Craig Barton interviews guests from the wonderful world of education about their approaches to teaching, educational research and more. All show notes, resources and videos here: https://www.mrbartonmaths.com/blog/
Peps McCrea makes his third appearance on the podcast, this time to take a deep dive into how we can be more evidence-informed as teachers. We discuss his process for identifying and summarising key research finds, and then discuss some key pieces of research and their implication for the classroom. I learned so much from this one. For links to the resources discussed in the episode and videos of our conversation please visit the episode show-notes page here: https://www.mrbartonmaths.com/blog/how-to-be-more-evidence-informed-with-peps-mcrea/
Time-stamps
- How does Peps find good quality research to share with teachers? (08:44)
- How does Peps summarise research so teachers can quickly digest and apply it? (14:29)
- What is a piece of research we both believe in, but wish was not true? (21:53)
- Willpower is overrated (48:20)
- Consistency before challenge (59:26)
- Interruptions leave a wake (1:07:04)
- Mind your modes (1:12:47)
- What's happening in AI right now, and what does it mean for education? (1:23:33)
- Coaching chat! (1:37:23)
- Peps' new book (1:49:58)
- My takeaways (1:51:57)
Episode sponsors
This episode of the Mr Barton Maths Podcast is kindly supported by Oxford University Press’s new Key Stage 3 maths curriculum called Mosaic.
You can find out more by searching for Oxford Smart Mosaic or visiting here
Episode details
Peps McCrea specialises in helping teachers get better. One of the ways he does this is to take research and make it accessible to teachers so they can put the active ingredients into action in the classroom. I wanted to dig into Peps’ process for doing that, then discuss five of my favourite ideas he has shared in this way, and then dig into Peps’ work on instructional coaching as part of his role at Steplab.
Here are the five ideas we discussed, together with the link to Peps’ original Snack or thread:
- Willpower is overrated
- Consistency before challenge
- Interruptions leave a wake
- Mind your modes
- What’s happening in AI right now, and what does it mean for education?
Time-stamps
- How does Peps find good quality research to share with teachers? (08:44)
- How does Peps summarise research so teachers can quickly digest and apply it? (14:29)
- What is a piece of research we both believe in, but wish was not true? (21:53)
- Willpower is overrated (48:20)
- Consistency before challenge (59:26)
- Interruptions leave a wake (1:07:04)
- Mind your modes (1:12:47)
- What’s happening in AI right now, and what does it mean for education? (1:23:33)
- Coaching chat! (1:37:23)
- Peps’ new book (1:49:58)
- My takeaways (1:51:57)
Videos
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Stuff from Peps
- On Twitter, Peps is @pepsmccrea
- His website is pepsmccrea.com
- His first book is Lean Lesson Planning
- His second book is Memorable Teaching
- His third book is Motivated Teaching
- His new book is Developing Expert Teaching
- You can sign up for Peps’ weekly Evidence Snacks newsletter here
- Peps’ coaching platform is Steplab
- Peps first appeared on my podcast to discuss memorable teaching and then again to discuss motivation
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