Toucan Teach - Episode 4 - Teacher Essentials

Toucan Teach - Episode 5 - Lesson Observations

This week we cover the emotional rollercoaster of being observed.  We talk about the stages we go through from planning to using our feedback and our feelings on how subjective an observation can be.  We discuss the impact on our teaching of the observations we have had in the past.

Toucan Teach - Episode 4 - Teacher Essentials

In this episode we talk about the things that get us through every day.  From coffee to laughter, stationery to tears and being hangry.  All the things any teacher needs to make it through the term.

Toucan Teach Episode 3 - Time Management

In this week's episode we discuss all of the ways we try to manage our time wisely.  We discuss teacher planners, free periods, helpful and essential stationery and procrastination.  We think of ways that we waste time and the times we resent the workload we have.

Episode 2 - Subject Knowledge

In this episode we discuss our specialisms and how they affect our teaching and attitudes. We talk about our favourite texts for teaching and ones we love but would never teach.

Toucan Teach Episode 1 - Introductions

A teaching podcast by teachers, for teachers. No sugar coating. The honest truth about what secondary school teaching is like in England.