Teachers Talk Radio

Join Famida Choudhary on The Lunch Show with English educator and trainer Divya Joyce J as they explore how public speaking can transform English learning. From building confidence and vocabulary to supporting quieter learners, strengthening oracy and finding an authentic voice in the age of AI, discover practical ways to create classrooms where every child feels they have something worth saying.

Bedfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner John Tizard recently declared: “School exclusions are failures.” He argues that minimising exclusions could reduce crime and help young people build positive futures. Join Tom Rogers live on Teachers Talk Radio as he asks John what prompted the statement.

Homework has long been a bone of contention between home and school. A report in the TES this week reports that “Homework is Vanishing” as teachers set less and family lives make its completion increasingly difficult. And this is before debates over content, time taken, level of challenge, too much vs too little and access to resources are considered. Times have changed. More young people are living in homes where both parents need to work and time together is built around after-school care and clubs. Should small windows of family time be spent in a battleground on homework? Teachers’ workloads have exploded; setting, marking and chasing homework is yet another administrative task which absorbs time but is the value added worth it? Would teachers be better spending this time adding value to face-to-face teaching? However, with curriculum time increasingly stretched, is homework the only time for certain tasks to be completed? Is homework an important opportunity to consolidate learning? And with revision the ultimate goal, do we need to lay the groundwork for this from early on? Has the time come to evaluate who and what homework is really for? Join Rae Whitehouse, Lucy Trimnell, Maud Waret and Liz Webb on the panel live at 10am to add your views to the debate..

In this episode, Toby talks to Hayley Carlyon about creating lessons which engage, entice and motivate learning. We go from the importance of building relationships to discussing activities and strategies that work in the classroom.

We talk how to cope when things change in and outside the classroom.