Teachers Themselves
"Teachers Themselves" is a new, engaging podcast designed specifically for educators in Ireland.
Whether you're a seasoned teacher looking to enhance your teaching practices, or a new educator seeking guidance and inspiration, "Teachers Themselves" provides a platform for professional growth and fosters a community of educators who are keen to learn. Join us as we explore the art and science of teaching, inspire each other, and shape the future of education, one episode at a time.
Hosted by DWESC Director, Ultan Mac Mathúna, and featuring insightful guest speakers, all educators themselves, this podcast offers conversational episodes focused on sharing teaching experiences, exploring shared values in education, and fostering a community of passionate educators.
Tune in to "Teachers Themselves" and unlock your full potential as an educator. Together, let's empower ourselves and our students for the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow.
“No written word, no spoken plea, can teach our youth what they should be, nor all the books on all the shelves, it’s what the teachers are themselves.” John Wooden
Teachers Themselves is a DWESC original, produced and created by Dublin West Education Support Centre and produced by Zita Robinson.
Teachers Themselves
Fiona Forman's Top Tips for CPD
Fiona's wise words in this bite-size bonus episode, offer invaluable guidance for educators eager to enhance their professional development and introduce wellness-focused approaches to their teaching methodologies.
Tune in for Fiona's top 3 CPD tips for the academic year ahead; Positive Psychology and Wellbeing, Trauma Informed Education and AI.
You can book some of her CPD recommendations here:
Organising ‘Well-Being Week’ in Primary School
The Resilient Teacher: Approaches from Positive Psychology
Developing Children’s Resilience: Approaches from Positive Psychology
Leading an Attachment Aware School
Unleash the Power of AI in Primary Education
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Teachers Themselves is a DWEC original, produced and created by Dublin West Education Centre produced by Zita Robinson.
Welcome to the Teachers Themselves podcast. I'm your host, alton MacMahuna. This podcast is brought to you by Dublin West Education Centre. We're located in the grounds of TUD and Tallah, serving and supporting the school communities of West Dublin and beyond. In this podcast, I'll be speaking with some of the very talented, dedicated people who bring you your CPD Facilitators with a background in passion for education in Ireland. Educators whose commitment to students and colleagues shines through in their delivery of courses for Dublin West Ed Centre.
Speaker 1:As part of each episode, I ask our guests for their three top tips for the year ahead. Now, here at Dublin West, we know how busy you all are. Maybe you don't have the time right now to listen to the whole episode, so we've made these crucial top tips available to you in bite-size format. Top tips featured in this quick bonus episode are courtesy of Fiona Foreman from her conversation with us here in Dublin West on the importance of wellbeing, resilience and positive psychology. Here's Fiona. So teachers are getting ready for the new school year. What three top tips would you give teachers for CPD? So I'm trying to think of my year ahead. I'm a teacher who's going to be intentional this year. What three top tips for CPD would you give?
Speaker 2:Well, we've probably got a guest that I'm going to say positive psychology and wellbeing. I'm doing a lot of work with yourselves in the autumn term. I've heard of different topics so, and again it'd be great to hear about wellbeing. There are so many different topics there to you know to perfect down and get into the nitty gritty. So, for example, I'm doing one about resilience, I'm doing head to office of wellbeing week and resilience and teachers, self compassion, children. So you know, I would say, have a look at wellbeing as a topic and just tip your toe in and see what you know, what you think, and I can start to genophate it to introduce some of these ideas. I'm also very interested, probably in the sense of, you know, trauma informed education, which is kind of the other side of wellbeing, which is, you know, dealing with children who have had difficulties. So that's really coming into education at the moment, isn't it so? Trauma informed.
Speaker 1:And it's amazing. It doesn't take long looking at the news to see how a trauma of any kind in childhood follows you right through your adult life. And the more you were saying about early intervention, the sooner you deal with it the better. And you can't deal with it with the way the teachers are in a position to give a small bit ahead.
Speaker 2:It does tie in very well with wellbeing. The wellbeing is again very related to the nervous system, a thriving nervous system where you feel calm, you feel connected, as opposed to being in the fight freeze. So you know the trauma responses fight, fight freeze. And I think back to my early days in education where children maybe were in that fight, fight freeze, but I didn't know it, I wasn't aware. And of course, their behavior you know their behavior is very, very linked to that. And of course, the last topic is intervention, those topics there. But I suppose that the AI coming into teaching the task was GPT. Yep, I have to dip my toe in there again. I haven't. I don't know anything about it. So I'll be putting my hand up myself, hopefully joining some webinars, because I think it's going to possibly be transformative for education?
Speaker 1:Yeah, most certainly yeah. And again, this series of podcasts. We've interviewed Shannon Ahern, who was one of the first out of the traps when it came to AI and education, and she's delivered for us back last year and she'd been delivering again this year. I should say so they are three excellent top tips, excellent top tips. If you find these top tips useful, let us know, share with colleagues and don't forget to set aside time to listen to the whole episode. Well worth a listen and never longer than 40 minutes. Tune in next week for another episode of Teachers themselves. Don't forget to like and subscribe, leave us a review and share it with colleagues and friends. Your feedback informs the show. You can follow us across our social media channels Instagram, twitter, linkedin. Facebook Links are in the show notes. If you have any thoughts on today's episode or suggestions for future topics, email Zeta here at zeerobbinson at dwecie. Oh, and don't forget to book that CPD dwecie. Thanks again. Have a great week. Thanks a lot. Thanks everyone.
Speaker 2:Thanks for watching. I'll see you in the next episode. Thanks to the original produced and created by Dublin West Education Center.
