Femi and Matt discuss why improving our teaching (or anything) can be so difficult, and how that influences their thinking around coaching and PD.

Femi and Matt ponder the all too common phrase "people just aren't doing it"!

Femi and Matt discuss the concept of 'disagree then commit' in the context of working in a school team or SLT.

Matt and Femi talk to Peter Lee about how he has managed to found and maintain a school which not only achieves outstanding results, but also has not had any supply bought in for over 8 years!  Among many other things they discuss workload, behaviour, timetabling and lesson structures.

Femi shares his reflections and lessons learnt with Matt on the last 6 months of doing regular coaching - several times per week.

Prompted by Pritesh's tweet regarding the number of observations completed and feedback given in the autumn term, Femi and Matt discuss attitudes and culture around drop-ins.

Femi and Matt wrestle with the concept of students who refuse instructions and what schools can do about it.

Femi and Matt's discussion is prompted by an article of the same name:
https://thinkingflexibly.com/2024/10/18/the-lost-art-of-planning/

They discuss the pros and cons of planning lessons, designing lesson sequences and preparing resources from scratch vs having off-the-shelf schemes of work, resources and teaching powerpoints.

Matt and Femi discuss explicit teaching (direct instruction), questioning, AfL and much more!

Matt and Femi talk to Katharine Birbalsingh, founding member and head teacher of the Michaela Community School in Wembley Park.