ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
I'm so glad you're here, I'm your host Nicola. 🩵✨
Term Talk is a podcast for primary education, made in Australia and written for teachers everywhere. It is grounded in the belief that teachers don't have all the answers and that meaningful professional growth happens through curiosity, collaboration, research-informed practice, and honest reflection.
Early in my career, I wished for a mentor to guide me through uncertainty in teaching. What I had instead was curiosity and a deep drive to keep learning, asking better questions, and growing through experience.
Through personal experiences, thoughtful conversations, and reflective insights, each episode explores what it really means to:
✨Keep learning through mistakes + challenges in education.
✨Ask better questions + engage more deeply with educational research.
✨Reflect honestly on teaching practice + professional identity.
✨Build confidence as an educator without pretending to have it all figured out.
This is not a podcast about overnight success or polished teaching solutions.
It is about progress, experimentation, and choosing to begin, even when teaching feels uncertain or messy.
Term Talk embraces the human side of teaching and creates space for educators to feel supported, empowered, and confident to lead, learn, and thrive in their own authentic way.
New episodes drop weekly.
Follow along, listen in, and let this podcast become part of your professional learning routine.
✨ Connect with me:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/termtalkpodcast/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ndibernardo
🩵 Visit the website: https://termtalk.com.au/
✨ Join the Term Talk Hub for tools and resources built for teachers: https://hub.termtalk.com.au/
Term Talk is a podcast for primary education, made in Australia and written for teachers everywhere. It is grounded in the belief that teachers don't have all the answers and that meaningful professional growth happens through curiosity, collaboration, research-informed practice, and honest reflection.
Early in my career, I wished for a mentor to guide me through uncertainty in teaching. What I had instead was curiosity and a deep drive to keep learning, asking better questions, and growing through experience.
Through personal experiences, thoughtful conversations, and reflective insights, each episode explores what it really means to:
✨Keep learning through mistakes + challenges in education.
✨Ask better questions + engage more deeply with educational research.
✨Reflect honestly on teaching practice + professional identity.
✨Build confidence as an educator without pretending to have it all figured out.
This is not a podcast about overnight success or polished teaching solutions.
It is about progress, experimentation, and choosing to begin, even when teaching feels uncertain or messy.
Term Talk embraces the human side of teaching and creates space for educators to feel supported, empowered, and confident to lead, learn, and thrive in their own authentic way.
New episodes drop weekly.
Follow along, listen in, and let this podcast become part of your professional learning routine.
✨ Connect with me:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/termtalkpodcast/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ndibernardo
🩵 Visit the website: https://termtalk.com.au/
✨ Join the Term Talk Hub for tools and resources built for teachers: https://hub.termtalk.com.au/
Hosts:
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
11 minutes
English
Australia
30 episodes
since Jan. 23, 2026
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
🤔💭 Thinking routines became a thing you're supposed to be doing.
There's a poster in the room next door, someone mentioned them in a staff meeting, and when you've tried them, they felt a bit flat. The class went through the motions, and you weren't sure anything changed.
This episode is about the…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
🤓 'I've finished.' Four minutes in. And now the rest of your lesson becomes supplying entertainment to the kids who work fastest.
This episode is about why the fast finisher has been misunderstood. A child who finishes in four minutes isn't a logistics problem to be managed with the early finisher…
🫣🚫 A child melts down over something small, and a tired voice in your head says the quiet thing: 'they should be able to handle this by now'.
This episode is about the expectation underneath that moment.
We expect children to manage feelings we have never actually taught them to name. Emotional re…
🗣️ Say 'differentiation' in a staffroom and watch the shoulders drop.
Somewhere along the way it stopped meaning good teaching and started meaning more: more worksheets, more groups, more versions of the same lesson, more of you spread thinner.
This episode takes the word back.
Differentiation was …
You ask a rich, open question and you get silence. 🫣🤫🚫
Or the same three hands. Or 'I don't know' before you've even finished asking.
It's easy to conclude your students can't think critically, or that you need better questions, better routines, a better program.
This episode is about why none of t…
🎉Term 3 starts here,
and it starts with the thing that makes every other part of the term work. ✨
If you've walked back into your classroom and felt like the class you built has slipped a little, this episode is for you. The routines are mostly there. The relationships are mostly there. But someth…
🎙️ Reflection Before Reset: What Reporting Reveals About Your Teaching
This is the final episode of the Term 2 series. And before we close it out - I want to ask a question most teachers skip at the end of every term.
Not where did your students finish. Where did your teaching land?
Because data is…
🎙️ Prompt Before Panic: How to Use GPTs Without Getting Generic Output
Most teachers who try AI and give up are not giving up because AI doesn't work.
They asked the wrong question. And asking better questions is a skill. One that nobody teaches. One that nobody assumes you need.
And one that mak…
🎙️ Support Before Struggle: Using AI to Think, Not Replace
There is a conversation happening in schools right now that is generating a lot of noise and not a lot of clarity.
AI.
Some teachers are using it constantly and quietly. Some are avoiding it entirely.
And most are somewhere in the middle - …
🎙️ Organisation Before Overload: How to Store Data So It Actually Helps You
Reports are done.
And somewhere in your classroom, your drive, or your desk is a term's worth of data, evidence, and records that most teachers put somewhere and never find again.
This episode is about breaking that cycle.
…
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