I'm Mark Taylor and I interview educators from around the world so that I can enable you to support your children to live, learn and grow to their full potential
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198: 8billionideas with David Harkin
David is Founder and CEO of 8billionideas which exists to give every student the skills and belief to change the world. 8billionideas teaches children what they don’t learn in school by providing online live experiences and mentoring around the clock. 8billionideas helps children to lead a more fulfilling life and passion led career, and ultimately…
Read More197: Innovation School with David Miller
David Miller is Director of the Innovation School at Kelvinside Academy. David has had a long career in education and in 2008 was the recipient of the Guardian Award for UK Teacher of the Year. In the same year, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and made a National…
Read More196: Broad and balanced curriculum Q&A with Dr. Tony Eaude
Towards a balanced and broadly-based curriculum was the theme of the National Association for Primary Education conference in March 2021. The keynote lecture was given by Dr. Tony Eaude.
This is a follow up Q&A that I hosted and taken from a subsequent Facebook live event. NAPE has been a long term supporter of the Education on Fire podcast and I have been involved with the association for over 5 years, the last 18 months as vice chair. I thought this discussion was very insightful and wanted to give you the opportunity to hear it.
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I demonstrate how to listen to the Education on Fire podcast here on the website in this 3min step by step video. It includes how to view the show notes, subscribe and find all the related links mentioned in the podcast. Home
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Inside the Primary Music on Fire membership we have videos and resources to help you teach the basics of music and beginner instrumental lessons. To help you at this time we wanted to release our recorder workshop which contains: – Introduction to the instrument – Introduction to rhythm & pulse – Introduction to pitch –…
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