Becoming Educated

Darren Leslie

Becoming Educated explores the secrets to great teaching in our classrooms with the aim of helping all teachers to get better at their craft.

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Teaching Is My Sport with Samuel Elliott

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05/03/21 • 101 min

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.

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Closing the Reading Gap with Alex Quigley

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02/14/22 • 69 min

This week I am joined by Alex Quigley. Alex is a former English teacher and school leader, of over 15 years standing, who now works for the Education Endowment Foundation, supporting teachers to access research evidence. He can be found on twitter @AlexJQuigley and blogs at www.theconfidentteacher.com

He is the author of ‘The Confident Teacher’, ‘Closing the Vocabulary Gap’ and ‘Closing the Reading Gap’.

In this episode Alex & I explore the vital importance of reading in our schools and Alex clearly articulates why it should be the number one school improvement priority.

In this episode we discuss the following and so much more:

The history of reading and writing systems and why they are important for us to know about.

What the science of reading tells us on how we should teach reading.

How teachers can develop reading comprehension in their classrooms.

Academic and disciplinary reading and how they are different within each subject discipline.

Discussing the topic of reading with Alex has served to sharpen my own thinking and I came away with so many notes to unpick.

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This episode is sponsored by UpLearn:

Up Learn is an online, curriculum-learning resource for A Levels that helps teachers improve educational outcomes amongst students, whilst reducing their own workloads.

Developed by an experienced team of educators, Up Learn courses contain high-quality videos, quizzes and exam preparation material. Teachers direct students to certain sections of Up Learn as homework, facilitating flipped learning, consolidation of classroom material and independent learning.

97% of students who complete an Up Learn course achieve A*/A, with many starting from D's and U's. What could yours achieve?

Find out by booking a demo today at uplearn.co.uk, and be sure to quote Becoming Educated for a 10% discount.

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Making Classroom Practice More Effective with Jack Tavassoly-Marsh

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11/30/20 • 52 min

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 only a few weeks ago and is all available online, i’d highly recommend viewing some of those videos. Jack’s main aim is to ensure that all classrooms are truly inclusive and that teachers understand how they can be more effective than they already are, whilst always improving his own teaching too.

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The Fascist Painting with Phil Beadle

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10/19/20 • 54 min

Phil Beadle is a sometimes well thought of British educator who has authored ten books on teaching and learning including the 10/10 How to Teach. He is the editor of the How to Teach series, and has written for the Times, the Guardian, The Independent on Sunday and the Telegraph (though he is ashamed of this last one). His series of columns for Education Guardian ran for nine years before being cancelled due to bad behaviour. He is a former UK teacher of the year with 20 years experience of achieving transformational results with students from challenging areas. You may recognise him from the outstanding Channel 4 programme The Unteachables or from his many appearances on Teachers TV. More recently he has authored and published The Fascist Painting: What is Cultural Capital?

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Just Great Teaching with Ross Morrison McGill

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09/07/20 • 42 min

Ross Morrison McGill founded @TeacherToolkit from a simple Twitter account through which he rapidly became the 'most followed teacher on social media in the UK'. In 2015, he was nominated as one of the '500 Most Influential People in Britain' by The Sunday Times as a result of being most influential in the field of education. He remains the only classroom teacher to feature to this day ... Sharing resources and ideas online as @TeacherToolkit, he has built his website (c2008) which has been described as one of the 'most influential blogs on education in the UK', winning the UK Blog Awards (2018). Ross is also a best selling author of ‘100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers’, ‘Teacher Toolkit: Helping you Survive your First Five Years’, ‘Mark.Plan.Teach’ and ‘Just Great Teaching’

We discussed the following blogs during the episode and i'd highly recommend delving deeper into Ross' blog:

https://www.teachertoolkit.co.uk/2020/04/14/teaching-memory/

https://www.teachertoolkit.co.uk/2019/09/28/verbal-feedback-report/

We also discussed Effective Teacher Development which can be found on the following blog from Ross:

https://www.teachertoolkit.co.uk/2019/05/05/effective-cpd/

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A Manifesto for Change with Richard Gerver

