Beyond Good
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!
Latest episodes
Dec 28, 2024 • 37min
Front-loading Your Explanations
Matt and Femi discuss explicit teaching (direct instruction), questioning, AfL and much more!
Nov 30, 2024 • 1h 9min
Katharine Birbalsingh
Matt and Femi talk to Katharine Birbalsingh, founding member and head teacher of the Michaela Community School in Wembley Park.
Nov 23, 2024 • 1h 8min
Barry Smith on Classroom Teaching
Following on from their video analysis of his lesson, Matt and Femi talk to Barry Smith about some of his principles for classroom teaching. Starting from a lense of MFL teaching, we extract the general pedagogical principles that Barry believes lead to exceptional outcomes in the classroom.
Nov 16, 2024 • 49min
Metacognition with Nathan Burns
Matt and Femi chat to metacognition enthusiast Nathan Burns about metacognition, knowledge, knowledge organisers and much much more.Check out Nathan's resources on his website:https://www.mrmetacognition.com/
Nov 9, 2024 • 40min
The Enactment Gap & Developing Teachers
Femi and Matt discuss the enactment gap - teasing apart what it is exactly, diagnosing solutions to the problem and then get into the pragmatism of supporting teachers to improve elements of their practice - trying to figure out when and how to intervene if a colleague is struggling with students during unstructured time.
Nov 2, 2024 • 1h 3min
Q3 Academy Langley & Participation Ratio
Femi tells Matt about his recent visit to another high performing school - this time Q3 Academy Langley in the West Midlands.This brings up the topics of participation and thinking ratio - leading to a spirited discussion about 'pair talk', 'everybody writes' and other approaches to increasing thinking and participation.
Oct 5, 2024 • 32min
Thinking about Professional Development
Femi talks to Matt about how he is now thinking about PD - from individual all the way to whole-school.
Sep 28, 2024 • 36min
Duties and Interactions with Students
Matt and Femi discuss duties, handling pupils, being authentic, leadership, supporting colleagues and much more!
Sep 21, 2024 • 46min
Lesson Analysis: Barry Smith Teaching French
See the video podcast on youtube.Video Lesson Analysis: Barry Smith Teaching Frenchhttps://youtu.be/qs0S4sYvBZ0?feature=sharedBarry's Full French Lessonhttps://youtu.be/WtO1YWhwAGE?feature=sharedDoug Lemov's Field Noteshttps://teachlikeachampion.org/tag/barry-smith/
Sep 14, 2024 • 47min
Miriam Hussain on Behaviour and Whole-School Systems
Matt and Femi talk to Miriam Hussain about whole-school systems for behaviour, for teaching and learning, about SLT, the vision of the head teacher and much more!
