Best Classroompractice Podcasts (2025)

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Navigating Mental Health Issues in Schools: Strategies for Teachers and Students with Prof. Jess Deighton 35:06

13d ago35:06

35:06

In this episode, Professor Jess Deighton, a leading children’s mental health expert, discusses the growing mental health challenges facing young people today and what this means for educators and schools. We dive into how student mental health impacts learning outcomes, the unique challenges teachers encounter in the classroom, and the critical imp…

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Exploring the Intersection of Psychology and Education: Insights for Teachers 31:21

20d ago31:21

31:21

In this episode, Dr Andrew Holliman, Associate Professor at UCL’s Institute of Education and chair of the BPS's Psychology of Education Section discusses the upcoming annual conference focused on psychological well-being in education, highlighting its inclusive, supportive atmosphere for teachers, researchers, and students. Andy shares insights on …

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Emotionally Based School Avoidance: A Personal Story 48:33

1M ago48:33

48:33

In this deeply personal episode, I’m joined by Harriet Ennis, a psychology teacher from York and this year's winner of the British Psychological Society's Pre-Tertiary Education Psychology Teacher of the Year (PEPTOTY). Harriet reached out to share her personal experience of Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA), previously referred to as schoo…

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Learning from Failure: The Biological Case for Embracing Mistakes 35:21

2M ago35:21

35:21

In this episode of Psychology in the Classroom, Dr. Lauren Margulieux helps explore why failure isn't just a learning opportunity—but a biologically powerful one. Drawing on neuroscience, Lauren explains how our brains react to failure, the role of neurotransmitters like epinephrine and acetylcholine, and why moderate emotional discomfort can actua…

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The Perils of Perfectionism: Understanding Its Impact on Mental Health in Education 42:17

3M ago42:17

42:17

In this episode we explores the impact of perfectionism on exam anxiety, particularly among neurodivergent individuals. Dr. Tracey Donachie, a lecturer in sports and exercise psychology, discusses the components and prevalence of perfectionism, highlighting its psychological and behavioral effects. Maciej Matejko, from the Re-Star Project, shares h…

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First do no harm: Universal Mental Health Interventions in Schools 28:53

4M ago28:53

28:53

Summary In this episode Dr. Carolina Guzman Holst is a NIHR Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, discusses her recent paper titled Scoping review: potential harm from school-based group mental health interventions. Where the authors ‘examine three areas: the types of potential harms and adverse events reported in school-based mental health …

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The Process of Learning is Uncomfortable 36:23

6M ago36:23

36:23

This month Dr Katy Burgess, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Cardiff University, talks about her research into students’ learning - what they do and how effective they think this is - this is useful for us, as teachers, to understand how, what we are teaching them in school about learning and revision, is being interpreted and used by students. We …

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Peer Support for Neurodivergent pupils 37:38

8M ago37:38

37:38

The NEurodivergent peer Support Toolkit (NEST) is a set of free resources for staff in mainstream secondary schools who wish to facilitate peer support for neurodivergent young people. The toolkit was co-created by researchers at the University of Edinburgh, neurodivergent young people and a neurodiverse group of adults who work with neurodivergent…

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RE-STAR - From Emotional Dysfunction to Emotional Burden 44:51

10M ago44:51

44:51

This is the 7th podcast from the RE-STAR team and Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke and Dr Georgia Pavlopoulou share the findings from work package one. This episode explores how the RE-STAR team has collected qualitative data through innovative methods that really allow the voices of young people with ADHD and Autism to be heard. They also share the f…

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Improving Mental Fitness in Schools with Vi Gandhi 19:04

10M ago19:04

19:04

In this week’s episode Purvi (Vi) Gandhi shares her knowledge about implementing effective and evidence based strategies to improve mental health or mental fitness in schools. Vi has recently published a book 'A little guide for teachers: Student Mental Health' with lots of ideas of how teachers can support the mental health and fitness of the youn…

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Reframing Mindfulness for Teachers 41:33

11M ago41:33

41:33

On World Mental Health day 2024 Psychology in the Classroom discusses Mindfulness. We eschew the ‘Crystals and Muesli’ version and reframe it to ask how to be more attentive, calmer, more grounded, more aware, more responsive, less anxious. Willem Kuyken and Maggie Farrar join me to discuss, how we can make moments in our day to be mindful and how …

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What have we learned about failure? 34:35

1y ago34:35

34:35

In this final summary interview with Prof. Dr. Suzanne Narciss, we review all our learning about failure over the last few months. There is much we can do to encourage our students to learn from errors, including interactive formative assessment and feedback strategies, prompting reflection and adaptive strategies for dealing with errors and using …

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What do parents communicate about failure? 31:01

1y ago31:01

31:01

More than one in 10 children ‘almost always’ or ‘often’ fear failure. But where do they learn this from? This fear can often pass from parents to children. Parental communication about failures and setbacks plays a critical role in shaping a child's perception of mistakes. In her research Dr Elizabeth Peterson found that: Clear action plans without…

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The Impact of Teacher Failure Mindsets 40:07

1y ago40:07

40:07

Today's discussion focuses on our perceptions, as teachers, of failure. When as a teacher we watch our lessons back on film where do we see failure and how do we respond? Reflecting on our own relationship with failure could be important in informing our practice in the classroom. For example our personal relationship with failure will inform how w…

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Teachers v Pupils: differing views of failure 40:03