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06/15/20 • 60 min

Richard Gerver has been described as one of the most inspirational leaders of his generation. He is an award-winning speaker, bestselling author and world-renowned thinker. Richard began his career in education, most notably as headmaster of the failing Grange Primary School. In just two years, he famously transformed the school into one of the most acclaimed learning environments in the world. He was celebrated by UNESCO and the UK Government for its incredible turnaround. Richards' books include the outstanding ‘Creating Tomorrow's Schools Today’, ‘Change’ and ‘Simple Thinking’. Richard's latest book, ‘Education: A Manifesto for Change’, explores how our school system can be made fit for purpose in our turbulent 21st-century world.

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Slow Teaching with Jamie Thom

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01/20/20 • 35 min

Jamie Thom is a full time English Teacher, host of the TES English Teaching Podcast and author of 'Slow Teaching: finding calm, clarity and impact in the classroom’. Jamie is also set to release his new book 'A Quiet Education: Challenging the extrovert ideal in our schools'. Jamie joins me to discuss 'Slow Teaching', teacher wellbeing and provides so insights into his upcoming book.

Show notes can be found at https://becomingeducated.co.uk

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The Teaching Triangle with Patrice Bain

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02/22/21 • 48 min

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 recently Powerful Teaching: A Guide for Parents

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Tutor Reading Programme with Josie Mingay

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03/01/21 • 50 min

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 curriculum, the crucial importance of reading, metacognition and motivation.

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Homework with Dr Jo Castelino

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11/28/22 • 66 min

This week I am joined Dr Jo Castelino who is a secondary Science teacher based in Yorkshire. Jo has a TLR for leading homework in her school and has recently shared her knowledge of how homework can become a successful part of schooling at ResearchEd.

Jo writes about her work on her blog which can be found here. I would recommend this article Jo wrote for Impact where she discusses how homework, done well, can become a ‘significant motivator for learning.’

In this episode we discuss the following and so much more:

How we get it right so that homework becomes a ‘significant motivator for learning.’

How we get students to do their homework.

What makes for effective homework.

How important it is that homework becomes a habit and embedded within the routine of schooling.

How we ensure homework doesn’t further disadvantage disadvantaged students.

I learned so much from Jo in this conversation. She highlights some key things we should all consider and demonstrates the importance of thinking deeply about what we do with regards to homework.

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Keep the conversation going using #becomingeducated and tagging me @dnleslie

If you have time, I would love for you to review Becoming Educated and share what you love about the podcast.

You can support the ongoing production of the podcast by buying me a coffee

This episode is sponsored by UpLearn:

Up Learn is an online, curriculum-learning resource for A Levels that helps teachers improve educational outcomes amongst students, whilst reducing their own workloads.

Developed by an experienced team of educators, Up Learn courses contain high-quality videos, quizzes, and exam preparation material. Teachers’ direct students to certain sections of Up Learn as homework, facilitating flipped learning, consolidation of classroom material and independent learning.

97% of students who complete an Up Learn course achieve A*/A, with many starting from D's and U's. What could yours achieve? Find out by booking a demo today at uplearn.co.uk and be sure to quote Becoming Educated for a 10% discount

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How many episodes does Becoming Educated have?

Becoming Educated currently has 93 episodes available.

What topics does Becoming Educated cover?

The podcast is about Learning, Teaching, Podcasts and Education.

What is the most popular episode on Becoming Educated?

The episode title 'Effective Teacher-Led Lessons with Pritesh Raichura' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Becoming Educated?

The average episode length on Becoming Educated is 60 minutes.

How often are episodes of Becoming Educated released?

Episodes of Becoming Educated are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of Becoming Educated?

The first episode of Becoming Educated was released on Jan 6, 2020.

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