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Oxford Education Podcast

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  • This podcast brings together educational experts to discuss key issues in primary and secondary education. Enjoy fascinating insights and get practical tips to apply to your teaching. Brought to you by the Schools Team at Oxford University Press.
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  • 36. Reading for Pleasure with James Clements, Dr Sarah McGeown and Lindsay Pickton

    36. Reading for Pleasure with James Clements, Dr Sarah McGeown and Lindsay Pickton
    Nov 30 2023
    Mary Hamley James Clements Lindsay Pickton Dr. Sarah McGeown Learn all about the link between motivation and reading for pleasure in this insightful conversation between Oxford Education’s Mary Hamley and reading experts James Clements, Lindsay Pickton and Dr Sarah McGeown. We discuss how you can grow a reading culture in your classroom, how to encourage students to read for pleasure, and practical tips to support motivating students to read more. James Clements is an education writer and reading for pleasure advocate. Lindsay Pickton is primary English specialist. He tweets at @EnglishHubUK Dr Sarah McGeown is a reading for pleasure and literacy expert. She tweets at @DrSarahMcG Mary Hamley is Head of Primary Digital Literacy and Reading at Oxford University Press. Further reading and support: Learn more about Readerful - a new reading library packed with ingredients to motivate children to read more. Order a free Readerful taster pack for your school. Find out more about the Love to Read project that Sarah mentions.
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    49 mins
  • 35. Fight For Rights: Enrich Your KS3 History Curriculum

    35. Fight For Rights: Enrich Your KS3 History Curriculum
    Oct 16 2023
    Aaron Wilkes Josh Preye Garry Alex Fairlamb Becky Carter Dan Lyndon-Cohen Aaron Wilkes, Alex Fairlamb, Becky Carter, Dan Lyndon-Cohen and Josh Preye Garry discuss how effective teaching of case studies on the fights for Women's Rights, Disability Rights, Black Civil Rights and LGBTQ+ Rights can enrich your Key Stage 3 curriculum. What do students gain from studying these topics at KS3? How has historical scholarship changed in recent years? What is the impact of new research on how we should teach these topics? Aaron, Alex, Becky, Dan and Josh answer these questions and offer advice to any teacher thinking of introducing the fight for rights into their curriculum. Aaron Wilkes has over 20 years’ experience working in schools as a teacher, department, and faculty leader. He also works with the PGCE History trainees at the University of Warwick. In addition to the classroom, Aaron is also one of the leading history authors in school publishing and his KS3 History series, now in its fourth edition and published by Oxford University Press, is currently the best-selling KS3 History textbook series/online package in the UK. Aaron is also Series Editor/co-author of OUP’s NEW KS3 Depth Studies: The British Empire, African Kingdoms, Fight for Rights, and Migration Nation. He is the Series Editor/co-author of OUP’s KS4 History textbooks which match the AQA and Edexcel GCSE History specification and is involved with the BBC as an Educational Consultant for their Bitesize and Teach series. Aaron tweets at @WilkesHistory Alex Fairlamb is a Senior Leader in charge of Teaching and Learning and CPD, based in the North East. She is a Specialist Leader in Education and an Evidence Lead in Education. Alex is a proud member of the Historical Association Secondary Committee and the Schools North East Steering Board. Alex is a History teacher and former Lead Practitioner of History and Teaching and Learning, with a strong commitment to ensuring that curriculums are diverse. Her research interests centre on diversity within the curriculum, evidence informed teaching and learning practice within schools, and social justice in education. Alex tweets at @lamb_heart_tea Becky Carter is a secondary history teacher of 10 years in Nottingham. She has experience of being a mentor for PGCE and SCITT students, and is a current ECT mentor. Becky has spent time working to diversify the school's KS3 curriculum, with a particular focus on LGBTQ+ history alongside running the school's LGBTQ+ student group. She is a long standing member of the History Teacher Book Club and is keen to include historians' work in lessons. Becky tweets at @missrcarter89 Dan Lyndon-Cohen has 30 years’ experience in the History Classroom as a teacher, HoD and Lead Practitioner. He is Director of the Schools History Project; author of 8 books on multicultural/migration histories; an education consultant for BBC Bitesize, National Portrait Gallery, Imperial War Museum and Colonial Countryside Project; and Exam constructor and Specification writer for OCR. Dan tweets at @danlyndon Josh Preye Garry is a Head of Department at Park View School where he champions Decolonization and Anti-Racism within the Curriculum which has led to him receiving a National Diversity Award. He is currently studying an MSc at Oxford University where he is focusing on Teaching & Learning. Josh is a GCSE Examiner and has also written textbooks. His consultancy specialises in Black British History and pre-colonial African Kingdoms. Josh tweets at @JoshPreyeGarry The publisher would also like to thank Dr Stella Moss (Royal Holloway, University of London), Vicky Iglikowski-Broad (Principal Records Specialist: Diverse Histories at The National Archives), Beckie Rutherford (University of Warwick), Tony Stevens (Disability Rights UK), Dr Ayshah Johnston (Black Cultural Archives), Arthur Torrington (Windrush Foundation), Rosa Legeno-Bell (Diverse History UK) and Dr Justin Be...
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    45 mins
  • 34. Migration: Enrich your KS3 History curriculum

