vaughan and Janet Clinton – 5 March 2017
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Main Feature: Dr Tanya Vaughan and Professor Janet Clinton talk discuss the Teaching and learning Toolkit, which provides summaries of education research to identify the impact and cost of various teaching and school management strategies.
Regular Features: Off Campus, Dan Haesler questions online discussions about research in education; Education in the News, What impact do minimum wage shave on student learning? and Cameron discusses recent reports of schools that exclude students from exams in order to maintain higher results.
Timecodes & Links
00.00 Opening Credits
01:19 Intro – Gonski Campaign Bus
06:18 Off Campus – Dan Haesler
16:58 Students and Minimum Wages
23:21 Excluding students for school reputation
34:55 Feature Introduction
37:34 Feature Interview – Dr Tanya Vaughan and Prof. Janet Clinton
1:08:43 Discussion
1:20:11 Quote & Sign Off


