Podcast Episodes

Reframing Mindfulness for Teachers

Season 13 Episode 1

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, m…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

What have we learned about failure?

Season 12 Episode 16

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 erro…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

What do parents communicate about failure?

Season 12 Episode 15

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 s…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

The Impact of Teacher Failure Mindsets

Season 12 Episode 14

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 relati…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Teachers v Pupils: differing views of failure

Season 12 Episode 13

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'…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Errors and Alienation

Season 12 Episode 12

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…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Creating a Positive Error Learning Orientation

Season 12 Episode 11

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 the…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Motivating Students to Learn from Errors

Season 12 Episode 10

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 …

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Learning from Errors

Season 12 Episode 9

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 error…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Using Smileys in Error Feedback

Season 12 Episode 8

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, re…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago