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Hub chats21 | Every teacher is a literacy teacherIn this episode, education expert Rose Garofano shares her passion for literacy and discusses how every teacher can help develop student literacy skills through the explicit teaching of vocabulary. Rose shares the impact of this practice on student empowerment, engagement, and motivation. Learn how your students can “level up” their literacy abilities!
2025-07-1036 minHub chats20 | Help! I'm teaching Society & Culture for the first timeIn this episode, we continue our focus on out-of-field teaching in high schools, this time about teaching Society and Culture. Kendra Bruseker, an experienced Society and Culture teacher, unpacks what you need to know, including how to support students’ Personal Interest Project (PIP).
Click here to enrol in our “Help! I’m teaching Society and Culture for the first time” professional learning microcredential.
2025-06-0636 minHub chats19 | Help! I’m teaching Legal Studies for the first timeIn this episode, we are talking about out-of-field teaching in high schools – and focusing specifically on teaching Legal Studies. Natasha Isbel, an ex-corporate lawyer and experienced Legal Studies teacher provides a wealth of advice for teachers who find themselves teaching Legal Studies for the first time.
2025-06-0533 minHub chats18 | Helping pre-service teachers think about AI in schoolsIn this episode, Dr. Renee Preval-Mann explores the critical intersection of AI and education with expert Dr. Jodie Torrington. Discover practical strategies for pre-service teachers to effectively integrate AI tools in the classroom while maintaining professional judgment. Learn how to harness AI as a powerful thinking partner without surrendering your pedagogical expertise and human creativity. Essential listening for educators navigating the rapidly evolving digital landscape in schools.
Here is the poster of the top 10 tips and techniques that Dr Brian Ballsun-Stanton and Dr Jodie Torrington have developed (CC-BY).
2025-05-1545 minHub chats17 | Supporting students with speech and language in the classroomIn this episode, MQ speech pathologist and lecturer Rebecca McNeil explains how speech pathologists can support individual students, small groups, and even work with whole classes to support communication differences and help establish safe and inclusive learning environments for all students.
Resources mentioned in the episode:
Communication milestones: https://www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au/Public/Public/Comm-swallow/Speech-development/Communication-milestones.aspx
LEANS program: https://salvesen-research.ed.ac.uk/leans
2025-05-1335 minHub chats16 | The difficult child? How to respond professionally to challenging behaviourIn this episode, visiting German scholar Dr. Andrea Tures discusses her new book “The difficult child? Responding professionally to challenging behaviour”. She encourages teachers to find out the reason for challenging behaviours, and highlights the importance of continual reflection and using appropriate strategies. Andrea discusses a 5-step model that can guide teachers in their response to perceived challenging behaviours, and promotes neuro-affirming practices in the classroom.
2025-04-3036 minHub chats15 | Creativity and Digital TechnologiesIn this episode, Bronwyn Tregenza discusses the intricacies of defining and implementing different types of creativity into the classroom. Explore the role teachers play in fostering both familiar and possibly unfamiliar forms of creativity in students, and how digital technologies can be integrated to support this.
2025-04-0944 minHub chats14 | Technology in the classroomTechnology in the Classroom
In this episode, Dr Jodie Torrington discusses the impact of students having individual digital devices in the classroom. Discover how access to teacher-made, differentiated videos supports self-paced learning, empowering students to take charge of their education. Learn how this approach can not only boost student motivation but also enhance teacher wellbeing.
Link to the paper discussed: Teacher-created video instruction in the elementary classroom—Its impact on students and teachers.
2025-03-1923 minHub chats13 | Multilingual Australian picture booksIn this episode, Associate Professor Alice Chik explores the power of multilingual picture books in education. Learn how translating and teaching from Australian picture books fosters a deeper understanding of language and culture while making learning more inclusive and impactful for children and families from non-English speaking backgrounds.
2025-03-0423 minHub chats12 | Managing Complex BehaviourIn this episode, we learn from renowned international expert Associate Professor Kathleen Tait about PBS – Positive Behaviour Support, the importance of explicitly teaching behaviour strategies to your students, and how effective understanding and communication can enhance the classroom environment and experience for everyone.
