Tiny Voice Talks Education

In this episode Toria talks to Jacqueline about nursery rhymes, their history and their importance for early learning today. She also talks about the importance of phonological awareness and how this is different to phonics.
As a teacher and researcher, Jacqueline talks about how her experience and research findings led her to develop and publish a book of rhymes for active learning today.

Jacqueline is a mum, teacher, researcher, author and member of the British Psychological Society. Jacqueline’s social initiative led to the publication of Wizzy’s Words, a book of rhymes for sharing with infants from birth (and before) and promoting holistic language and child development.

To get in touch with Jacqueline email her at [email protected] or visit www.wizzyswords.co.uk
A note from Jacqueline following the episode
Discerning phonological awareness from phonics is quite an enigma. Years ago, onset and rime (as discussed) would have been evident in classrooms and not just in the early years – with its links to spelling patterns

The syllabic and intra-syllabic boundaries are key – once a child has heard sounds, words, phrases, sentences i.e., language, they can say it then read it then write it (although my focus in on interactive sharing of rhymes via a book, I arranged for an audiobook of the book to be produced which is narrated – with a view to exposure to spoken word first)

Perhaps the biggest caveat to synthetic phonics is its deference to phonemes and graphemes at the expense of onset and rime... the child exposed naturally to onset and rime from birth and before school of course also has the vocabulary it derives from and is ready for phonics - as we know therein lies the need for research

Please feel free to contact Jacqueline with any questions with respect to this or other elements of their chat if it’s helpful.

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In this mini pod, Dr Sue Roffey talks about how important it is to notice. Share how you are noticing on Twitter and use the hashtags #Teacher5ADay and #TinyVoiceTalks.
Sue FRSA FBPsS is a psychologist, academic, author, activist and speaker. She holds posts as Honorary Associate Professor at University College, London, and Adjunct Fellow at the Western Sydney University, and is also affiliated to the Wellbeing Institute at Cambridge University. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools.

Sue has spent much of the last twenty years in Australia, where she founded the Wellbeing Australia network and developed the Aboriginal Girls Circle – a program for Indigenous young women, based in the Circle Solutions principles and pedagogy, which is proving to be an effective intervention for developing healthy relationships, resilience and student responsibility. Sue is now back in the UK where she is focused on the Growing Great Schools projects to address whole child, whole school wellbeing – including the wellbeing of teachers.

She is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a past member of the Editorial Board of Educational and Child Psychology, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

Follow Sue on Twitter: @SueRoffey.

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In this episode, Toria talks to John Walker the director and co-author (with Susan Case and David Philpot) of Sounds-Write all about phonics and its place in the classroom. John believes that good phonics spirals - recycling the information that has already been taught through reading, writing and spelling.

John has been a qualified teacher, university lecturer and teacher trainer for over thirty years, teaching English language and literature in many different countries and settings. He is a graduate of the University of Sussex and holds master degrees from the Universities of Sussex and Warwick. He is qualified in the teaching of English as a foreign language and holds an advanced certificate in English language teaching from the University of Edinburgh.

He trains teaching practitioners in Sounds-Write and promotes the Sounds-Write programme in schools and other educational institutions across the world. In addition, he was an associate lecturer for the Open University, teaching on Discovering English and Children’s Literature, in addition to several early years courses.

John is an enthusiastic edu-blogger, who posts regularly on all aspects of literacy teaching at his site theliteracyblog.com.
Useful links
Sounds-write
John Walker - Twitter
Diane's book that John mentioned - Early Reading Instruction

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In this episode, Pie returns to the podcast to chat with Toria about poetic writing and how to teach this effectively. Pie is an excellent poet – but he is also an excellent teacher of poetry - reading it and writing it.
Pie is a fount of imaginative teaching ideas that work to help children express themselves in poetry and/or prose and shows teachers how to create the bridge between the two. He created the Talk for Writing approach to learning, which is widely used in UK primary schools.
During the episode Pie shares his approaches to teaching poetic writing, how he uses poetry models (which can be found in his book Catalysts) as starting points and even creates some poems with Toria.

Previous episodes with Pie are:
https://tinyvoicetalks.buzzsprout.com/1267127/10075609-talk-for-reading-with-pie-corbett
https://tinyvoicetalks.buzzsprout.com/1267127/6068362-storytelling-with-pie-corbett

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In this episode Toria talks to Lizana about 'Coaching and Mentoring'. Here is a message from Lizana - Developing others is always close to my heart, as it is clear from research that the more confident and developed teachers are in their fields, the greater their impact is on pupils and learners. However, teacher development happens in many different ways, and often we start off by developing others in a co-constructive way, working with teacher educators and mentors. The mentoring role cannot be underestimated, and the Carter Review (2015) not only highlighted its importance, but a need for the role to be given enough time. In many working papers produced by CollectiveEd, the mentor’s role is highlighted as key in the teacher trainee’s initial teacher education, and this is echoed in the Early Careers Framework as part of the DfE’s (2019) retention strategy to support future teachers, and to retain them. However, mentors are volunteers, and they give back to the profession in so many different ways, they support others develop others, and often, when working with mentors, they often are not recognised for the work they do, and how much they impact on the wider education landscape. NQTs often share that a good mentor made all the difference to their learning journey. However, this role is often not acknowledged for its importance and mentors are often in a position where they have very little time to support others. Mentor development often focus on the logistics, and there is a real need to take that further into the learning of mentors and their understanding of the learning of others. It is also important to understand the needs of mentors, and how we can support them to be the best they can be for those they are supporting. In addition, mentors, also need to understand how the mentoring relationship evolves, and moves from support to a more independent relationship where questioning becomes more helpful in the development of the mentee, to the point where the mentor can make the transition to coaching, with the consent of the coachee, to help develop better learning conversations. Coaching and mentoring are described by Connor and Pokora (2017) as learning conversations, and it is important to think how we can develop mentor’s understanding of the learning journey of their mentee, and to support them well to enable them to facilitate these learning conversations and journeys effectively.

Bio:

Lizana Oberholzer is a Senior Lecturer in teacher education at the University of Wolverhampton. She is the BERA TED SIG Convenor in England, BAMEed Trustee, CMI Fellow, Chartered College of Teaching Founding Fellow, Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, CollectiveED Fellow, Vice Chair of the UCET CPD Forum, and MAT Director.

@LO_EduforAll

Useful websites:

CollectivED | Research | Leeds Beckett University

Growth Coaching

BASIC Coaching (basic-coaching.com)

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