Sarah Cottingham is Associate Dean of Learning Design at Ambition Institute and is studying for a MA in Educational Neuroscience.

Kathryn Morgan is Expert Adviser at the Teacher Development Programme, Research Associate at the University of Gloucester and is studying for a MA in Education Leadership.

We discuss Deliberate Practice beginning with what it is and why we need it in education. We explore if it is all about changing teacher habits, the difference between purposeful practice and deliberate practice and its role in Instructional Coaching. Both Kathryn & Sarah also offer up a reading list for listeners to tuck into after listening to the podcast.

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Mark Jesnick is the Assistant Principal for Teaching and Learning at Ark John Keats Academy in Enfield. Mark blogs at https://markmywords1989.wordpress.com/ and you can find him on twitter @JesnickMark.

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Louis Everett is an Assistant Headteacher for Teaching & Learning at the West London Free School. Louis is a History Teacher, former Head of History and Head of Year. Louis completed a Master in Education at the University of Cambridge and during that time has a Research Lead & Whole School teaching & Learning Coach. Louis joined the West London Free School in 2016 as Head of History and oversaw a drastic improvement in results across GCSE & A-Level, created the WLFS History Teaching Conference and was part of the Department for Education Curriculum Project implementing our Key Stage Three curriculum into 7 partner schools around the country.

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Jade Pearce is an Assistant Headteacher with responsibility for Teaching & Learning. She is a subject expert for initial teacher education, an evidence lead in education and passionate about research, pedagogy and continuing professional development. You can follow Jade on twitter @pearcemrs and her wonderful blog can be found at https://mrspearce865924391.wordpress.com/

 

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Josie Mingay is School Improvement Leader for Greenshaw Learning Trust. She has significant experience of driving standards across primary and secondary phases, with a particular focus on literacy and language.

She has designed phonics programmes with national success and has spoken at various educational conferences, including PiXL, ResearchEd, Reading Reform Foundation. Josie regularly delivers bespoke CPD on key themes around the development of language, the impact of literacy on the wider curriculum, the crucial importance of reading, metacognition and motivation.

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Patrice Bain is an educator, speaker and author. Finalist for Illinois Teacher of the Year and a Fulbright Scholar in Russia. She spent 15 of her 25+ year teaching career working with cognitive scientists turning research into learning strategies. She was asked by the Department of Education to work with cognitive scientists to co-author Organising Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning. In addition, Patrice co-authored Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning and most recently Powerful Teaching: A Guide for Parents

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Sam Hall trained as a geography teacher in the North East of England. He now works at the online education company Up Learn, where he spends each day writing scripts for instructional videos. Sam writes and talks about Siegfried Engelmann’s model of Direct Instruction. You can read his blog which is shallteach.wordpress.com.

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James worked as a science teacher for 12 years. He has an MA in person-Centred Education from the University of Sussex and a PhD in Learning to Learn from the University of Cambridge. James’s doctoral thesis is an 8-year evaluation of the Learning Skills Curriculum, the focus of ‘Fear is the Mind Killer’ co-authored with Kate McAllister. James works as a Bespoke programme leader at the Centre of Educational Leadership in the UCL Institute of Education. He is an Associate of Oracy Cambridge and a Founding Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching.

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Dan Hudson is the Assistant Vice Principal including Teaching & Learning at Oasis Academy John Williams in Principal. He started teaching in 2009 and spent a decade at St Peter's Catholic High School in Gloucester. He was a Head of Year for 4 years before moving into SLT as an Associate Vice Principal moving to his role at Oasis Academy John Williams in 2019.

In this episode we unpick his schools Teacher Development Curriculum included their focus on Deliberate Practice.

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Kate Jones is Head of History at The British School Al Khubairat (BSAK) in Abu Dhabi,United Arab Emirates. Originally from Wrexham in North Wales, Kate taught in the UK for six years at Elfed High School before relocating to the UAE in 2016. 

Kate is also a Lead Practitioner specialising in teaching and learning. Kate provides regular training for educators and leaders both in the UK and internationally. Kate has spoken at various educational conferences around the world. Author of Love To Teach: Research and Resources for Every Classroom (2018) and Retrieval Practice: Research and Resources for every classroom (2019). In February 2020 Kate was awarded the GESS Education Mark Duncan Award for Educational Influencer of the Year.

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