How to Build an Effective Professional Development Environment

Peps McCrea makes his third appearance on the podcast, this time to take a deep dive into how we can be more evidence-informed as teachers. We discuss his process for identifying and summarising key research finds, and then discuss some key pieces of research and their implication for the classroom. I learned so much from this one. For links to the resources discussed in the episode and videos of our conversation please visit the episode show-notes page here: https://www.mrbartonmaths.com/blog/how-to-be-more-evidence-informed-with-peps-mcrea/

Time-stamps

1. How does Peps find good quality research to share with teachers? (08:44)
2. How does Peps summarise research so teachers can quickly digest and apply it? (14:29)
3. What is a piece of research we both believe in, but wish was not true? (21:53)
4. Willpower is overrated (48:20)
5. Consistency before challenge (59:26)
6. Interruptions leave a wake (1:07:04)
7. Mind your modes (1:12:47)
8. What's happening in AI right now, and what does it mean for education? (1:23:33)
9. Coaching chat! (1:37:23)
10. Peps' new book (1:49:58)
11. My takeaways (1:51:57)