Becoming Educated

This week I am in discussion with Anne Glennie & Stuart Farmer on the topic of Professional Learning. We discuss the following and much much more: How we currently take part in Professional Learning? Is it working? What would great Professional Learning look like? How do we create a system that allows us to realise this dream of meaningful Professional Learning for all? You can support the ongoing...

Josh Goodrich is the founder of Steplab, an English teacher, former MAT Professional Development lead and a coaching geek. In this episode we explore Instructional Coaching and unpick Josh's series of blogs on this topic. https://notes.steplab.co/post/BPav00-5/When-we-talk-about-Instructional-Coaching-what-do-we-mean You can follow Josh on twitter using the handle @Josh_CPD. You can support the po...

Nikki Cunningham-Smith has experience as an assistant headteacher, SENCO and centre lead in a pupil referral unit. She coaches teachers to support them with behaviour management in the classroom and writes a behaviour blog for TES. Nikki is also the author of 'Feel Free to Smile: The Behaviour Management Survival Guide for New Teachers'. If you want to support the podcast please do so at buymeacof...

Bruce Robertson is the Rector of Berwickshire High School in the Scottish Borders. Bruce is the author of the brilliant ‘The Teaching Delusion:why teaching in our schools isn't good enough (and how we can make it better)’. ‘The Teaching Delusion 2: Teaching Strikes Back’ and ‘The Teaching Delusion 3: Power Up Your Pedagogy’. You can get the trilogy now from John Catt Educational. Want to support t...

Zoe Enser was a classroom English teacher for over 20 years as well as head of department and school leader in charge of improving teaching and learning. She is now lead English specialist advisor for Kent with The Education People. Mark Enser has been a geography teacher for the best part of two decades as well as a head of department and research lead. He is the author of Making Every Geography...

Kate Jones is currently Head of History at The British School Al Khubairat (BSAK) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates but will soon be returning to UK shores to take up a post at Innerdrive as Teaching & Learning Lead. Author of Love To Teach: Research and Resources for Every Classroom and Retrieval Practice: Research and resources for Every Classroom, Retrieval Practice 2: Implementing, Embedding...

Joshua Vallance is the National Lead of History for Oasis Academies and leads on Curriculum at Oasis Academy Shirley Park. https://mrvallanceteach.wordpress.com/blog/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dan Edwards is a principal of a large primary school. Prior to this Dan taught in a secondary school teaching a full timetable of GCSE and A-Levels. Dan has held leadership roles in both primary and secondary sectors and has also spent considerable time working in various education units in adolescent residential social care. Dan also had a brief sojourn teaching post-graduates as a visiting lectu...

Bradley Busch is a chartered psychologist. With extensive experience working in schools, he is a leading expert at helping schools utilise psychological research. Outside of education, Bradley works with elite athletes including professional footballers and Team GB.    Edward Watson is a graduate of Oxford University who served seven years in the Army. After receiving an MBA at The London Business...

Tamsin Bellaby is a Lincolnshire based secondary teacher of Art Photography and recently Business Studies. Tamsin is obsessed with the power of transformative culture within schools. Until January she was the HoY11 and led on inclusion. Tamsin has recently started at a new school where she leads Pupil Premium and drives KS4 and KS5 achievement. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...

Samuel Elliott has been a classroom teacher since 2016. Having grown up, lived in and taught in deprived areas, Samuel possesses key insights into misbehaviour that many teachers lack. These experiences informed his approaches in his trainee and NQT years, which, combined with his research into behaviour psychology, have since given rise to a pedagogy that borrows from both traditional and progres...

Anne Glennie is a literacy consultant and trainer, author of Reflective Reading and owner of The Learning Zoo. To date, she has trained over 10,000 teachers in all aspects of literacy and assessment in Scotland. Anne has a particular interest in the teaching of reading through synthetic phonics, she sits on the Reading Reform Foundation committee and is also a founding committee member of IFERI -...

Haili Hughes is an English teacher and a former head of department and senior leader who has mentored new teachers and ITT students for over ten years. A former journalist Haili has been teaching for the best part of 15 years and has enjoyed developing teachers at many stages of their career. Haili writes regularly for TES and other education publications and she is the author of Preserving Positi...

