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Phonemic Awareness Activities Nov 14, 2021

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In this episode, Holly joins Bron to chat about phonemic awareness activities in the early years. Check out the blog here!

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Teachers' Favourite Brain Break Activities! Nov 11, 2021

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This is Teacher Voicemail, where we give teachers a voice every week to reach thousands of other teachers and strengthen our community!

This week we asked teachers, what is your favourite brain break activity? This episode is hosted by Holly, who is our resident brain breaks expert! Check out her webinar to pick up even more ideas for getting your students up, moving and refreshed for more learning!

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Squid Game(s): Tips for Teachers Nov 09, 2021

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Squid Game is a series streaming on Netflix that is not only breaking the ‘most-streamed series ever’ record, but it’s also filtering down to some of our youngest children in our primary schools. We were recently made aware of school children as young as 6 being exposed to this Netflix show. If you haven’t yet watched Squid Game, it’s certainly not been designed for young people’s eyes, that’s for sure! However, they are seeing it or being exposed to aspects of it through Netflix, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and even Roblox. We recently asked Trent from the Cyber Safety Project to provide us with some hints and tips on how teachers can deal with this emerging situation in our primary schools.

In this episode, listen as Bron and Jill chat about the show and the main tips that Trent shared with us. Check out the blog here!

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Climate Change Education: Supporting Children and Inspiring Hope Nov 06, 2021

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We're halfway through COP26 and here at Teach Starter we've been talking a lot about climate change. To wrap up this short series, Michael and Bron spoke with psychologists Susie Burke and Ann Sanson about the best ways to approach climate change conversations with young students.

Thanks for coming on this journey with us. It's over to you now, teachers. If you have a story that you'd like to share from your classroom, send us a voice message on Instagram or Facebook, or emails us any time to podcast@teachstarter.com.

To access resources and information referenced in this episode, please visit our blog, Climate Change Education: Where to Start.

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Early Years Sustainability Education in Finland: Agent Adventure Nov 04, 2021

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This is Teacher Voicemail, where we give teachers a voice every week to reach thousands of other teachers and strengthen our community!

This week on Teacher Voicemail, we're bringing you a sneaky outtake from one of our interviews from "Climate Change Education: Collective Action Starts in Schools". Finnish early years teacher Viveka tells us all about a sustainability unit she is running in her class for the next couple of weeks.

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How to Talk to Anxious Students About Sensitive Issues Nov 01, 2021

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This week we're offering some practical tips to help support students with anxiety. We also look into some ways to spot if a child isn't coping or is feeling anxious.

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Climate Change Education: Collective Action Starts in Schools Oct 30, 2021

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The 26th UN Climate Change Conference starts later today in Glasgow, where world leaders are meeting to discuss climate change and the future. What we can definitely expect though is large demonstrations around the world, particularly in Glasgow, and a lot of pressure on world leaders to do things like stepping up ambitions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate change education is also something that is discussed by this body, so we could see something about that on the side, but building back better after the pandemic, and taking up those opportunities to invest in clean energy and low emissions industries, is going to be on the agenda.

So while we’re hearing about this a lot in the media, and maybe talking about it in our staff rooms and with families, we wanted to take a bit of time to hear from some teachers about how and where climate change comes into their classrooms.

Listen as Michael talks to five teachers about how they're implementing climate change education in their classrooms internationally.

To access resources and information referenced in this episode, please visit our blog, Climate Change Education: Where to Start.

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When Students Ask About Climate Change Oct 28, 2021

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This is Teacher Voicemail, where we give teachers a voice every week to reach thousands of other teachers and strengthen our community!

This week we asked a question relevant to the COP26 about to start in Glasgow: Has a student asked you about climate change, and how did you respond?

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Earth Day's Climate Literacy Campaign - Rachel Weisbrot Oct 26, 2021

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Ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference, the COP 26, beginning in Glasgow next week, producer Michael sat down to chat with Rachel Wiesbrot, from Earthday.org. Rachel’s role as education and communication manager sees her supporting the growth of EarthDay.org’s Climate Literacy campaign, which aims to ignite an education revolution to save the planet.

Thank you for joining us! We’ll be delving deeper into the current state of climate change education, globally, in our special mini-series: Climate Change Education. Episode one is called “Collective Actions Starts in Schools”, and will be available from Sunday. Subscribe to or Follow Teach Starter on your preferred podcast app so you don’t miss it!

Teachers! Tell global leaders at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to commit to compulsory, assessed climate and environmental education with a strong civic engagement component at COP26 this November.

https://www.earthday.org/campaign/climate-environmental-literacy/

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The Road to COP26 Oct 24, 2021

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Over the coming weeks, the Teach Starter podcast will be bringing you up to date information environmental education, and where to start. This is our community, and wherever you are in the world, we’d love to hear from you. What questions do your students have about climate change? Have you covered this in your classroom? Let us know!

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