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What’s going to help recruit and retain teachers? | Research for the Real World
In this podcast we hear about whether more pay and fewer working hours should be prioritised to address teacher shortages, and what can be done to support the retentio...
One Hundred Years of Gratitude: 4 old teachers walk into a staffroom | ECF Staffroom
Elaine and Mark add their mere 42 years of classroom experience to the 58 (and counting) of Annie Powell and Helen Lugger, meeting in the staffroom to answer questions...
Why is there a worldwide shortage of teachers? | Research for the Real World
We know that teacher shortages are an issue in most developed countries. How has the pandemic and pay played a role, and what can be done to address this? Research fo...
PREVIEW: How addressing teacher recruitment and retention issues can help improve education | Research for the Real World
It’s widely reported that there are ongoing and severe teacher shortages around the world. But what do we mean by teacher shortages? In terms of causes, teacher short...
Everything Everywhere All At Once: The life of a Year 1 ECT | ECF Staffroom
Kate Hill, a first year ECT, is an Art teacher at Chosen Hill School near Cheltenham. She talks about having ‘to be like a swan’, projecting calm when nothing seems to...
Context is king: how ECTs are affected by the conditions they are working in and by their own personal dispositions | ECF Staffroom
Sofia Eleftheriadou and Lisa Baines are post-doctoral researchers at UCL’s Centre for Educational Leadership. Sofia and Lisa came into the ECF Staffroom to share the ...
Race, multiculture, and conviviality | TCRU@50 Roundtable
This roundtable is the first event in the TCRU@50 programme of activities celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Thomas Coram Research Unit. Following an introductio...
Sharing our love of languages | International Mother Language Day
Join Dr Michael Spence (UCL President & Provost) and Professor Li Wei (IOE Director & Dean) as they discuss their shared love of languages: from raising bilingual chil...
The distinct skillsets of good mentoring | ECF Staffroom
Being an ECT cheerleader and a facilitator of their pedagogical progress. Haili Hughes is a writer, expert on mentoring and facilitator on the UCL ECF programme. Ha...
'Survivors' | UCL Centre for Holocaust Education
This podcast aims to bring the latest academic research on the Holocaust into the classroom. ‘Survivors’ is a conversation between Dr Rebecca Clifford of Swansea Unive...
Top advice from our education coach: Remember you’ve got a body… and listen to it | ECF Staffroom
Siobhan Goffee is co-host of the podcast series and coaching programme for educators, ‘Joyblockers – and how to get rid of them’. Siobhan talked to us about when teac...
‘Sometimes it can feel like we have to pick up the pieces and do things for ourselves' | ECF Staffroom
Why the ECF programme needed to be adapted for teachers in special schools Melanie Hogan is the deputy headteacher at Castlebar Special School in Ealing. Melanie invi...
A "pedagogy of hope"? | Research for the Real World
Our guest Professor Douglas Bourn is aware that “hope” can often be considered an idealistic and utopian term, but if it is grounded in real-life issues and challenges...
Breaking the cycle of inequality: making space for LGBTQ+ issues on the ECF programme | ECF Staffroom
Emanuele Frascadore is in his first year of the ECF Programme at Rosedale College, in Hayes. He talks with us about how we can create an inclusive environment for LGBT...
What kind of climate change education do we actually need? | Research for the Real World
It’s widely acknowledged that more climate change or sustainability education is needed. What’s probably missing is the kind of learning, aims and agendas required to ...
Doing a week in a day: practitioner inquiry for busy Early Career Teachers | ECF Staffroom
Tayaba Chaudhry, Celeste Leonard and Liv Moran are in their second year of their ECF Programme at Burnage Academy in Manchester. They are joined by Erin Brown, their i...
Placing intergenerational learning at the heart of climate change education | Research for the Real World
This podcast features work that helps highlight the role of children and the duty of adults in raising awareness of this crisis and caring for the environment, so that...
Reimagining education for climate justice and sustainable development | Research for the Real World
[PREVIEW] With students and young people increasingly aware of the impact of climate change and wanting to do something about it, in this season of Research for the Re...
Taking ownership of their own learning: mentoring on Year 2 of the ECF programme | ECF Staffroom
Kate Atkin is a Deputy Headteacher at Balby Central Primary Academy in Doncaster. As a facilitator on Year 2 of the Early Roll Out Programme, she shares with us how sh...
The 'we are in it together approach' to facilitation: keeping an eye on ECTs’ welfare | ECF Staffroom
Jill Whitehouse is a Deputy Headteacher in South Gosforth First School. She is a mentor and a facilitator on the ECF programme. She talked to us about her many years’ ...
