Episodios

  • A New School Year

    A New School Year
    Feb 9 2019
    In this episode Renee gets pretty excited about crime thrillers, decorating her room and a big stationery gift - whereas Chris appears to pour cold water on it all. We also introduced the news that we've won an Education Hub Bright Spots award, and we share what we plan to do with all the money - plus there are a couple of phone messages that on better thoughts might actually have been better left un-hacked.
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    8 m
  • Keep a Lid On It

    Keep a Lid On It
    Feb 16 2019
    Chris and Renee's boss, Gena Bagley is introduced. Her occasional section of the podcast "Keep a Lid On It" starts off with an honest analysis of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in the classroom. Renee 'phones it in', tells us a little more about the micro-credentials project, waxes lyrical about driving over a mountain pass with Rosemary Hipkins and lays down the gauntlet once again. This time in relation to the teaching of Romeo and Juliet to Year 10.
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    17 m
  • The Pedal Hits the Metal

    The Pedal Hits the Metal
    Feb 23 2019
    Happily Renee had time to give Chris a hand defining our 5 badge types. We've been working hard on this scheme for classifying our credential types so we're really happy to be able to share them with you. Bagley's back to finish putting a lid on extrinsic motivation and Chris gets pretty excited with what his Maths colleague Christina can do with a fraction credential.
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    21 m
  • Why Micro-credentials and Rosemary

    Why Micro-credentials and Rosemary
    Mar 2 2019
    To justify upending the long-established assessment schemes developed in our school by hundreds of teachers for thousands of students, we must have a pretty clear idea of what kind of difference we will make. Renee phones in 5 of her top benefits of micro-credentialing in the Secondary School classroom. Chris and Renee chat about these a little and the rest of this week's episode is dedicated to 'chewing the fat' with Rosemary Hipkins, Lead Researcher from the New Zealand Council for Educational Research who is helping us investigate what impact our project will have on the teachers and learners in our school.
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    22 m
  • Money Laundering, Voice and Whipped Cream

    Money Laundering, Voice and Whipped Cream
    Mar 9 2019
    An exciting moment is captured in this episode where some of our micro-credential team are finalising their first badges. Christina Gott from our Maths Department is without doubt going to win the prize for the most creative naming of her badge on numbers between zero and one, while Emily the Head of Learning Area for the Arts shares how deceptively simple the assessment of Voice can be in Drama. Chris captures a moment of insight from students and parents while on tour to the South Island Triathlon Championships and parties and laughter prevail.
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    19 m
  • Revise and Repeat

    Revise and Repeat
    Mar 16 2019
    Christina's Money Laundering credential goes in for an overhaul, Renee's class claps for Lear, the idea of agency begins to take a concrete shape, and Chris' team cycles a speedway.
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    11 m
  • Werk it, Teach!

    Werk it, Teach!
    Mar 23 2019
    Teacher workload is not a topic we feel comfortable talking about. We know what a privileged position we hold in society, and of course there are all those holidays - but if we're on to such a good thing, why is it so hard to attract good young graduates into teaching - and why do more than 40% of us leave in our first 5 years? Sticking with the 'teachers are worth it' theme, we play an excerpt from Oliver's speech about how every one of us is special (a link to the video of the whole speech is in the show notes) and we ask a few students whether they think teachers should get a pay rise.
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    21 m
  • Shakespeare and Altruism

    Shakespeare and Altruism
    Mar 30 2019
    It's mid-week and Renee is starting to hit the wall after her 24 hour+ support for our students in our local Relay for Life fund raising effort last weekend. We discuss why we choose to position Shakespearian Drama as central texts in many of our English programmes. We discover some of Chris' trigger-words; including "real world" and "relevant". Our episode this week is much longer than usual, because our guest Liz Breslin was simply too interesting to cut short. She explained some of the scope of how our Students in the Community volunteering programme works and then we went on to explore how we might create credentials for this kind of altruism. Grab a cup of tea and your favourite headphones and click play...
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    39 m