Is This For Credits?: Recent Episodes
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Join season 2 hosts and English teachers, Pere Durie and Luke McFarlane, as they discuss pūrākau from around the motu and explore how we can weave this into our classroom practice.
Season 2 of this NZATE podcast is engineered by Angad Vraich.
Tīhema Baker recounts a defining moment that lead to him beginning his first novel at 17 years old. From comic book heroes to Aotearoa Atua - this episode explores how the right feedback at the right time can ignite our tauira.
A brief rundown of the great things happening at the National Library with the Services For Schools guru, Tracey Greenwood. A low key chat filtered with strategies to help capture the disengaged teen reader.
We're back, baby! New season, new hosts, and we look forward to some brand new interviews.
Join Pere Durie and Luke McFarlane as we launch Season 2 of "Is this FOR Credits?" This season will have a distinct focus on mātauranga Māori, local curriculum, and ways to bring those aspects to life in our English classrooms.
In this episode, they yarn about the curriculum refresh, engagement, and mihi out to their three listeners in Bluff, Kaikohe, and Kaitaia...you know who you are!
Hattie Salmon shares three of her poems and talks about how her poetry has evolved since its lively start in secondary school.
Author of more than 30 books, teacher for more than 30 years in the English classroom, Proud Ngāti Porou Tania Roxborogh speaks to us about her Masters/Doctorate research exploring the relationship between mātauranga Māori and Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream.
Streaming is a hot topic in education at the moment. Chris and Philly explore its dimensions and bring Chris Abercrombie from PPTA into the conversation.
Claudia shares her personal and professional journey and the urgency she feels that we face some difficult questions about the direction our teaching of Secondary English has drifted in recent years. Her doctoral research brought to our attention that the study of complex literary texts is diminishing in New Zealand education, and is doing so disproportionately quickly in lower-decile schools.
Robert Sullivan's poetry carries with it a sense of mischief as he traverses some of the most urgent and intimate topics in Aotearoa over the last couple of centuries. We discuss his poetry, his philosophy and his perspective on education in New Zealand.
Khadro Mohamed speaks to us about losing, and then regaining, her Somali language and how her culture and language influence her poetry. She shares her experiences growing up in a New Zealand where she was frequently complimented on her Kiwi accent and we examine what to do when someone doesn't "understand" a poem.
As a salve to the challenges of starting a new term Dr Glenn Colquhoun talks to us about his GP practice where he specialises in work with rangitahi. He reads his poem "One That Got Away - for Jack" and he talks about the role of the teacher in schools with reverence and respect. Listen to this, teachers, and be reminded of the good you do.
Airana Ngarewa epitomises the best New Zealand has to offer to education and writing. Philly first met him while he was completing his Masters in Educational Leadership via Ako Mātātupu, and then over recent months his writing has started showing up in some high-profile places. This interview was a great pleasure for us both - It's great to be in conversation with a young person who is so obviously going places.
Jack reads some of his flash fiction and talks with candour and depth about his time at school with undiagnosed ADHD, his fan fiction, making Sherlock more gay, his writing processes - not to mention his work as a rugby referee.
Both having recently taken over the position of Head of Department in new schools, Chris and Philly discuss their experiences. This is a chance to look 'under the lid' of two very different departments of English. The highs and lows will resonate with anyone working in English teaching in Aotearoa, but Philly and Chris also relay the extent to which the journey is also one of personal growth.
Hera Lindsay Bird joins Philly at her place for a drink and we thought - "Let's record a podcast!". In spite of her modesty, we gained a great insight into what drives Hera and her poetry.
Starling Magazine has just published it's 13th edition and it is going from strength to strength. We talk with co-editor Louise Wallace about the magazine's inception, evolution, and its editorial process. Then Louise shares some of her own poems for our scrutiny and great pleasure.
This week's episode is an investigation into some of the long-established conventions of Secondary English. Dr Welby Ings joins us and challenges some of our presumptions about how knowing and learning actually works. Philly talks to a student, Charlie, about what English is to them.
Philly approaches her text studies theme first; engaging her students with the big ideas and emotions evoked, whereas Chris has a penchant for starting with a detailed exploration of style, form or genre and seeing what ideas emerge from there. Caitlin tells us all what NZATE is currently up to and outlines a range of professional development opportunities coming your way. Owen Marshall is our guest creator; Pip explores his authorial process and it's fair to say we were all thoroughly charmed by the humility and grace of this literary great.
It's a new year and our podcast kicks things off looking into the recent flourishing of LGBTQIA+ literature in Aotearoa. Chris Tse reads two of his poems for us and we discuss his work co-editing "Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LBGTQIA+ writers from Aotearoa". We then speak to Chelsea from the new Alphabet Book Club: a store and community designed specifically for LBGTQIA+ New Zealanders and our allies.
Chris and Philly introduce themselves, Ruth Richardson tells us about Read NZ and Liz Breslin reads her poem "recaptcha / all I ask is"