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Becoming Educated
Darren Leslie
97 episodes
3 months ago
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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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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Becoming Educated
Science of Learning TL:DR with Dr Carl Hendrick

In this episode of The Becoming Educated Podcast I speak with Dr Carl Hendrick about the science of learning.


The conversation delves into the intricacies of memory and its impact on learning and teaching. It explores the limitations of working memory, the importance of retrieval practice, and the role of schemas in organising knowledge.


The discussion emphasises effective teaching strategies that align with cognitive science principles, highlighting the need for explicit instruction and spaced learning to enhance retention and understanding in students.


This episode was based on the following tweet by Dr Carl Hendrick:


https://x.com/C_Hendrick/status/1844437583587049490


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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


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6 months ago
57 minutes 28 seconds

Becoming Educated
Do I Have Your Attention with Blake Harvard

In this episode of The Becoming Educated Podcast, Blake Harvard discusses the concept of attention contagion in classrooms, emphasising how inattentive behaviours can spread among students.


He explores the importance of classroom design, the limitations of working memory, and the significance of cognitive load theory in instructional design.


Harvard introduces the SAR method (Sense, Attend, Rehearse) as a strategy for students to enhance their learning process and emphasises the role of retrieval practice in effective studying.


In this conversation, Blake Harvard also discusses the importance of retrieval practice in education, emphasising its role in enhancing memory retention and reducing test anxiety.


He shares practical strategies for teachers to incorporate retrieval and spaced practice into their classrooms, highlighting the significance of creating habits around retrieval.


The discussion also touches on the psychological aspects of learning, including how stress affects memory formation and the importance of understanding the context of learning. Harvard concludes with advice for new teachers, encouraging them to focus on key teaching principles and allow themselves time to grow in their profession.


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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


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8 months ago
53 minutes 38 seconds

Becoming Educated
Just Tell Them with Zach Groshell

In this episode of The Becoming Educated Podcast, Zach Groshell discusses the importance of effective explanations in teaching, emphasising the value of direct instruction and cognitive science principles.


He reflects on his own teaching experiences, critiques traditional discovery-based learning, and advocates for explicit teaching methods that enhance student understanding and engagement.


The discussion covers practical strategies for teachers, the role of storytelling, and the significance of pacing and active learning. Groshell also highlights the need for coaching and self-development in education, asserting that these methods are beneficial for all students, especially those who struggle with learning.


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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


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8 months ago
49 minutes 24 seconds

Becoming Educated
Primary Reading Simplified with Christopher Such

In this episode of The Becoming Educated Podcast, Chris Such discusses his philosophy on teaching reading, emphasising the need for a balanced approach that supports both novice and experienced teachers.


He explores the intertwined nature of word recognition and language comprehension, the importance of phonics instruction, and the necessity of accurate decoding practice.


Chris also outlines effective reading lesson structures that promote independent reading and addresses the significance of assessing and overcoming barriers to reading development.


His insights provide a comprehensive framework for educators looking to enhance their reading instruction practices.


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Please join our Facebook Group. I would love for you to join and share your takeaways from this episode and engage in discussion with fellow listeners.


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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


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8 months ago
1 hour 13 minutes 6 seconds

Becoming Educated
Homework with Dr Jo Castelino

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.

Get involved and share widely.

Please join our Facebook Group. I would love for you to join and share your takeaways from this episode and engage in discussion with fellow listeners.

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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2 years ago
1 hour 6 minutes 39 seconds

Becoming Educated
Guide to Memory with Ross Morrison McGill

This week I am joined by Ross McGill, founder of Teacher Toolkit, his alter ego you might say. Ross is the bestselling author of ‘Mark.Plan.Teach’, Teacher Toolkit and Just Great Teaching and has also co-authored brilliant books including ‘The Revision Revolution’.

Recently, Ross released 'The Teacher Toolkit Guide to Memory' and it really is a fantastic addition to the cogsci discussion. Ross describes it as a beginners guide to memory, but it is so much more than that and we unpick some of the key themes in today’s episode.

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

Why memory is the number one thing to know about

Some basic parts of the human brain and why we should know about them

How memory is shaped in the brain

How we can use Direct Instruction and Dual Coding to deliver content clearly and efficiently

The different types of memory including short term memory and long-term memory

The connection between emotions and learning

This is a far-ranging conversation and Ross speaks with honesty and clarity when explaining complex concepts.

Get involved and share widely.

Please join our Facebook Group. I would love for you to join and share your takeaways from this episode and engage in discussion with fellow listeners.

