Don't scrap Curriculum for Wales, says Finola from @impactwales.bsky.social - give teachers more detail and support to make it work. Tune in tomorrow for our full Senedd Elections roundup episode.

Plenty of the party spokespeople in our Senedd Elections Special series name-checked more professional learning for teachers as a promise. Here's @garethdjevans.bsky.social saying we need to get real about supporting teachers properly. Tune in on Wednesday for more!

Here's Finola Wilson from @impactwales.bsky.social on the hard decisions our next Welsh Government will need to make in order to make sure what money we have gets to where it's needed. Tune in on Wednesday for more!

Here's @garethdjevans.bsky.social on what he hopes the next Welsh Government will do to support teachers implementing the Curriculum for Wales. Tune in next Wednesday for more round-up as the election approaches!

Stand by for the round-up episode of our Senedd Elections Special series next Wednesday. @thomasbreeze.bsky.social is joined in the studio by @garethdjevans.bsky.social and Finola Wilson to chew over what we've found out from the six parties.

Thank you for the post - it's a good start, although if we are being picky that's not my name or a link to the article 😂

Phew - after all that political content, it's time to relax for the Easter break with our traditional 'light' episode. By the magic of pre-recording, we welcome back Emma this week, and @thomasbreeze.bsky.social is off on one again...

Very enjoyable Thursday morning recording a podcast episode with Dr Viv John in the studio and Dr @ehmacgregor.bsky.social (+ Walnut the dog) in Oxford. Plenty of critique for the National Plans for Music Education of both England and Wales!

Tomorrow, I'll be joining @ehmacgregor.bsky.social & Viv John to present our work comparing the Welsh & English National Plans for Music Education. Cardiff Met colleagues please come along if you can! Article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Are we nearly there yet? 25 years of initial teacher education policy in Wales Initial teacher education (ITE) policy in Wales over the past 25 years has, in many ways, reflected wider global concerns around the need to produce sufficient high-quality teachers to ensure that pup...

🔸 Open Access - Wales Journal of Education 26.2 🔸

'Are we nearly there yet? 25 years of initial teacher education policy in Wales'

by Trevor Mutton and @thomasbreeze.bsky.social

Read: journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/article/...

Be ready to be shocked and offended at university, students told Guidance has been published by the Office for Students on new free speech rules coming into force this year.

I've mainly been shocking and offending journal peer reviewers this year rather than students. Can we warn them too?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Very much looking forward to presenting two papers at #RiME2025 this Thursday and Friday! I'll be drawing on my postdoctoral research @somervillecollege.bsky.social and some recent work with the Group for Research in Music Education at Cardiff Metropolitan @thomasbreeze.bsky.social

Holistic, aspirational professional standards as a boundary object between communities of practice for pre-service teachers This article reports on a research project which seeks to understand how pre-service teachers and their school-based ‘mentors’ use a holistic, developmental set of professional standards as a tool ...

Always nice to get something out of the door: article about student teacher transitions between placements published in the Oxford Review of Education with colleagues Emma O'Dubhchair & Sioned Dafydd, and it's open access so free for anyone to read. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Teacher recruitment and retention is a hot topic at the moment, so it was a timely visit by Professor David Egan to our studio to discuss his recent report into the issues. Tune in on Friday! Here's a taster, and you can read the report here: issuu.com/cardiffmet/d...

This week we welcomed some school colleagues to our studio to create multimedia resources to support school-based teacher educators in making student teachers’ observations of lessons more focused and purposeful. Huge thanks to them, and the team from C.Met Sport Broadcast & Media for their help!

I don’t think so… but I wouldn’t want to call it either way. I was thinking when I read that more about the fact that the difficulty of doing this stuff seems to have come as a surprise (to some) despite this warning from history!

Are we nearly there yet? 25 years of initial teacher education policy in Wales Initial teacher education (ITE) policy in Wales over the past 25 years has, in many ways, reflected wider global concerns around the need to produce sufficient high-quality teachers to ensure that pup...

Nice to see this article (open access and available in Welsh!) out today, lead-authored by Professor Trevor Mutton from @UniofOxford who kindly asked me to help out. It was a great learning experience. journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/article/...

Congratulations to Dr @VivJohn6 who did a fab research seminar today on the experiences of popular musicians learning to be teachers. Thanks for inviting me along for the ride, Dr Viv!

Read in one sitting - thanks, @N8Holder! Ranges widely and is clear, concise, interesting and subject-specific - all my favourite things!

It’s PGCE Research Bites recording time again… two days in @MetBroadcast’s very shiny studio to bring you some of the best student teacher research from @ITEcardiffmet in both English and Welsh!

Massive congratulations to Dr @VivJohn6 who's just had an article published in Research Studies in Music Education. And it's open access so go and have a read!

Huge thanks to @lucy_crehan, @garethdjevans and Matt Maughan from @BassalegSchool1 for their contribution to today’s panel discussion for the PGCE Secondary programme. We’ll put it out on @TalkTeachingPod soon for everyone to enjoy!

What a day! @Fenn5Lisa and I had a great time, but more importantly we learned a lot, and hope our student teachers did too. Huge thanks to our panellists @Pymble1984 @prycewilliams and Marc Lewis from @YsgolPlasmawr and to Peter and Adrian from @MetBroadcast!

We’re off! Here’s what I’m seeing this morning…

A new first today - our PGCE Equity & Diversity conference, live online to nearly 400 student teachers, is a co-production between @MetBroadcast and @ITEcardiffmet - our schools of Education & Social Policy and Sport & Health Sciences collaborating on 4 hours of live broadcasting

Why we must all bang the drum for music in schools

In Edinburgh to present at #seraconf23 - looking forward to hearing some interesting things from fellow education people here! @SERA_Conference

Had a first go in the new studio today, recording a segment for @talkteachingpod with @CameronGStewart - thanks as ever to @MetBroadcast for the support!

Calling all @cardiffmet PGCE students! Time to tune in to the first of our video broadcasts about your clinical practice placements. Check your emails for details and resources. Hope you enjoy the change of pace and format - see you at 9!