Episodes
Thursday Oct 26, 2023
Thursday Oct 26, 2023
Episode 1 – Ollie Bray in conversation with Dr Ben Mardell
In this episode Ollie chats to Ben Mardell, a teacher and researcher with over 40 years of experience. Ben is the former principal investigator at Project Zero, a research organisation at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Ben was also project director of ‘Pedagogy of Play’ a collaboration with the LEGO Foundation and the International School of Billund, exploring how play can be a central part in children’s learning in school.
Music by Finn McGuire - 6th Year student at St Aidan’s High School, Wishaw
Episode links:
Project Zero Pedagogy of Play resources:
https://pz.harvard.edu/projects/pedagogy-of-play
The Pedagogy Podcast Spotify Playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3OlQjzxsYdhXkYg8W7F7d1?si=dc4fd84d97d649e4
The Pedagogy Podcast – Core Pedagogical Considerations Graphic:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SY5Z4lXiluxNXhNkgk0UCukrKXNzw3iX?usp=sharing
Monday Sep 04, 2023
Monday Sep 04, 2023
Education Scotland believes an empowered, connected, self-improving education system is vital to achieve excellence and equity for all children and young people in Scotland. In this latest podcast series, the School Empowerment Steering Group has launched a number of episodes focusing on what empowerment looks like for those working across the education system, including insight from school leaders, teachers and local authority leads.
Previous episodes:
1 https://EducationScotland.podbean.com/e/empowerment-an-introduction/
2 https://EducationScotland.podbean.com/e/empowerment-school-leaders/
3 https://EducationScotland.podbean.com/e/empowerment-scotish-government/
4 https://EducationScotland.podbean.com/e/empowerment-local-authorities-and-regional-improvement-collaboratives/
Monday Sep 04, 2023
Monday Sep 04, 2023
Education Scotland believes an empowered, connected, self-improving education system is vital to achieve excellence and equity for all children and young people in Scotland. In this latest podcast series, the School Empowerment Steering Group has launched a number of episodes focusing on what empowerment looks like for those working across the education system, including insight from school leaders, teachers and local authority leads.
Previous episodes:
1 https://EducationScotland.podbean.com/e/empowerment-an-introduction/
2 https://EducationScotland.podbean.com/e/empowerment-school-leaders/
3 https://EducationScotland.podbean.com/e/empowerment-scotish-government/
Friday Sep 01, 2023
Friday Sep 01, 2023
Education Scotland believes an empowered, connected, self-improving education system is vital to achieve excellence and equity for all children and young people in Scotland. In this latest podcast series, the School Empowerment Steering Group has launched a number of episodes focusing on what empowerment looks like for those working across the education system, including insight from school leaders, teachers and local authority leads.
Previous episodes:
1 https://EducationScotland.podbean.com/e/empowerment-an-introduction/
2 https://EducationScotland.podbean.com/e/empowerment-school-leaders/
Thursday Aug 24, 2023
Thursday Aug 24, 2023
Education Scotland believes an empowered, connected, self-improving education system is vital to achieve excellence and equity for all children and young people in Scotland. In this latest podcast series, the School Empowerment Steering Group has launched a number of episodes focusing on what empowerment looks like for those working across the education system, including insight from school leaders, teachers and local authority leads.
Previous episode:
1 https://EducationScotland.podbean.com/e/empowerment-an-introduction/
Thursday Aug 17, 2023
Thursday Aug 17, 2023
Education Scotland believes an empowered, connected, self-improving education system is vital to achieve excellence and equity for all children and young people in Scotland. In this latest podcast series, the School Empowerment Steering Group has launched a number of episodes focusing on what empowerment looks like for those working across the education system, including insight from school leaders, teachers and local authority leads.
Monday Aug 07, 2023
Monday Aug 07, 2023
Join Gillian Hamilton, Interim Chief Executive of Education Scotland in a new series of podcasts in which she hopes to open up conversations about education. Whether you are a parent, pupil or education practitioner – she will explore a range of different topics over the series which she hopes you will enjoy hearing about.
This podcast features her son Stephen and Klaus Mayer, Senior education officer: DYW, talking about their career paths.
Tuesday Jun 27, 2023
Tuesday Jun 27, 2023
ducation Scotland fervently believes children should be seen and heard, and the incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is an excellent opportunity to further the rights and well-being of children in Scotland. In this series, Maxine Jolly sits down with guest speakers from across Education Scotland to better understand why children’s human rights matter and how UNCRC has influenced our work in supporting quality and improvement in learning and teaching.
Friday Jun 23, 2023
Friday Jun 23, 2023
Join Gillian Hamilton, Interim Chief Executive of Education Scotland in a new series of podcasts in which she hopes to open up conversations about education. Whether you are a parent, pupil or education practitioner – she will explore a range of different topics over the series which she hopes you will enjoy hearing about.
This podcast features Ollie Bray Strategic Director at Education Scotland discussing the hot topic of Artificial Intelligence.
Tuesday Jun 20, 2023
Tuesday Jun 20, 2023
Education Scotland fervently believes children should be seen and heard, and the incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is an excellent opportunity to further the rights and well-being of children in Scotland. In this series, Maxine Jolly sits down with guest speakers from across Education Scotland to better understand why children’s human rights matter and how UNCRC has influenced our work in supporting quality and improvement in learning and teaching.
Education Scotland
Education Scotland is the national body for supporting quality and improvement of learning and teaching in Scottish education.
We are driven by the shared ambitions of supporting the development and wellbeing of all those who work in education and ensuring positive experiences and outcomes for all learners.