In this very special episode, Professor Yong Zhao joins Michael Jacobsen and Sam Franzway on the fifth day of the HIP Learning Festival in Chongqing, China, to talk about the inception of the concept of human interdependency, and the ways in which it has informed the development of approaches to international education in the 21st century.

This podcast is from a series of five special episodes of Why Teach? recorded over the course of a week-long learning festival held in Chongqing, China (17-24 August, 2024). The festival focused around the Human Interdependence Project, developed and lead by YEE Education.

See Michael and Sam's pervious discussion with Professor Zhao on the Silver Lining for Learning podcast "What Can They Do When Empowered: Student and Teacher Voice from South Australia"

https://silverliningforlearning.org/episode-181-what-can-they-do-when-empowered-student-and-teacher-voice-from-south-australia/

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Mark McCormick joins Michael Jacobsen and Sam Franzway to talk about the origins of his teaching and how he came to be standing in the Human Interdependency Project classroom in Chongqing. The pathways of teachers are both varied and similar, and Mark puts some strong questions to Michael and Sam about their experiences of teaching, and of using AI, in the HIP learning festival classroom.

This podcast is from a series of five special episodes of Why Teach? recorded over the course of a week-long learning festival held in Chongqing, China (17-24 August, 2024). The festival focused around the Human Interdependence Project, developed and lead by YEE Education.

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Dr Trina Emler shares the experience of bringing a high-level, multi-country learning festival together, and the impetus behind moving towards an interdependence model of teaching in the classroom. We also share the experience of travelling internationally to go and teach in a different country.

This podcast is from a series of five special episodes of Why Teach? recorded over the course of a week-long learning festival held in Chongqing, China (17-24 August, 2024). The festival focused around the Human Interdependence Project, developed and lead by YEE Education.

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Teacher Amy talks with Michael Jacobsen and Sam Franzway about teaching in the HIP program, and the work of conveying complex ideas across the language barrier, while still keeping the content relevant and engaging for a class of Year 7 Chinese students on the first day of their first week of high school.

This podcast is from a series of five special episodes of Why Teach? recorded over the course of a week-long learning festival held in Chongqing, China (17-24 August, 2024). The festival focused around the Human Interdependence Project, developed and lead by YEE Education.

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Day 1: University Senior College colleagues, Vanessa Grave (USC Director of Marketing and Community Relations), Michael Jacobsen and Sam Franzway discuss their first impressions of China, Chongqing, and teaching in Chongqing No.8 Secondary School.

This podcast is from a series of five special episodes of Why Teach? recorded over the course of a week-long learning festival held in Chongqing, China (17-24 August, 2024). The festival focused around the Human Interdependence Project, developed and lead by YEE Education.

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This podcast usually looks at the backgrounds of the teachers who come on; what inspired them to get into teaching, and what keeps them inspired. On this very special episode, previous guest and absolute legend, Michael Jacobsen, talks with host, Sam Franzway, about a collaborative teaching project called the Human Interdependency Project that keeps them inspired every day. It might even start to answer this podcast's main question: why teach? Why? Well, friends, because you might just get to work on a cross-year-level, cross-subject, outward facing, community focused business project that eventually sees you, your colleagues and your students invited to a learning festival in Chongqing, China. Because that's where Michael, Sam, and a group from University Senior College are heading 72 hours after recording.

Listen in for their final impressions of the organisation, work and good times involved in putting together an exciting, well-supported learning project, before they head off to a international learning festival with YEE Education.

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On this first in-depth interview of 2024, Sam speaks with Research Project teacher, Year Level Dean, Steve Todd. We talk about the interesting pathways of life that lead people to become teachers, and our plans for bringing interest in and engagement with the outside world to the classroom. If you're an early-career teacher with a passion for politics and history, Steve discusses a range of ways to bring that he brings that enthusiasm to his students.

Sam also deeply regrets not introducing this one as a Todd-cast.

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