Podcast Episodes

Mastery and Conceptual Understanding

Season 2 Episode 33

In this episode of the podcast Femi and Matt discuss the ideas of Mastery and 'Conceptual Understanding' in teaching and learning.  The conversation …

2 years, 11 months ago

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Bonus Episode: Behind the Scenes!

Season 2 Episode 32

Welcome to this bonus episode of the Beyond Good podcast!  The idea here was just to offer a little insight into what goes on behind the scenes at Be…

2 years, 11 months ago

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Wellbeing

Season 2 Episode 31

In today’s podcast Femi and Matt discuss Wellbeing.  

After making the important distinction between wellbeing and workload they discuss

-          Att…

2 years, 11 months ago

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Setting and De-escalation

Season 2 Episode 30

In today’s podcast Matt and Femi discuss two main topics which are 'setting', and 'de-escalation'.

In both cases the points raised should be of intere…

3 years ago

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Reflections on the National Behaviour Survey

Season 2 Episode 29

In today’s podcast Femi and Matt dissect the recently published findings of the DFE national behaviour survey.  This is another conversation which is…

3 years ago

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'Experience'

Season 2 Episode 28

Today Femi and Matt discuss teacher effectiveness vs years of service and some issues with the word ‘experience’ which is generally used as a proxy f…

3 years, 1 month ago

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Homework

Season 2 Episode 27

In this episode Matt and Femi dig into the dilemma that is ‘homework’!  Reflecting on their experiences over the years they ask; how effective is it …

3 years, 1 month ago

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Handling Complaints

Season 2 Episode 26

Today Femi and Matt discuss their approaches to handling complaints.  None of this is specific to maths and so the conversation should be relevent fo…

3 years, 1 month ago

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Teacher Quality: A discussion of Dylan Wiliam's Article

Season 2 Episode 25

Today Femi and Matt discuss an article by Dylan Wiliam titled ‘Teacher Quality: why it matters, and how to get more of it’.  In addition to this cent…

3 years, 1 month ago

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CPD!

Season 2 Episode 24

Matt and Femi are in a pensive mood for a  thought-provoking discussion on CPD.  They discuss the good and bad of inset days, utilising skilled pract…

3 years, 2 months ago

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