Australian teaching, examined from the classroom outward.
Teachers Education Review follows Australian schooling from the staffroom outward. Across interviews, recurring reflections, and education news, it links practical classroom concerns with research on coaching, leadership, student agency, data use, inclusion, and school culture.
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Teachers Education Review is a teacher-facing Australian education podcast with a long memory and a practical bent. It takes the profession seriously. Across its archive, school improvement is treated as something that happens through coaching conversations, middle leadership, better use of data, student agency, inclusive practice, and clearer thinking about policy. The show’s centre is not celebrity or controversy. It is the working life of educators trying to make decisions inside busy schools. Cameron Malcher’s introductions often locate episodes in the rhythm of the Australian school year, with references to term starts, book week, sick leave, family illness, influenza, COVID disruption, and the ordinary strain around professional commitments. That grounding matters. It gives the research interviews a lived context rather than leaving them floating above classrooms. Regular segments such as Colber’s Corner and Ideology and Education broaden the format beyond a single interview slot. Stephen Colber brings recurring attention to classroom practice and professional reflection, while Tom Marnie appears in excerpts considering ideological tensions in schooling and parent-teacher interviews. Feature conversations range from Liz Benson on middle leadership to Jim Knight on instructional coaching, Dr. Selina Fisk on data storytelling, Lee Crockett on student agency, and Peter DeWitt on collective leader efficacy. The show is especially interested in the space between formal authority and classroom influence. Middle leadership, for example, is framed as a way to keep a foot in teaching while shaping the conditions around learning. That gives the series a useful texture for teachers who are curious about leadership but not necessarily chasing principalship. Its register is collegial, careful, and profession-minded. It acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners and repeatedly situates production on the lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. The later announcement that the podcast would close after 11 years adds a human, reflective note, shaped by Cameron Malcher’s recovery after a mild stroke and the need to reduce workload. Even in farewell, the focus turns back to the wider Australian education podcasting sector and the teachers, researchers, authors, contributors, and listeners who sustained the conversation. Teachers Education Review stands as both a resource and a record: an archive of Australian educators thinking aloud about how schools change.
Made for: Teachers, school leaders, instructional coaches, and education researchers who want grounded professional discussion with an Australian lens. It especially suits educators interested in how research and policy meet daily school practice.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the teacher-centred bridge between research, policy, practice, and the lived pace of Australian schools. The 11-year archive also documents the growth of local education podcasting from inside the profession.
Teachers' Education Review is an Australian podcast that explores issues and practices in education from the perspective of classroom teachers.
A staff-room question becomes a research conversation before the photocopier has finished sulking.
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A grounded case for staying close to students while helping shape the conditions around teaching.
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This episode discusses teacher reflections, ideological tensions in teaching, and fostering student agency, with a focus on Australian education.
This episode discusses parent-teacher interviews and collective leader efficacy with author Peter DeWitt.
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