Category: Podcast

  • Sharing Is Caring

    Sharing Is Caring

    Peter is one of those special people who is a finisher. Dissatisfied with the resources available to him in his trainee year, Peter set about creating his own resources. Not only that, he shared them through his web site, sciencedoctor.school.blog. His one problem with all this #sharingiscaring? The endless requests for the answers. If you…

  • Become a YouTuber

    Become a YouTuber

    Rachel tells us what she’s learned about getting yourself online. Empowering stuff and some great advice from Rachel about how to make a resource that will be of lasting value in your classroom.

  • The Doctor Will Teach You Now

    The Doctor Will Teach You Now

    Jo is a career-changer from a medical background who kindly agreed to join us to chat about her experience of teaching physics.

  • Uncertainties

    Uncertainties

    Friend of the podcast Dave Farmer returns to talk about a subject to strike fear into any physics teacher’s heart: uncertainty! We peel away some layers of complexity to reveal… more layers of complexity! Having worked with a lot of exam boards’ A-level specs over the last few years, Dave recommends reading the mark schemes…

  • A Gimmicky Demo Fan

    A Gimmicky Demo Fan

    Wall-to-wall gimmicky demos on this week’s podcast as we welcome John Hudson. Although we call them gimmicky, nothing could be farther from the truth: John introduces us to some great experiments and demos that are crammed full of physics to inspire and talk about.

  • Bits and Bobs

    Bits and Bobs

    What can we usefully get students doing at home to explore their physics and what (cheap) kit might we be able to provide them with come September?

  • KEEP Teaching

    KEEP Teaching

    We are delighted to talk to Mark Whalley, IOP Education Manager, former headteacher, and of course, a physics teacher. Robin caught up with him to chat about KEEP Teaching, a project funded by the EEF, run by the IOP, and evaluated by UCL that is looking to find out what will keep early-career physics teachers…

  • Teacher in Residence

    Teacher in Residence

    The “new normal” has once again shrunk the globe, as Thomas and Robin reach out to Alberta, Canada to talk to the inspirational Laura Pankratz of the Perimeter Institute. Just as well we talked to her when we did because apparently we’ve discovered a black hole next door…

  • Assessment and CPAC

    Assessment and CPAC

    The “new normal” is just another way of saying “weird” as far as we’re concerned. In this episode, we range around the emergency assessment routines that OFQUAL have put into place, reflecting on the humanity and fairness that they have managed to salvage from what is a stressful and potentially difficult end to our GCSE…

  • @MissNeutrino, a Physics NQT

    @MissNeutrino, a Physics NQT

    Alexia has a Physics degree from Imperial (which made Robin happy) and a PGCE from the London Institute of Education (which made Thomas happy). She has many strings to her bow. In addition to being a physics teacher, Alexia is a LaTeX guru, has a fascinaton with neutrinos and tweets as @MissNeutrino. Alexia tells us…