Becoming Educated

By Darren Leslie

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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The podcast currently has 97 episodes available.

Becoming Educated episodes:

March 02, 2020 Being Brilliant in the Classroom with Andy Cope
Andy Cope is a qualified teacher, best selling author, happiness expert and recovering academic. Andy is the UKs first ever Dr of Happiness after studying Positive Psychology for his PhD. We discuss Destination Addiction, Pronoia, the 4 minute rule and much much more.
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38min
February 24, 2020 Relearning to Teach with David Fawcett
David Fawcett has taught for oven ten years in English Secondary Schools. He is a speaker, trainer and organiser of multiple teaching conferences including the Teaching & Learning Takeover. His goal is to make teachers more aware of what might work in the classroom by bridging the gap between research and practice and he is also the author of the excellent ‘Relearning to Teach’.
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56min
February 19, 2020 A Refreshing Narrative with David Cameron
David Cameron is a man who has done and seen it all in Scottish education. A former teacher until the early 90’s, he has been the Director of Children's Services for Stirling Council, Head of Education in East Lothian, an Area Manager for a large group of Schools in Fife, among many other roles. He is now a speaker, trainer, mentor, coach and adviser who has delivered at conferences as far afield as TEDx Buenos Aires.

I met David at TedX Clackmannanshire where he spoke passionately about demanding clarity in Education to help teachers cut through the noise and do what they do best, teach.

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January 20, 2020 Slow Teaching with Jamie Thom
Jamie Thom is a full time English Teacher, host of the TES English Teaching Podcast and author of 'Slow Teaching: finding calm, clarity and impact in the classroom’. Jamie is also set to release his new book 'A Quiet Education: Challenging the extrovert ideal in our schools'. Jamie joins me to discuss 'Slow Teaching', teacher wellbeing and provides so insights into his upcoming book.

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36min
January 06, 2020 Every Teacher Needs to be a Leader with Stephanie Peat
Stephanie Peat is a Primary School Teacher who now works as a Lead Specialist of Professional Learning & Leadership at Education Scotland. We discuss what Teacher Leadership means to Stephanie and its importance for all teachers. We look in depth at the Teacher Leadership programme provided by Education Scotland and what participants of the programme can bring back to their classrooms and schools.

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35min
January 06, 2020 Our Ability to Learn is Our Greatest Weapon with Bradley Busch
Bradley Busch is a Chartered Psychologist and a Director at InnerDrive. He co-authored 'The Science of Learning, 77 Studies Every Teacher Needs to Know'. Bradley and I discuss his recent TedX talk, the book and its content and also some of his work on the Guardian Teacher Network. Bradley shares his top 3 studies from the book and offers some practical strategies for helping our young people learn effectively.

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45min
January 06, 2020 What Works in Education with Lee Elliot-Major
In this podcast I am joined by the UK's first Professor in Social Mobility, co-creator of the EEF's Toolkit for Learning & Teaching and co-author of What Works? in Secondary Education, Dr Lee Elliot-Major.

We discuss his career to date, social mobility and what schools can do to tackle this and his new book which he co-authored with Professor Steve Higgins What Works?

Lee also shares his experiences to date and also his wishes for the future of Education.
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39min

FAQs about Becoming Educated:

How many episodes does Becoming Educated have?

The podcast currently has 97 episodes available.

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