Amy Gaunt joins host Dr. Shaddai Tembo for Series 8 of the TTS Talking Educators’ Podcast to discuss integrating oracy strategies.
Amy is Director of Learning, Impact and Influence at Voice 21, the national oracy education charity that supports schools to build speaking and listening into the curriculum, teaching, learning and wider school life.
Amy joined Voice 21’s founding leadership team in 2016 and has supported its growth from one London school to a network of over 1000 schools across the UK. She is passionate about teaching and learning and ensuring every child has regular opportunities to develop their thinking and understanding through talk whilst at school.
Amy has developed Voice 21’s approach to oracy education, teacher development and school improvement and leads Voice 21’s impact function. She is co-author of Transform Teaching and Learning through Talk: the Oracy Imperative and Voice 21’s Oracy Benchmarks. Amy has recently completed an MA Education at the Institute of Education. Before joining Voice 21, she was a primary school teacher, both in London and internationally.
In collaboration with TTS
As a contributor to the TTS Talking Educators’ podcast series, Amy discusses:
- Defining and Unpicking Oracy
- Supporting Oracy in the Classroom
- Debate, drama and storytelling in oracy education
- Rolling out consistent oracy strategies