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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3 years ago
1 hour 6 minutes 31 seconds

Becoming Educated
Teaching Secondary Science with Adam Boxer

This week I am joined by Adam Boxer. Adam is the head of science at Totteridge Academy, co-founder of Carousel Learning and author of the brilliant book ‘Teaching Secondary Science’. In the book Adam distils years of hard-won experience and outlines his approach to teaching and it goes well beyond just science. The huge 100 plus pages on explanations are worth the purchase of the book alone and his outline on how to build a culture of retrieval.

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

Why our teaching should be content-led and not resource-led

What is meant by the term 'Ratio'

Why a good explanation is the 'beating heart of an effective learning sequence'

The features of an effective explanation

How Adam is building a culture of retrieval ‘to ensure students conduct lots of retrieval practice in their own time’

This conversation has so many takeaways so I would advise that you listen twice and make sure that you have a pen and paper handy, Adam's thinking really is brilliant.

Get involved and share widely.

Please join our Facebook Group. I would love for you to join and share your takeaways from this episode and engage in discussion with fellow listeners.

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 here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dnleslie

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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3 years ago
1 hour 14 minutes 8 seconds

Becoming Educated
Dunlosky's Strengthening the Student Toolbox with Amarbeer Singh Gill

This week I am joined by Amarbeer Singh Gill. Singh is a lead practitioner of secondary maths and a teacher educator. He blogs at unpackingeducation.wixsite.com and you can find him on twitter @InspiredLearn_

Recently, Singh wrote a brilliant book as part of the In Action series, 'Dunlosky's Strengthening the Student Toolbox in Action' and we discuss the contents in todays episode. Dunlosky's research focussed on study strategies that are regularly employed by our students during their independent study and he ranked them from most to least effective.

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

How Dunlosky's paper impacted on Singh's classroom practice

What we need to know and understand about Dunlosky's research

The strategies that are most effective including practice testing and distributed practice otherwise known as retrieval practice and spacing

The strategies that are least effective including highlighting and re-reading

What we should be teaching our students to do during independent study

This is an enriching conversation Singh and I got so much out of it. Especially, the words of caution that Singh provides near the end.

Get involved and share widely.

Ive just formed a Facebook Group and I would love for you to join and share your takeaways from this episode and engage in discussion with fellow listeners.

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 here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dnleslie

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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3 years ago
52 minutes 12 seconds

Becoming Educated
Ready to Teach: A Christmas Carol with Amy Staniforth & Stuart Pryke

Subject Specific: English

This week welcomes the first subject specific episode of Becoming Educated and I am joined on the interviewing side by Nikki Waite, an Assistant Principal for Teaching & Learning, and an English Teacher.

We explore Ready to Teach: A Christmas Carol with the authors Amy Staniforth & Stuart Pryke.

Stuart Pryke is an English teacher and Teaching and Learning lead in a secondary school just outside of Ipswich, Suffolk. He is a LitDrive regional advocate and has worked with Oak National Academy. He tweets @SPryke2 and blogs at englishteachersnotebook.blogspot.com

Amy Staniforth is an English teacher and Vice Principal for Quality of Education at a rural secondary school in Norfolk. She is also the Research Lead for teaching and curriculum in a multi-academy trust. She tweets @teachals and blogs at thingsshetaught.wordpress.com

In the episode we discuss the following:

How Amy & Stuart navigate the vast hinterland of A Christmas Carol

Is it possible to truly understand the powerful message of The Carol without understanding Dickens himself?

What English can learn from History with regards to Big Questions

The strategy of Read, Re-read and Read Again

Amy & Stuart also shared these links with us from our discussion:

https://www.jstor.org/

https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians

You can buy Ready to Teach: A Christmas Carol from:

John Catt: https://www.johncattbookshop.com/ready-to-teach-a-christmas-carol

Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ready-Teach-Christmas-compendium-knowledge/dp/191526121X

Waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/book/ready-to-teach-a-christmas-carol/stuart-pryke/amy-staniforth/9781915261212

Get involved and share widely.

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 podcast by buying me a coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dnleslie

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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3 years ago
56 minutes 56 seconds

Becoming Educated
An Evidence Informed Journey with Alex Gordon

This week I am joined by Alex Gordon.

Alex is Assistant Principal of Teaching & learning at Chingford Foundation School.

In this episode Alex and I discuss his schools evidence informed journey including:

What this has involved since September 2020

How Alex went about refreshing his schools pedagogical principles

The five strand interconnected model for professional development

How Alex shares best practice in the school

This was a great conversation and there is so much gold for Teaching & Learning leads.

You can follow Alex on twitter @MrAWGordon_

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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 podcast by buying me a coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dnleslie

 


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3 years ago
51 minutes 50 seconds

Becoming Educated
Leading Evidence-Informed Teaching with Rachel Ball

This week I am joined for the first of the Teaching and Learning Lead Series by Rachel Ball. Rachel is Assistant Principal at Co-op Academy Walkden and we discuss how she is leading evidence informed teaching across her school.

