Beyond Good
by Matt Findlay and Femi Adeniran
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Scaffolding support for middle leaders?
Scaffolding support for middle leaders?
About this podcast
A podcast about teaching. We discuss teaching and learning, pedagogy, lessons and classroom practise, management and leadership, teaching of mathematics, training and trainees, mentors and mentoring, behaviour management, being a head of department and running a faculty, SLT and much much more!
Episodes
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- Scaffolding support for middle leaders? · 34 min · Season 4 Episode 7Do meeting proformas handed down from SLT to middle leaders help or hinder? Is a checklist better? How well do SLTs leaders model running high-quality meetings and line…
- September's Inset Day · 50 min · Season 4 Episode 6Nothing advertises SLT being detached from reality more than forcing staff to spend entire day(s) sat listening to speakers in the hall. Matt and Femi discuss alternatives.
- Saying what you actually want to say! · 37 min · Season 4 Episode 5Femi and Matt discuss what it takes and means to be clear with staff and say what it is that actually want to say!
- QA'ing Books · 60 min · Season 4 Episode 4Matt and Femi discuss issues around QA of books, including the importance of a clear, shared understanding of what a book is for! Amongst much else, they touch on whether there…
- Inclusive Teaching · 34 min · Season 4 Episode 3Matt and Femi discuss the terms 'inclusive teaching', 'adaptive teaching' and 'responsive teaching'. The point is also made that great teaching is, by definition, inclusive…
- Believing in students · 46 min · Season 4 Episode 2Reflecting on a lovely message received from a former student, Matt and Femi discuss what it means to believe in our students and how that belief plays out in our actions and…
- Reduce change to increase improvement · 54 min · Season 4 Episode 1Welcome to Season 4! After brief introductions for new listeners Matt and Femi discuss the first part of Viviane Robinson's book 'Reduce change to increase performance'. In…
- Are my lessons challenging enough? · 42 min · Season 3 Episode 72Femi reflects on the last year with one particular class in mind and asks: "Are my lessons challenging enough?"
- A maths teacher's reflections on teaching science · 49 min · Season 3 Episode 71Femi has been teaching a Science class and shares his approach and reflections with Matt. They discuss 'learning to learn', booklets, AI, rounds of teaching and CFU, shed loads…
- A dearth of good models! · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 70Amongst other things, Femi and Matt talk about how hard it can be as a middle leader to lead on change without strong models to refer to.
- Gently testing the boundaries... · 26 min · Season 3 Episode 69Matt and Femi discuss the subtle ways students can often make life difficult for teachers, and why this happens in some classrooms but not in others.
- Seating plans, seating reset and Intangibles · 36 min · Season 3 Episode 68Matt and Femi have a chat about teachers using seating plan resets as a strategy, debate breaking down intangible aspects like 'feel' into granular concrete components when…
- More practice needed! · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 67Matt and Femi talk about coaching, and how teachers working on their craft will often need to stick with a particular focus and practice it with reflection and feedback to master…
- Class Reset · 44 min · Season 3 Episode 66Matt discusses with Femi a recent conversation he had with a teacher that he supports regarding resetting a challenging class in which norms had severely slipped from previous…
- Economy of language · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 65Matt and Femi discuss economy of language during explanations and the advantages of keeping teacher talk lean. Contact us at: [email protected]
- When the new knowledge enters the room · 42 min · Season 3 Episode 64Matt and Femi discuss a couple of really common issues that undermine teachers' ability to deliver powerful, clear and memorable explanations.
- This class doesn't retain things! · 37 min · Season 3 Episode 63Matt and Femi discuss what to do with a comment often heard by the coffee machine... "This class doesn't retain things!" [email protected]
- Humanities Teaching with James Gisby · 44 min · Season 3 Episode 62Matt and Femi talk to James Gisby about the challenges and intricacies of teaching History, and what good History lessons could look like.
- Effective often looks boring! · 39 min · Season 3 Episode 61Matt and Femi discuss why effective learning can often look somewhat boring from the outside, and why that can sometimes be problematic in schools. [email protected]
- Ruck speed! · 45 min · Season 3 Episode 60Matt and Femi discuss the importance of very prompt transition moments in lessons. Reach out by emailing [email protected]