1y ago40:03

40:03

How students and teachers navigate and prioritise different learning processes after encountering impasses during learning can be complex. Recognising that failure moments can be multifaceted, today’s episode explores how classroom discourse reveals varied valued learning processes, such as problem-solving, preventing future issues, and developing …

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Errors and Alienation 32:47

1y ago32:47

32:47

How errors are handled in the classroom is an important aspect of teaching and has a variety of consequences for students' own dealing with errors, their learning and their performance. In classrooms with a negative error climate, students are more likely to experience fear of making mistakes and feel alienated from their teachers. Teachers' unsupp…

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Creating a Positive Error Learning Orientation 30:44

1y ago30:44

30:44

In order to learn from errors it is important that pupils regulate their emotions. The emotions that they feel when they make an error is underpinned by their Error Learning Orientation - whether they see errors as positive and an opportunity to learn or as a negative thing that brings shame. In this interview Rahel Schmid discusses her paper about…

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Motivating Students to Learn from Errors 36:48

1y ago36:48

36:48

This week find out how you can encourage students to persist with learning and engage with metacognitive strategies when they make mistakes. Dr Maria Tulis talks about her experiments that aimed to find a causal link between beliefs about errors, how these beliefs maintain motivation and how students then adapt their actions to effectively analyse …

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Learning from Errors 36:49

1y ago36:49

36:49

This is the 3rd episode in the failure series of podcasts this term. We are staying with the theme of feedback to errors this week. Professor Janet Metcalfe discusses her paper on learning from errors and in particular how one teacher uses an interactive approach, encouraging students to work out why they made an error rather than simply correcting…

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Using Smileys in Error Feedback 41:03

1y ago41:03

41:03

When students receive error feedback it usually causes a negative emotional response, this in turn can impact learning. If we could somehow elicit a positive emotional response to error feedback, research suggests that this will increase motivation, enhance the desire to continue on a learning task and promote the use of efficient metacognitive str…

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Introduction to failure 37:53

1y ago37:53

37:53

Failure - a word that is taboo in education and yet is part and parcel of the learning experience. As teachers, dealing with errors in the classroom can fundamentally change so much of the learning experience. The beliefs teachers and students hold about failure and errors changes behaviour and can cause students to persist and grow or to avoid ris…

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Final Exam Preparation with Jonny Wainman 27:10

1+ y ago27:10

27:10

Exam season is now in full swing and we are all really trying to encourage students to move away from the comfortable passive revision strategies such as reading and highlighting notes and get them to engage in more retrieval practice with flashcards and mindmaps. This week I talk to psychology teacher, Jonny Wainman about how he teaches his studen…

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Positive Education with Michelle Tytherleigh 28:45

1+ y ago28:45

28:45

My guest this week is Dr Michelle Tytherleigh author of Positive Education at all Levels: Learning to Flourish, and we are talking about how we can use positive psychology in the classroom to students to flourish. Martin Seligman asked two questions: In two words or less what do you want for your children? In two words or less what do most schools …

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Supporting Teacher Wellbeing with Dr Charl Emmerson 35:26

1+ y ago35:26

35:26

Dr Charl Emmerson is an Organisational Psychologist who has worked in schools and researches wellbeing in schools. In this interview we are discussing teacher wellbeing at both an individual level and an organisational level. WIth top tips of teachers and leadership on creating a supportive culture. In addition we discuss how SEND impacts teacher w…

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ADHD: Supporting Students in the classroom with Prof. David Daley 44:06

1+ y ago44:06

44:06

This week I am joined by Professor David Daley from Nottingham Trent University to talk about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. ADHD is something that most teachers will come across at some point and managing it well in the classroom can make a huge difference to outcomes for young people with ADHD. In this episode we cover the main psychol…

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Classroompractice Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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Psychology in the Classroom

Lucinda Powell

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Navigating Mental Health Issues in Schools: Strategies for Teachers and Students with Prof. Jess Deighton 35:06

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Exploring the Intersection of Psychology and Education: Insights for Teachers 31:21

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Emotionally Based School Avoidance: A Personal Story 48:33

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Learning from Failure: The Biological Case for Embracing Mistakes 35:21

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The Perils of Perfectionism: Understanding Its Impact on Mental Health in Education 42:17

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First do no harm: Universal Mental Health Interventions in Schools 28:53

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The Process of Learning is Uncomfortable 36:23

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Peer Support for Neurodivergent pupils 37:38

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RE-STAR - From Emotional Dysfunction to Emotional Burden 44:51

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Improving Mental Fitness in Schools with Vi Gandhi 19:04

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Reframing Mindfulness for Teachers 41:33

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What have we learned about failure? 34:35

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What do parents communicate about failure? 31:01

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The Impact of Teacher Failure Mindsets 40:07

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Teachers v Pupils: differing views of failure 40:03

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Errors and Alienation 32:47

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Creating a Positive Error Learning Orientation 30:44

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Motivating Students to Learn from Errors 36:48

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Learning from Errors 36:49

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Using Smileys in Error Feedback 41:03

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Introduction to failure 37:53

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Final Exam Preparation with Jonny Wainman 27:10

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Positive Education with Michelle Tytherleigh 28:45

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Supporting Teacher Wellbeing with Dr Charl Emmerson 35:26

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ADHD: Supporting Students in the classroom with Prof. David Daley 44:06

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