In this episode we explore the following:

Why it is important for the teaching and learning lead to be evidence-informed

Why it is important that there is a vision for teaching and learning in a school

How Rachel has helped create a shared language around teaching and learning

How Rachel has made engaging with evidence accessible

How Rachel has optimised performance management to show that staying evidence-informed is important at her school.

I loved exploring Rachel's role as a teaching and learning lead and was particularly impressed by the resource she is creating using Google Classroom, i'm certainly going to borrow that idea.

You can follow Rachel on twitter @MrsBallAP

Get involved and share widely.

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 podcast by buying me a coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dnleslie

Finally, If you would like to sponsor an episode of #becomingeducated then please contact me via email using darren@becomingeducated.co.uk

 


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3 years ago
49 minutes 27 seconds

Becoming Educated
Six Things We Have Learned From Our Podcasts with Arthur Moore and Mike Harrowell

This week's podcast is a little different as I am joined by my friends Arthur and Mike from the T and Teaching podcast for a brilliant crossover episode. 

In this episode we share six things that we have learned from our respective podcasts which are:

Understanding how students learn needs to form a greater part of teacher training and CPD

The teaching profession needs supervision as much as coaching

Teaching well is relationship building

A focus on improving teaching improves almost everything in schools

Teachers don't need a deep understanding of cognitive science in order to effectively embed it in their practices

Schools need to do more to support parent teachers

This was a great discussion with Arthur and Mike and I we would love for you to get involved and keep the conversation going with your thoughts.

Get involved and share widely.

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 podcast by buying me a coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dnleslie

Finally, If you would like to sponsor an episode of #becomingeducated then please contact me via email using darren@becomingeducated.co.uk

 


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3 years ago
1 hour 7 minutes 39 seconds

Becoming Educated
Must Do Better with Harry Hudson

This week I am joined by Harry Hudson, Harry is a History teacher at the West London Free School in Hammersmith, West London. He’s also a freelance writer and has written for a range of publications including The Times, The Telegraph and The Spectator.

In this weeks episode Harry and I discuss the following and so much more:

Why teaching has an image problem

Why money could be an issue in getting good people into teaching

Why the fact that everyone has been to school contributes to the image problem

How the explosion of awareness of cognitive science has enhanced the profession

What the many positives of being a teacher are

How we can change the image of teaching through opening our doors and sharing our bright spots with the public

This was a fascinating discussion with Harry and believe he has kickstarted a discussion into how we can really change the image of our most wonderful profession.

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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 podcast by buying me a coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dnleslie

Finally, If you would like to sponsor an episode of #becomingeducated then please contact me via email using darren@becomingeducated.co.uk

 


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3 years ago
53 minutes 26 seconds

Becoming Educated
Excellent Textbooks and Teacher-Led Lessons with Abby Hughes

This week I am joined by Abby Hughes. Abby is the Assistant Headteacher: Teaching & Learning and Head of Divinity at the West London Free School. In this episode I follow up on Abby's excellent talk for the We Are in Beta Curriculum Thinkers group and we explore the following and so much more:

The 7 principles of a West London Free School Lesson

Divinity, the divinity curriculum and why as ED Hirsch notes ‘No person in the modern world can be considered educated without a basic knowledge of all the great religions of the world’

How Abby and her team teach their Divinity Curriculum using an excellent set of principles 

Why Abby teaches using Textbooks and why myths about using Textbooks are wrong

How Abby prepares for a lesson

This was an excellent insight into an incredibly well thought out curriculum and I was blown away by the preparation and level of thinking that Abby undertakes to ensure that each lesson is high energy and has maximum return on learning.

You can find Abby on twitter @abbyjhughes

Get involved and share widely.

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 podcast by buying me a coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dnleslie

Finally, if you would like to sponsor an episode of the podcast and reach thousands of listeners please contact me using darren@becomingeducated.co.uk

 


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3 years ago
1 hour 5 minutes 4 seconds

Becoming Educated
The Revision Revolution with Helen Howell

This week I am Joined by Helen Howell.  Helen is director of English at the Blue Coat School in Oldham. She previously worked at the Radclyffe School as English AST and lead teacher for literacy, where she was instrumental in developing a knowledge-rich KS3 curriculum and a culture of reading for pleasure.

Helen recently published a great book, alongside Ross Morrision McGill of Teacher Toolkit, 'The Revision Revolution, How to build a culture of effective study in your school' and we explore this in depth in todays episode.

