Atomi Brainwaves Podcast

Our teaching expert Su walks us through her history of leading various departments in different schools and countries, and the wisdom she gathered along the way in terms of handling managing a team of teachers, dealing with senior school executives, and balancing department leadership with teaching responsibilities.

Author of over 20 books and leading voice in education, Guy Claxton breaks down his Learning Power Approach from the research and theory underpinning, and the history of its development, to its practical applications and success stories in the classroom.

In this edition of the Mailbag, where Su and I take on questions sent to us by our teacher listeners, we tackle how to handle having your own son in your class, approaching new government guidelines on student attendance, and what the process of subject and content selection looks like here at Atomi

Principal of the rapidly growing St Phillips Christian College In NSW, Darren Cox joins us to discuss the challenges involved in establishing culture and maintaining student and teacher wellbeing amidst the constant change at an emerging school, as well as predicting how the new normal might look for schools in terms of online learning.

Our teacher expert Su joins us to tackle the ever-relevant issue of challenging behaviour in the classroom - the external and internal factors causing it, and the best and worst strategies for trying to manage it in a positive and constructive manner.