Beyond Good
Matt Findlay and Femi Adeniran
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!
Episodes
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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!
Sep 7, 2024 • 46min
Reflections and Plans
Matt and Femi reflect on leading departments, the evolving process of implementing coaching and department meetings as colleagues' needs change over time, and turn their thoughts forward to leading culture change, teaching and learning and implementing coaching whole school.
Aug 31, 2024 • 1h 10min
Responsive Coaching - Josh Goodrich
Matt and Femi are joined by Josh Goodrich, author of 'Responsive Coaching', former teacher and senior leader and CEO of steplab.Responsive Coaching https://www.amazon.co.uk/Responsive-Coaching-Evidence-informed-instructional-coaching/dp/1036003213Steplabwww.steplab.co
Aug 17, 2024 • 1h 2min
A Student Perspective - with Lily
Matt and Femi speak to former student Lily about school and learning from the other side of the desk. Their discussion ranges from the impact that a great teacher can have on a student's choices and life, through to accounting for students who are struggling with pastoral issues and even to the teacher recruitment crisis and questions of how to get intelligent people like Lily into the profession.
Aug 10, 2024 • 38min
Checking For Understanding
In this episode Matt and Femi discuss various means and considerations around checking for understanding.
Aug 3, 2024 • 45min
What Have You Seen Working Well?
Femi and I have been visiting a lot of schools over the last few months - some are incredible and get some of the best results in the country and others are not so good! In this episode we share things we've each seen that we thought were effective, and things that we noticed that were not.
Jul 27, 2024 • 59min
'Booklets' with Matt Burnage
Matt Burnage is one of the founding senior leaders of Ark Soane Academy, History teacher, and assistant principal leading on curriculum and assessment. In this episode we do a deep dive into the subject of booklets - what they are, how they encapsulate the curriculum, impact on learning, the ways they are used in lessons, implications for whole school routines, how they are made and developed, implications for department meetings and much much more.
