Beyond Survival: The New Teacher Podcast

• Book release day: The Essentials in Learning to Teach

  Today is the publication of Colin and Jamie's new book 'The Essentials in learning to Teach'. The book is all about how you can thrive and succeed in your year of learning to teach. In this episode they discuss what motivated them to write the book, and begin to share some practical strategies from the ten essentials that the book is made up of. If you would like to order a copy of the book it is available here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Essentials-Learning-Teach-Thriving-secondary/dp/1398387479. 

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• Cheat Codes for New Teachers

  In this episode Colin McGill interviews Kirsten Colquhoun to explore some top tips for teachers at the start of their careers. Kirsten is an education consultant, author, and Pastoral Lead with nearly two decades of experience working in schools.The questions they explore in this interview are: What do you think are the biggest challenges facing early career teachers?What advice do you have for planning lessons?How can novice teachers manage their classroom environment?How should novice teachers be using the support mechanisms available to them in schools?How can novice teachers fulfil their pastoral responsibilities?Hope you enjoy the episode - if so, please do pass it on! 

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• The A-Z of teacher skills: Gratitude

  This episode explores the role that gratitude plays in education. It looks at ways you can express thanks to shape positive attitudes and effort in your lessons, and how it can overcome the negativity bias and help us to feel positive about the work we do in education. I mention in this episode about wanting to hear from listeners, please get in touch via email: [email protected]

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• How can new teachers make their relationship with their mentor work?

  Today’s episode is the 100th episode of the podcast! Great to reach this milestone, and thank you so much to all the listeners for the support.  On this episode I am joined by Dr Kathleen Forbes. Kathleen is a senior consultant clinician for Place 2 Be, a mental health charity. For the past seven years Place 2 Be has been working with new teachers to improve their wellbeing and reflective capacity. In this interview we answer the question: how can new teachers make their relationship with their mentor work? In answering that central question we also answer:   Could you tell listeners about the work Place 2 Be does with new teachers?  From your experience, what are some of the challenges new teachers can face in working with mentors?   What work can new teachers do to prepare themselves for the mentor-relationship before it begins?   What general strategies do you think will help a student-teacher during the mentor relationship? Thank you for listening, please do pass it on! 

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• The A-Z of Teacher Skills: Focus

  This ten minute talk explores the role that focus has in being a successful teacher. It looks at how we can role-model focus for young people; how we can improve our capacity to focus on young people and relationships; and some practical ways to avoid multi-tasking in the classroom and build our 'focus' muscles. 

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