{"podcast":{"title":"Chalk Dust","slug":"chalk-dust-7274496","podcast_index_feed_id":7274496,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/4355714.rss","website_url":"https://chalkdust.media/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/4355714/228d1dfca0d89dcec96b38f46246a07f.jpg","author":"Nathaniel Swain","episode_count":17,"summary":"Chalk Dust is the podcast that gives you a front-row seat to some of the best classrooms in the world.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chalk-dust-7274496"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 6: Real-time teaching","slug":"episode-6-real-time-teaching","published_at":"2025-08-31T21:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chalk-dust-7274496/episode-6-real-time-teaching","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chalk-dust-7274496","url":"https://chalkdust.media/p/episode-5-real-time-teaching","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/172055864/a2dee83aa5c0f0008a2d2acdbc41f083.mp3","summary":"Summary In this episode of Chalk Dust, Rebecca Birch and Dr Nathaniel Swain are joined by Dr Carl Hendrick , Professor of Education at Academica University of Applied Sciences and co-author of How Learning Happens and How Teaching Happens . Together, the team explore real classroom footage from Australian classrooms, reflecting on how teachers respond when learning doesn’t go exactly to plan. They analyse three lessons: Jeanette Breen ’s Year 3 class tackling sentence kernels, Troy from Sophia College guiding students through sentence fragments in a secondary context, and Mark De Bruin from Cranbrook using a “Do Now” and visualiser work to develop literacy. Across these examples, Carl, Rebecca and Nathaniel highlight what expert teachers do when slides contain errors, students answer unexpectedly, or early practice shows misconceptions. Themes include how to pivot in real-time, why checking for understanding is more than asking “are we good?”, and how to create psychological safety so imperfect student work can be used as a springboard for improvement. They also discuss the role of cultural knowledge in English, why retrieval practice can fail if poorly executed, and how responsive teaching underpins explicit instruction. Carl reflects on the “illusions of learning” that shaped his forthcoming book , co-written with Paul Kirschner, and explains why engagement, apparent fluency, or polished lessons are not always indicators of genuine understanding. Mentioned resources and explainers How Learning Happens / How Teaching Happens Carl’s earlier books with Paul Kirschner distilling core findings from cognitive psychology for teachers. The Writing Revolution (TWR) Referenced in Jeanette’s lesson, this approach uses sentence kernels to build syntactic and compositional fluenc…","meta_description":"Summary In this episode of Chalk Dust, Rebecca Birch and Dr Nathaniel Swain are joined by Dr Carl Hendrick , Professor of Education at Academica Universit…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2338,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/chalk-dust-7274496/episodes/episode-6-real-time-teaching/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chalk-dust-7274496/episode-6-real-time-teaching.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}