ABSTRACT
Under neoliberalism, teacher’s professional learning is increasingly left to the individual teacher and their workplace to source and fund. Where once there was systemic support for continued improvement, now schools and teachers have to squeeze their budgets and take calculated risks on the quality of commercial PL providers, or create low-cost opportunities to better facilitate sharing of practice among schools and teachers.
While blogs and social media groups have allowed practice-sharing to extend far beyond local school communities, podcasting is a significantly under-used medium in Australian education. Like blogs and curation sites, podcasting offers a vehicle for reflection and curation in the preparation of materials, but also provides a vehicle for direct access to individuals and authentic voices that cannot be replicated in writing.
When it comes to practice-sharing, podcasting also offers a platform for collaborative reflection then can be shared with others, and provide insights that may help other teachers better navigate their own professional learning journey.
Having produced the Teachers’ Education Review podcast since July 2013, this vignette will provide an outline of how to use podcasts for personal and professional growth, as well as suggestions on how to get started.
