Jan 28, 2025
12 | Managing Complex Behaviour
Hub Chats
’Hub Chats’ is created by the Macquarie University Teachers’ Learning Hub, at Macquarie University in Sydney.
Episodes are released monthly.
Welcome to Hub Chats, the podcast where we bring academic research directly to teachers in a casual and approachable way. Join us as we chat with expert academics from Macquarie University’s School of Education to unpack the latest findings and practical advice that can enhance your teaching practice.
Our goal is to translate complex research into actionable insights, helping you create engaging and effective learning experiences for your students. Tune in for valuable discussions that bridge the gap between academia and the classroom!
Episodes
Episodes
Jan 28, 2025
Jan 28, 2025
27 min
In this episode, we learn from renowned international expert Associate Professor Kathleen Tait about the form and function of potential communicative acts and find out how to identify them. Kathleen shares strategies and advice for how to support communication in the classroom for students with complex communication needs.
Jan 27, 2025
Jan 27, 2025
35 min
In this episode of our Inclusive Education series, we focus on neurodiversity and neurodivergent students. Dr Poulomee Datta, Lecturer in Inclusive Education, and Dr Anne McMaugh, Senior Lecturer in Educational Psychology and Child Development, chat about how to support neurodivergent students in the school context and discuss strategies for fostering a neuro-inclusive classroom.
Jan 24, 2025
Jan 24, 2025
19 min
Our Inclusive Education series continues: in this episode, we chat about sensory processing. Dr Diana Tan explains the eight senses, and shares strategies to support students with sensory processing differences in the classroom.
Jan 22, 2025
Jan 22, 2025
47 min
Our Inclusive Education series begins with a chat with Inclusive Education lecturer, Dr Iliana Skrebneva and Trudy Smith from NextSense, who discuss how teachers can support deaf and hard of hearing students and foster an inclusive classroom where all students can thrive.
Nov 28, 2024
Nov 28, 2024
47 min
In this episode, Dr Brian Ballsun-Stanton helps us understand how AI works, and chats about how we can best interact with frontier model LLMs (Large Language Models) to be effective users of AI technologies. We chat about the need to explicitly teach AI literacy to students, and what that looks like.
Here is the poster of the top 10 tips and techniques that Dr Brian Ballsun-Stanton and Dr Jodie Torrington have developed (CC-BY):
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‘Hub Chats’ supports the Macquarie University Teachers' Learning Hub. We create high-quality professional learning microcredentials to support educators and enhance teaching across Australia. Our microcredentials are either 10-hours or 25-hours in duration, depending on the course.
Macquarie School of Education is a New South Wales Education Standards Authority (NESA) recognised PD provider.
Your host
‘Hub Chats’ is hosted by me, Dr Jodie Torrington. I am the project manager of Macquarie University Teachers' Learning Hub, and I also research and teach in the School of Education at Macquarie University. I'm an experienced primary school teacher, and I have taught across Australia and NZ. I am also an Honorary Fellow of the Teachers' Guild of NSW.
I am passionate about making sure that teachers know about new directions and advancements being made in educational research and providing busy teachers with this information in the easiest, and most useful way possible!
We hope this podcast is helpful to you and your teaching journey.
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