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 and Reflecting and Retrieval Practice: Resource Guide. Kate's most recent book is Wiliam & L...
Oct 04, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 67
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.
Jun 21, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 66
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 lecturer at universities. Dan is a regular columnist for Teach Primary, The Headteacher magazine and SSAT...
May 24, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 65
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 school, he worked as a strategic management consultant for Marakon Associates before running businesse...
May 17, 2021•59 min•Ep. 64
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 information.
May 10, 2021•58 min•Ep. 63
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 progressive philosophies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 03, 2021•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 62
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 - the International Foundation for Effective Reading Instruction. She is passionate about reading for ...
Apr 26, 2021•58 min•Ep. 61
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 Positivity and Mentoring in Schools. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 19, 2021•50 min•Ep. 60
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 Head of Year, Teaching Rebooted & Stepping Into Senior Leadership Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...
Apr 12, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 59
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 'most relaxed school in the country'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 05, 2021•48 min•Ep. 58
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 explore if it is all about changing teacher habits, the difference between purposeful practice and delibe...
Mar 29, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 57
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.
Mar 22, 2021•38 min•Ep. 56
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 drastic improvement in results across GCSE & A-Level, created the WLFS History Teac...
Mar 15, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 55
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 acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 08, 2021•37 min•Ep. 54
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 bespoke CPD on key themes around the development of language, the impact of literacy on the wider cu...
Mar 01, 2021•51 min•Ep. 53
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. In addition, Patrice co-authored Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning and most recen...
Feb 22, 2021•49 min•Ep. 52
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.
Feb 15, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 51
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 Educational Leadership in the UCL Institute of Education. He is an Associate of Oracy Cambridge and a...
Feb 08, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 50
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 Teacher Development Curriculum included their focus on Deliberate Practice. Hosted on Acast. See...
Feb 01, 2021•51 min•Ep. 49
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 internationally. Kate has spoken at various educational conferences around the world. Author of Love To Teach:...
Jan 25, 2021•57 min•Ep. 48
I am joined by Sam Strickland aka the Strickomaster. Sam is a former History teacher who now works as the Principal of the Duston School in Northampton. Sam has overseen his Schools GCSE results from the bottom 20% to the top 20% Nationally. Sam's first book Education Exposed published by John Catt in 2020 was a feature of Podcast 12 back in April 2020. Sam’s punchy follow up Education Exposed 2 was published in November 2020. Twitter - @dnleslie Email - [email protected] Hosted on A...
Jan 18, 2021•48 min•Ep. 47
Jonathan Firth is an author, PGDE tutor & school psychology teacher. His research interests focus on memory and on teacher research engagement, and he has authored several books relating to the psychology of education, as well as school psychology textbooks including Psychology in the Classroom, How to Learn and Teacher’s Guide to Research Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 11, 2021•47 min•Ep. 46
Sarah Larsen has been a Geography Teacher in and around Greater London for 22 years. Prior to having her first child, she led the Geography Department in her current school. She is passionate about being research-informed and in 2018 , she was one of 13 teachers who carried out research for UCL and Ross McGill’s ‘Verbal Feedback Project’. She has spoken at several educational events about the merits of verbal feedback including ResearchEd Surrey and TMGeogIcons. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...
Dec 14, 2020•38 min•Ep. 45
Pritesh Raichura is Head of Science at Michaela Community School. He blogs at bunsenblue.wordpress.com about school values, pedagogy & #CogSciSci. He has recently contributed two chapters in the new book 'The Power of Culture' written by Michaela teachers. Pritesh has given talks at a number of ResearchEd events on topics such as Quality Teacher Talk, Effective Planning of Teacher Led Lessons and Effective Questioning, which we will look into in today's podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...
Dec 07, 2020•45 min•Ep. 44
Jack is a geography teacher and was head of geography for four years, prior to taking up the role of assistant headteacher, with the primary responsibility of ITT and NQT to NQT+3 teacher development. Jack now leads teaching and learning across the school and the school’s aim is to become research-informed in all that they do, as teachers, in the classroom. Jack is also an ELE - Evidence Lead in Education with Durrington Research School Jack is also the organiser of ResearchED Surrey, which was ...
Nov 30, 2020•52 min•Ep. 43
Adam Riches is a full time English teacher in the UK. He is a senior leader for teaching and learning and a specialist leader in education. Adam contributes writing to Teach Secondary, Teach Primary, SecEd and TES. Adam is the author of the brilliant ‘Teach Smarter: Efficient and Effective Strategies for Early Career Teachers’. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 23, 2020•46 min•Ep. 42
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 Lesson Count and Teach Like Nobody’s Watching and is a TES columnist. Together they have written the...
Nov 16, 2020•40 min•Ep. 41
Tom Bennett was a teacher in the East End of London for thirteen years. Currently he is the Director and founder of researchED, a grass-roots, teacher-led project that aims to make teachers research-literate and pseudo-science proof. Since 2013 researchED has grown from a tweet to an international conference movement that so far has spanned three continents and six countries. In 2009 he was made a Teacher Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University. From 2008-2016 he wrote a weekly co...
Nov 09, 2020•45 min•Ep. 40
Michael Chiles began as a geography teacher in a secondary school in the West Midlands. There he became head of department and then a senior leader with responsibility for teaching and learning. Michael then relocated to the North West, stepping out of the classroom to develop and deliver teacher training both nationally and internationally. He is now head of department in a secondary school in the north west and is the author of ‘The CRAFT of Assessment’. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy ...
Nov 02, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 39
Ros Wilson entered the teaching profession in 1965 and has served continuously since. She has wide experience in education, including: working with pupils with SEND; working with pupils with EAL; senior leadership; head of a large primary department overseas; local authority advisor; primary strategy manager; independent consultant; advanced skills teacher assessor; Ofsted inspector; creator and published author of Big Writing and associated texts. Most recently she has published ‘It Takes 5 Yea...
Oct 26, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 38
