Easter Holiday Special: Blogs, Tweets and Stories

It's the middle of the Easter holidays, and Emma and Tom enjoyed recording the last holiday special for Christmas so much that they've decided to do another one! This time there's a bit more of an educational theme, but a change to the format: Emma and Tom both bring a blog post, a tweet and a story about a teacher into the studio, and neither of them is letting the other have any advance warning of the content... Emma has an uplifting blog post, a tweet that's a perfect summation of an accountability culture gone mad, and a story of pupil protest, quietly aided and abetted by subversive teachers. Tom plays true to form by starting off firmly on the rails with a blog post about dealing with work overload, and then veers off into the unexpected with a tweet about how to tell if someone is truly powerful, and a news story about an idea for a lesson that can only be described as insane. Emma hangs on for what she describes as a 'white-knuckle ride' of content, musing on whether Tom's about to get them both sacked - so a normal day at the podcast office, then! If you'd like to take a look at the content that inspired today's episode (and many thanks to all the people responsible for writing it!), please do take a look at the links below: Tom Sherrington: Overloaded? Out of Control? Press the Reset Button. Martin Robinson: Cultural Mobility Ed Morrish: Power Annie Black: Horror Stamper Fake Ambitious Assistant Head: Differentiation The Telegraph: Crazy Lesson Idea Zapataforever: Protests   Please do rate, review and tell your friends. You can find us on twitter at @ethayer_cmu and @thomasbreeze. Our department at Cardiff Met tweets at @ITECardiffMet. See you next time!   ---------- This episode was recorded at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed campus on 8th April 2019