Podcast appearances and mentions of polly wells

This podcast complements the University’s Teaching Matters blog, and invites students and staff to engage in topical conversations. The first three episodes accompany the Teaching Matters mini-series on social responsibility and sustainability. In these episodes, University of Edinburgh staff and students debate how sustainability and environmental concerns are being tackled in today’s university. In this episode, students start to discuss emotionally-charged issues around climate change, asking if they are facing climate optimism or climate fatalism in the classroom. Masters student Polly Wells is our guest host, who welcomes fellow students Ryan Gilmour, Ellie Ashton and Emily Bankert to the conversation.

This podcast complements the University’s Teaching Matters blog, and invites students and staff to engage in topical conversations. The first three episodes accompany the Teaching Matters mini-series on social responsibility and sustainability. In these episodes, University of Edinburgh staff and students debate how sustainability and environmental concerns are being tackled in today’s university. In this second episode, we continue the conversations from Episode 1 on climate change, which explore if students are facing climate optimism or climate fatalism in the classroom. In this episode, our guest host, masters student Polly Wells, asks her fellow students, Ryan Gilmour, Ellie Ashton and Emily Bankert, about the roles of teachers and students in tackling climate change through teaching and learning.

In this third episode, MSc Environmental Sustainability student, Polly Wells, returns as our guest host to continue this conversation with three University of Edinburgh staff members: Velda McCune, Emily Creamer and Hannah Chalmers. Polly asks her guests what inspired them to teach about climate change issues and their most effective ways of teaching these concerns, as well as inviting debate about the merits and challenges of interdisciplinary teaching and learning. 

In this third episode, MSc Environmental Sustainability student, Polly Wells, returns as our guest host to continue this conversation with three University of Edinburgh staff members: Velda McCune, Emily Creamer and Hannah Chalmers. Polly asks her guests what inspired them to teach about climate change issues and their most effective ways of teaching these concerns, as well as inviting debate about the merits and challenges of interdisciplinary teaching and learning.

This podcast complements the University’s Teaching Matters blog, and invites students and staff to engage in topical conversations. The first three episodes accompany the Teaching Matters mini-series on social responsibility and sustainability. In these episodes, University of Edinburgh staff and students debate how sustainability and environmental concerns are being tackled in today’s university. In this second episode, we continue the conversations from Episode 1 on climate change, which explore if students are facing climate optimism or climate fatalism in the classroom. In this episode, our guest host, masters student Polly Wells, asks her fellow students, Ryan Gilmour, Ellie Ashton and Emily Bankert, about the roles of teachers and students in tackling climate change through teaching and learning.

This podcast complements the University’s Teaching Matters blog, and invites students and staff to engage in topical conversations. The first three episodes accompany the Teaching Matters mini-series on social responsibility and sustainability. In these episodes, University of Edinburgh staff and students debate how sustainability and environmental concerns are being tackled in today’s university. In this episode, students start to discuss emotionally-charged issues around climate change, asking if they are facing climate optimism or climate fatalism in the classroom. Masters student Polly Wells is our guest host, who welcomes fellow students Ryan Gilmour, Ellie Ashton and Emily Bankert to the conversation.

Today, we are talking about teen anxiety, something that I like to feature with students every school year at this time. For the past two weeks, I have partnered with our school counselor, Andrew Palmer, in a presentation for Year9 (8th grade) students. It's been a fantastic couple of weeks of in-depth conversations with our students on an issue that is all too real for some of them. Today's podcast features our first guest interview, our school counselor, Andrew Palmer. As we did with our Year9 student presentation, Mr. Palmer will talk first about anxiety, what it is, and why schools need to help students recognize it. After the interview, I will feature 12 fiction and nonfiction titles that will help teens learn to recognize and manage their own anxiety.   FIND ME AT: MrsReaderPants blog FaceBook Twitter Pinterest Goodreads   TITLES DISCUSSED IN THIS PODCAST: Boys Don't Knit (in Public) by Tom Easton Ten Things I Can See From Here by Carrie Mac Nice Girls Endure by Christina Struyk-Bonn Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini I Don't Want to Be Crazy by Samantha Shutz Freaking Out: Real-Life Stories About Anxiety by Polly Wells; illustrated by Peter Mitchell The Anxiety Survival Guide for Teens by Jennifer Shannon and Doug Shannon Lily & Dunkin by Donna Gephart Frazzled by Booki Vivat 101 Ways to Conquer Teen Anxiety by Thomas McDonagh and Jon Patrick Hatcher The Huge Bag of Worries by Virginia Ironside   MUSIC CREDIT: "Let It Be Christmas" by Nicolai Heidlas. Licensed under Creative Commons, 2016.