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Hub chats

’Hub Chats’ is created by the Macquarie University Teachers’ Learning Hub, at Macquarie University in Sydney. Episodes are released fortnightly.

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13 | Multilingual Australian picture books

Hub chats ·

2025/03/04

In this episode, Associate Professor Alice Chik explores the power of multilingual picture books in education. Learn how translating and teaching from Australian picture books fosters a deeper understanding of language and culture while making learning more inclusive and impactful for children and families from non-English speaking backgrounds.

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31:04

12 | Managing Complex Behaviour

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2025/01/28

In this episode, we learn from renowned international expert Associate Professor Kathleen Tait about PBS – Positive Behaviour Support, the importance of explicitly teaching behaviour strategies to your students, and how effective understanding and communication can enhance the classroom environment and experience for everyone.

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27:44

11 | Complex Communication Needs

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2025/01/28

In this episode, we learn from renowned international expert Associate Professor Kathleen Tait about the form and function of potential communicative acts and find out how to identify them. Kathleen shares strategies and advice for how to support communication in the classroom for students with complex communication needs.

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35:40

10 | Understanding neurodiversity

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2025/01/27

In this episode of our Inclusive Education series, we focus on neurodiversity and neurodivergent students. Dr Poulomee Datta, Lecturer in Inclusive Education, and Dr Anne McMaugh, Senior Lecturer in Educational Psychology and Child Development, chat about how to support neurodivergent students in the school context and discuss strategies for fostering a neuro-inclusive classroom.

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9 | Supporting students with sensory processing...

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2025/01/23

Our Inclusive Education series continues: in this episode, we chat about sensory processing. Dr Diana Tan explains the eight senses, and shares strategies to support students with sensory processing differences in the classroom.

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47:14

8 | Supporting Deaf and Hard of Hearing students in...

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2025/01/22

Our Inclusive Education series begins with a chat with Inclusive Education lecturer, Dr Iliana Skrebneva and Trudy Smith from NextSense, who discuss how teachers can support deaf and hard of hearing students and foster an inclusive classroom where all students can thrive.

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47:07

7 | AI prompting: top hints and techniques

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2024/11/28

In this episode, Dr Brian Ballsun-Stanton helps us understand how AI works, and chats about how we can best interact with frontier model LLMs (Large Language Models) to be effective users of AI technologies. We chat about the need to explicitly teach AI literacy to students, and what that looks like. Here is the poster of the top 10 tips and techniques that Dr Brian Ballsun-Stanton and Dr Jodie Torrington have developed

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29:21

6 | Indigenous Inclusion in an AI world

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2024/10/08

In this episode, Dr Tamika Worrell from the Department of Critical Indigenous Studies chats about considerations and implications for Indigenous inclusion and data sovereignty in a generative AI world. Here is the resource Tamika recommends for evaluating Indigenous resources: https://aiatsis.gov.au/education/guide-evaluating-and-selecting-education-resources

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32:08

5 | Trauma informed practice in Early Childhood...

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2024/09/13

In this episode, Professor Fay Hadley, an Early Childhood academic at Macquarie University chats with Beth Macgregor, Director of Macgregor Consulting, about the importance of co-regulation and how to help young children feel safe, connected and regulated. As Beth says, “Connection and regulation changes lives”.

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36:48

4 | Early Childhood Education: Supporting families...

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2024/08/27

In this episode, Dr Loraine Fordham, an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education chats with Dr Kathy Cologon, an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, to discuss barriers and enablers to families who have children with disabilities. They even discuss the No 1 most important thing for successful inclusion in Early Childhood Education...

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3 | Help! I'm teaching History for the first time

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2024/08/19

In this episode, we are talking about out-of-field teaching in high schools – and focusing specifically on teaching History. Rochelle Wilkinson, an experienced History teacher and sessional academic at Macquarie University provides a wealth of advice for teachers who find themselves teaching History for the first time.

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30:07

2 | Teaching research ethics in Stage 6

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2024/08/16

In this episode, we discuss teaching HSC research ethics in Stage 6 courses. Dr Natasha Todorov and Dr Stephanie Thompson, an expert Sydney secondary teacher, talk about the importance of the application of research ethics and how to make sure you are including this component in your classroom practice.

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26:36

1 | What does the new Generative AI framework mean...

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2024/08/16

What does the Generative AI framework mean for teachers? In this episode, we discuss the recent Australian framework for Generative Artificial Intelligence in Schools which was released late 2023. Professor Matt Bower unpacks the framework and its implication for teachers.

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