2025-01-2831 minHub chats11 | Complex Communication NeedsIn this episode, we learn from renowned international expert Associate Professor Kathleen Tait about the form and function of potential communicative acts and find out how to identify them. Kathleen shares strategies and advice for how to support communication in the classroom for students with complex communication needs.
2025-01-2827 minHub chats10 | Understanding neurodiversityIn this episode of our Inclusive Education series, we focus on neurodiversity and neurodivergent students. Dr Poulomee Datta, Lecturer in Inclusive Education, and Dr Anne McMaugh, Senior Lecturer in Educational Psychology and Child Development, chat about how to support neurodivergent students in the school context and discuss strategies for fostering a neuro-inclusive classroom.
2025-01-2735 minHub chats9 | Supporting students with sensory processing differencesOur Inclusive Education series continues: in this episode, we chat about sensory processing. Dr Diana Tan explains the eight senses, and shares strategies to support students with sensory processing differences in the classroom.
2025-01-2419 minHub chats8 | Supporting Deaf and Hard of Hearing students in the classroomOur Inclusive Education series begins with a chat with Inclusive Education lecturer, Dr Iliana Skrebneva and Trudy Smith from NextSense, who discuss how teachers can support deaf and hard of hearing students and foster an inclusive classroom where all students can thrive.
2025-01-2247 minHub chats7 | AI prompting: top hints and techniquesIn this episode, Dr Brian Ballsun-Stanton helps us understand how AI works, and chats about how we can best interact with frontier model LLMs (Large Language Models) to be effective users of AI technologies. We chat about the need to explicitly teach AI literacy to students, and what that looks like.
Here is the poster of the top 10 tips and techniques that Dr Brian Ballsun-Stanton and Dr Jodie Torrington have developed (CC-BY):
https://www.canva.com/design/DAGXvNc-Pp8/OYbTCRaTL57RIOf9KkOdpA/view?utm_content=DAGXvNc-Pp8&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=editor
2024-11-2847 minHub chats6 | Indigenous Inclusion in an AI worldIn this episode, Dr Tamika Worrell from the Department of Critical Indigenous Studies chats about considerations and implications for Indigenous inclusion and data sovereignty in a generative AI world.
Here is the resource Tamika recommends for evaluating Indigenous resources: https://aiatsis.gov.au/education/guide-evaluating-and-selecting-education-resources
2024-10-0829 minHub chats5 | Trauma informed practice in Early Childhood EducationIn this episode, Professor Fay Hadley, an Early Childhood academic at Macquarie University chats with Beth Macgregor, Director of Macgregor Consulting, about the importance of co-regulation and how to help young children feel safe, connected and regulated. As Beth says, “Connection and regulation changes lives”.
2024-09-1332 minHub chats4 | Early Childhood Education: Supporting families who have children with disabilitiesIn this episode, Dr Loraine Fordham, an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education chats with Dr Kathy Cologon, an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, to discuss barriers and enablers to families who have children with disabilities. They even discuss the No 1 most important thing for successful inclusion in Early Childhood Education...
2024-08-2836 min
Hub chats3 | Help! I'm teaching History for the first timeIn this episode, we are talking about out-of-field teaching in high schools – and focusing specifically on teaching History. Rochelle Wilkinson, an experienced History teacher and sessional academic at Macquarie University provides a wealth of advice for teachers who find themselves teaching History for the first time.
2024-08-1924 minHub chats2 | Teaching research ethics in Stage 6In this episode, we discuss teaching HSC research ethics in Stage 6 courses. Dr Natasha Todorov and Dr Stephanie Thompson, an expert Sydney secondary teacher, talk about the importance of the application of research ethics and how to make sure you are including this component in your classroom practice.
2024-08-1630 minHub chats1 | What does the new Generative AI framework mean for teachers?What does the Generative AI framework mean for teachers?
In this episode, we discuss the recent Australian framework for Generative Artificial Intelligence in Schools which was released late 2023. Professor Matt Bower unpacks the framework and its implication for teachers.
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