We discuss the following and so much more:

Why students dont revise? Why creating a rich curriculum is the first step towards a revision revolution? Why we should start with staff training? How to kick the revolution off by sharing key revision strategies with year seven or s1 for us in Scotland What teachers can do in lessons to support students learn the content How to train students to support themselves How to engage adults in supporting the revision revolution.

I loved this interview with Helen and the book is fantastic. A must have if you want to supercharge your students learning.

You can find Helen on twitter @cura_dora

Get involved and share widely.

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 podcast by buying me a coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dnleslie

Finally, if you would like to sponsor an episode of the podcast and reach thousands of listeners please contact me using darren@becomingeducated.co.uk

 


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3 years ago
1 hour 4 minutes 58 seconds

Becoming Educated
The Sweet Spot with Michael Chiles

Michael Chiles began as a geography teacher, head of department and senior leader with responsiblity for teaching and learning. Michael is now a head of department at a school in the north west of England. Michael is the author of three books including 'The Sweet Spot: Explaining and Modelling with Precision'

We discuss the following and much much more:

What teachers should consider when planning their classroom layout

What we should consider when planning our wall displays as 'paying attention is a critical cog to enable learning'

Why our PowerPoints, the staple of our lessons, create cognitive overload

The importance of classroom culture

Why it is important to prepare for and be precise with our explanations

You can follow Michael on twitter @m_chiles

Get involved and share widely.

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 podcast by buying me a coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dnleslie

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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3 years ago
1 hour 5 minutes 51 seconds

Becoming Educated
The Great Teaching Toolkit with Professor Rob Coe & Jamie Scott

This week I speak with Professor Rob Coe and Jamie Scott from Evidence Based Education and we explore the Great Teaching Toolkit Project, their online professional development platform which follows on from the Great Teaching Toolkit Evidence Review, published in June 2020.

In this episode we discuss the following and much more:

The Great Teaching Toolkit Evidence Review

What the team have been working on since the review

How schools can use the Toolkit to focus a teachers professional learning

How Student Surveys were designed and how they are used to give valuable insides into the work of a teacher

Why teacher learning should be focussed on one thing for 6 months or more

You can find the Evidence Review, sample materials from the Toolkit and make contact with Rob & Jamie at evidencebased.education

Get involved and share widely.

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 podcast by buying me a coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dnleslie

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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3 years ago
1 hour 8 minutes 34 seconds

Becoming Educated
Closing the Reading Gap with Alex Quigley

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.

Get involved and share widely.

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 podcast by buying me a coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dnleslie

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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3 years ago
1 hour 9 minutes 22 seconds

Becoming Educated
Five Best Bets for Teaching & Learning with Jon Hutchinson
In this episode I speak with Jon Hutchinson, Director of Training and Development at the Reach Foundation. Jon is also a Visiting Fellow at Ambition Institute for their Masters in Expert Teaching programme. Jon has spoken at ResearchEd events and has contributed a superb chapter on Instructional Coaching for the 'ResearchEd Guide to Leadership'.

Jon blogs at www.pedfed.wordpress.com

We explore in depth Jon's thinking behind his 'Five Best Bets for Teaching & Learning' which are:

1. Low Stakes Quizzing

2. Instructional Coaching

3. Sequencing Curriculum

4. Improving Ratio

5. Learning about Cognitive Load Theory

You can read the original post Jon wrote on this here: https://www.teachfirst.org.uk/blog/five-best-bets-improve-teaching-and-learning-year-ahead

You can follow Jon on twitter @jon_hutchinson_

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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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3 years ago
1 hour 15 minutes 28 seconds

Becoming Educated
A Strong Mental Model of How Students Learn with Doug Lemov

In this episode I speak with Doug Lemov, author of Teach Like A Champion 3.0 & The Coach's Guide to Teaching. Co-Author of Teaching in the Online Classroom, Reading Reconsidered and Practice Perfect. Doug is the Managing Director of Uncommon School and leads its Teach Like a Champion team, designing and implementing teacher training based on the study of high-performing teachers.

We explore in depth his thinking behind Chapter 1 of Teach Like A Champion 3.0 and the five principles Doug shares. The five principles are:

Principle 1: Understanding Human Cognitive Structure means building Long Term Memory and managing Working Memory

Principle 2: Habits Accelerate Learning

Principle 3: What Students Attend to Is What They Will Learn About

Principle 4: Motivation is Social

Principle 5: Teaching Well Is relationship Building

You can find Doug on twitter @DougLemov and you can read his excellent blog here: https://teachlikeachampion.com/blog/?s=video

Get involved and share widely.

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 podcast by buying me a coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dnleslie

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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3 years ago
1 hour 7 minutes 57 seconds

Becoming Educated
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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