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Nearly 30 years in teaching, over a decade teaching teachers. A founder of Michaela. An iconoclast French teacher. A ‘transformational’ head. Called a ‘genius’, and ‘the toughest teacher in the land’.... more
FAQs about BARRY SMITH EDUCATION:How many episodes does BARRY SMITH EDUCATION have?The podcast currently has 80 episodes available.
June 01, 2023More on being a form tutor PART TWOYou can’t build a school on hero teachers or the luck of the draw. That’s not leadership. It’s roulette!...more18minPlay
May 30, 2023Form periods or Assemblies? Assemblies of course!We can’t afford to hand over culture to 35 different teachers every morning. I actually want pupils to spend as little time as possible with their firm tutors....more20minPlay
May 15, 2023Merits for being polite? Really?The ‘reward’ is the relationship. That’s the aim....more14minPlay
May 04, 2023SLANT…are we deliberately misrepresenting one another?I’m very pro SLANT. Does that mean I hate kids? If I were very anti SLANT, would that mean I want chaos?...more20minPlay
April 13, 2023Internal isolation & so much more! 29 minutesIt’s simple stuff but you’ve got to think about whole school culture...more28minPlay
March 28, 2023Defining your vision PART ONE20 minutes. What do you want to see and hear as you walk around school? How you going to get there?...more22minPlay
December 22, 2022More about ‘pace’. How the term is misused. How to inject more ‘pace’. What goes wrong & why.Merry Xmas! Routines. Scripts. Norms. Preemptive teaching. Unapologetically the expert. As old as time. Mais personne n’écoute donc…...more24minPlay
December 11, 2022So many lessons lack pace. It’s a whole school issue. Part 1Lots more to say on this. Some initial ideas....more11minPlay
FAQs about BARRY SMITH EDUCATION:How many episodes does BARRY SMITH EDUCATION have?The podcast currently has 80 episodes available.