Jon Tait is the Director of School Improvement and Deputy CEO at Arete Learning Trust in North Yorkshire. Jon started teaching in 2001 as a qualified PE teacher and more recently has taught Computer Science. Jon has been a senior leader for 13 of his 19 years in teaching. Jon is the author of five books, 100 ideas for engaging learners, Bloomsbury CPD Library: Senior Leadership, Succeeding as a He...

Barry Smith is a founding senior leader of Michaela Community School, former Headteacher of Great Yarmouth Charter Academy and Regional Director of Community Schools Trust in London. Barry and I discuss how to improve teaching and pupil buy in, what really good behaviour looks like, how to get staff buy in and how to build a culture of genuine mutual respect. Barry also shares his aim to have the...

Sarah Cottingham is Associate Dean of Learning Design at Ambition Institute and is studying for a MA in Educational Neuroscience. Kathryn Morgan is Expert Adviser at the Teacher Development Programme, Research Associate at the University of Gloucester and is studying for a MA in Education Leadership. We discuss Deliberate Practice beginning with what it is and why we need it in education. We explo...

Mark Jesnick is the Assistant Principal for Teaching and Learning at Ark John Keats Academy in Enfield. Mark blogs at https://markmywords1989.wordpress.com/ and you can find him on twitter @JesnickMark. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Louis Everett is an Assistant Headteacher for Teaching & Learning at the West London Free School. Louis is a History Teacher, former Head of History and Head of Year. Louis completed a Master in Education at the University of Cambridge and during that time has a Research Lead & Whole School teaching & Learning Coach. Louis joined the West London Free School in 2016 as Head of History and oversaw a...

Jade Pearce is an Assistant Headteacher with responsibility for Teaching & Learning. She is a subject expert for initial teacher education, an evidence lead in education and passionate about research, pedagogy and continuing professional development. You can follow Jade on twitter @pearcemrs and her wonderful blog can be found at https://mrspearce865924391.wordpress.com/   Hosted on Acast. See aca...

Josie Mingay is School Improvement Leader for Greenshaw Learning Trust. She has significant experience of driving standards across primary and secondary phases, with a particular focus on literacy and language. She has designed phonics programmes with national success and has spoken at various educational conferences, including PiXL, ResearchEd, Reading Reform Foundation. Josie regularly delivers...

Patrice Bain is an educator, speaker and author. Finalist for Illinois Teacher of the Year and a Fulbright Scholar in Russia. She spent 15 of her 25+ year teaching career working with cognitive scientists turning research into learning strategies. She was asked by the Department of Education to work with cognitive scientists to co-author Organising Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning...

Sam Hall trained as a geography teacher in the North East of England. He now works at the online education company Up Learn, where he spends each day writing scripts for instructional videos. Sam writes and talks about Siegfried Engelmann’s model of Direct Instruction. You can read his blog which is shallteach.wordpress.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

James worked as a science teacher for 12 years. He has an MA in person-Centred Education from the University of Sussex and a PhD in Learning to Learn from the University of Cambridge. James’s doctoral thesis is an 8-year evaluation of the Learning Skills Curriculum, the focus of ‘Fear is the Mind Killer’ co-authored with Kate McAllister. James works as a Bespoke programme leader at the Centre of E...

Dan Hudson is the Assistant Vice Principal including Teaching & Learning at Oasis Academy John Williams in Principal. He started teaching in 2009 and spent a decade at St Peter's Catholic High School in Gloucester. He was a Head of Year for 4 years before moving into SLT as an Associate Vice Principal moving to his role at Oasis Academy John Williams in 2019. In this episode we unpick his schools...

Kate Jones is Head of History at The British School Al Khubairat (BSAK) in Abu Dhabi,United Arab Emirates. Originally from Wrexham in North Wales, Kate taught in the UK for six years at Elfed High School before relocating to the UAE in 2016.  Kate is also a Lead Practitioner specialising in teaching and learning. Kate provides regular training for educators and leaders both in the UK and internati...