    34. Migration: Enrich your KS3 History curriculum
    Oct 11 2023
    Aaron Wilkes Shalina Patel Liberty Melly Tia Shah Aaron Wilkes and Shalina Patel discuss how effective teaching of migration can enrich your Key Stage 3 curriculum, with insights from Liberty Melly and Tia Shah from the learning team at the Migration Museum. What do students gain from studying migration at KS3? How has historical scholarship on migration changed in recent years? What is the impact of new research on how we should teach the topic? Aaron, Shalina, Liberty and Tia offer advice to teachers thinking of introducing migration into their curriculum. Aaron Wilkes has over 20 years’ experience working in schools as a teacher, department, and faculty leader. He also works with the PGCE History trainees at the University of Warwick. In addition to the classroom, Aaron is also one of the leading history authors in school publishing and his KS3 History series, now in its fourth edition and published by Oxford University Press, is currently the best-selling KS3 History textbook series/online package in the UK. Aaron is also Series Editor/co-author of OUP’s NEW KS3 Depth Studies: The British Empire, African Kingdoms, Fight for Rights, and Migration Nation. He is the Series Editor/co-author of OUP’s KS4 History textbooks which match the AQA and Edexcel GCSE History specification and is involved with the BBC as an Educational Consultant for their Bitesize and Teach series. Aaron tweets at @WilkesHistory Shalina Patel has over 13 years of experience in the classroom and is former Head of History and currently Head of Teaching and Learning and leader of the ITT programme at Claremont High School Academy in London. In 2018 Shalina won the Silver Pearson Teaching Award for Outstanding Teacher of the Year in a Secondary School and in 2021 won the GG2 Inspire Award. She has been featured in publications such as the Guardian and The Times and on programmes like Radio 4’s Three Pounds in my Pocket, BBC Woman’s Hour and BBC’s Teach Me A Lesson podcast. Shalina showcases her passion for hidden histories via @thehistorycorridor Instagram account and her first book will be published in 2023/4. Shalina tweets at @Ms_PatelHistory Liberty Melly is the Senior Learning Manager at the Migration Museum, where she leads the ever-expanding learning programme which to date has engaged over 27,000 students across the UK and internationally. Since joining the team, she has grown the first seeds of a learning programme by developing relationships and delivering projects with teachers, teacher training bodies, multi academy trusts, exam boards and publishers. This is against a backdrop of growing urgency for more and better teaching and learning about migration and intersecting themes. Liberty has coordinated a national schools competition, provided training for hundreds of teachers and championed migration learning and teaching at all levels. Liberty completed her undergraduate degree in History from the University of Nottingham, and went on to complete a MA in Museums, Galleries and Contemporary Cultures. Liberty can be contacted here. Tia Shah is the Learning Officer at the Migration Museum, focusing on the day-to-day delivery of the Migration Museum’s learning programme and engaging young people with the themes of migration. Tia completed a MA in Early Modern History from Durham University and has been working in heritage education for 6 years. Tia is particularly passionate about embedding young people’s voices into museums and heritage sites and diversifying the stories that are told there. As well as working at the Migration Museum, Tia’s other freelance work centres around getting young people into the heritage industry and helping them build life skills. In her spare time Tia is a Contributing Writer for Girl Museum, helping to share untold stories about girls throughout history. Further reading and support: · 83% of schools surveyed report having made substantial changes to their Key Stage 3 curriculum...
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    28 mins
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