Podcasts

The SecEd Podcast interviews secondary education experts and focuses on best practice, policy and research in the classroom and across the school, offering practical advice, insights and examples from professionals working in and with UK secondary schools. Each episode features a panel of teachers, school leaders and other experts and tackles topics relevant to secondary teaching and learning and wider education practice.

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The SecEd Podcast: Best Education Podcast 2021

The SecEd Podcast – which recently celebrated its one year anniversary – has been awarded the title of Best Education Podcast 2021.

The SecEd Podcast: The Secrets to Quality First Teaching

What does effective teaching look like in the classroom? This episode of The SecEd Podcast dissects the key ingredients of quality first teaching, offering tips & ideas, advice & guidance from three practising and experienced teachers.

The SecEd Podcast: Inclusion & SEND during Covid-19

This episode focuses on issues of SEND, inclusion and diversity in the school environment in the context of the Covid pandemic, our students returning following national lockdown, and how we might build back better.

The SecEd Podcast: Teaching students who use English as an additional language (EAL)

This episode looks at how we can effectively teach and support students who use English as an additional language in the classroom.

The SecEd Podcast: Vulnerable Learners & Covid-19

As schools reopen fully from March 8, what should our priorities be going forward? This episode of The SecEd Podcast focuses on how we can overcome the barriers to education and wellbeing facing our most vulnerable students during Covid-19

The SecEd Podcast: Effective Middle Leadership

This episode looks at the skills, traits and approaches that effective middle leaders employ in the secondary school environment, offering a range of practical advice, tips and reflections

The SecEd Podcast: Effective teaching for SEN

In this episode, we consider what effective teaching for SEN students looks like in the mainstream secondary school classroom, offering practical advice for teachers and school leaders on pedagogy, interventions, the graduated approach among many other areas

The SecEd Podcast: Teaching metacognition

The latest episode of The SecEd Podcast offers practical tips and ideas about how teachers can make use of metacognition strategies to support students' learning, helping them to become effective independent learners

The SecEd Podcast: Covid-19 & Schools

This episode of The SecEd Podcast looks at Covid-19, including how schools have coped this term, our biggest successes, biggest challenges, lessons learned, and our planning for the spring and summer terms 2021.

The SecEd Podcast: Effective Pupil Premium practice in schools

This episode of The SecEd Podcast looks at effective Pupil Premium practice and offers practical discussion, advice and ideas for how schools might set about closing the attainment gap.

The SecEd Podcast: Relationships, Sex & Health Education in Schools

This episode of The SecEd Podcast offers practical advice, guidance and tips for schools delivering the relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) curriculum, which has been a statutory requirement since September.

The SecEd Podcast: Reducing teacher workload in schools

In this episode, our experts discuss workload and work/life balance in schools, looking at the major threats to teachers' wellbeing and practical solutions for schools

The SecEd Podcast: Managing Pupil Behaviour in Schools

This episode of The SecEd Podcast offers practical tips for effective whole-school and classroom behaviour management

The SecEd Podcast: Supporting SEN & Looked After Children

The latest episode of The SecEd Podcast focuses on the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown for SEN and looked after students, and how schools and teachers can best support these vulnerable children this term and beyond

The SecEd Podcast: Back to School – Remote education & edtech

This is the final episode in our four-part Back to School Series offering advice to schools. This time we focus on effective remote education, edtech and the technological legacy of Covid-19