Femi Adeniran's guest appearances

Femi Adeniran

Mr Barton Maths Podcast

Tips for Teachers

OwlTail

Matt Findlay

Experienced heads of department, Femi Adeniran and Matt Findlay, join me for an epic conversation about leading a maths department. We cover everything from consistency versus autonomy, departmental meetings, handling parental complaints and allocating sets. You can access links to the resources discussed, time-stamps and videos on the podcast show-notes page here: https://www.mrbartonmaths.com/blog/168-how-to-lead-a-maths-department-with-femi-adeniran-and-matt-findlay/  Time-stamps:  Matt's favourite failure (06:26) Femi's favourite failure (10:38) Matt's route into becoming a head of department (15:45) Femi's route into becoming a head of department (18:17) How many year's classroom teaching should you have before becoming a head of department? (21:02) How strong a teacher does the head of department need to be? (24:41) What does your timetable as a head of department look like? (28:43) Do you find you are teaching more these days than 5 years ago? (32:38) Does your teaching suffer with all the other things you have to give attention to? (40:00) How does your workload compare to a teacher with a full time-table? (46:39) How often would you be pulled out of a lesson to deal with something? (52:13) How do you balance the need for consistency across your department with a desire for teacher autonomy? (56:46) What are the non-negotiables that members of your team have to follow? (1:32:54) What do your departmental meetings look like? (1:57:13) How do you ensure good practice is shared around the department? (2:21:51) How do you support less experienced colleagues, non-specialists, those who are struggling? (2:23:16) How do you deal with directives from SLT that you don't agree with? (2:41:26) What do you do to help non-specialists (particularly SLT) understand what the characteristics of high-quality T&amp;L in maths are? (2:48:37) How do you deal with difficult members of the department who are reluctant the make changes? (2:54:59) How do you deal with parental complaints? (3:00:48) How do you allocate teaching sets? (3:05:19) Final reflections (3:19:37) Craig's takeaways (3:32:42) 

Experienced heads of department, Femi Adeniran and Matt Findlay, join me for an epic conversation about leading a maths department. We cover everything from consistency versus autonomy, departmental meetings, handling parental complaints and allocating sets. You can access links to the resources discussed, time-stamps and videos on the podcast show-notes page here: <a href="https://www.mrbartonmaths.com/blog/168-how-to-lead-a-maths-department-with-femi-adeniran-and-matt-findlay/" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.mrbartonmaths.com/blog/168-how-to-lead-a-maths-department-with-femi-adeniran-and-matt-findlay/</a> Time-stamps: <ol> <li>Matt's favourite failure (06:26)</li> <li>Femi's favourite failure (10:38)</li> <li>Matt's route into becoming a head of department (15:45)</li> <li>Femi's route into becoming a head of department (18:17)</li> <li>How many year's classroom teaching should you have before becoming a head of department? (21:02)</li> <li>How strong a teacher does the head of department need to be? (24:41)</li> <li>What does your timetable as a head of department look like? (28:43)</li> <li>Do you find you are teaching more these days than 5 years ago? (32:38)</li> <li>Does your teaching suffer with all the other things you have to give attention to? (40:00)</li> <li>How does your workload compare to a teacher with a full time-table? (46:39)</li> <li>How often would you be pulled out of a lesson to deal with something? (52:13)</li> <li>How do you balance the need for consistency across your department with a desire for teacher autonomy? (56:46)</li> <li>What are the non-negotiables that members of your team have to follow? (1:32:54)</li> <li>What do your departmental meetings look like? (1:57:13)</li> <li>How do you ensure good practice is shared around the department? (2:21:51)</li> <li>How do you support less experienced colleagues, non-specialists, those who are struggling? (2:23:16)</li> <li>How do you deal with directives from SLT that you don't agree with? (2:41:26)</li> <li>What do you do to help non-specialists (particularly SLT) understand what the characteristics of high-quality T&amp;L in maths are? (2:48:37)</li> <li>How do you deal with difficult members of the department who are reluctant the make changes? (2:54:59)</li> <li>How do you deal with parental complaints? (3:00:48)</li> <li>How do you allocate teaching sets? (3:05:19)</li> <li>Final reflections (3:19:37)</li> <li>Craig's takeaways (3:32:42)</li> </ol>

#168 How to lead a maths department with Femi Adeniran and Matt Findlay

Maths teacher, Femi Adeniran, joins us on the Tips for Teacher podcast to share his 5 tips: 1. Teach behaviour lesson one by making ‘developing the right classroom culture’ your objective for the early lessons (02:56) 2. Focus on explanations not resources (14:17) 3. Teach in small chunks and fool kids into doing lots of work initially (23:17) 4. Have your coffee whilst sitting in the classrooms of effective teachers (31:28) 5. Provide answers so pupils can check their work in real-time (42:16) Access the show notes and audio transcription of the episode, plus a load more audio and video tips here: tipsforteachers.co.uk

Maths teacher, Femi Adeniran, joins us on the Tips for Teacher podcast to share his 5 tips: 1. Teach behaviour lesson one by making ‘developing the right classroom culture’ your objective for the early lessons (02:56) 2. Focus on explanations not resources (14:17) 3. Teach in small chunks and fool kids into doing lots of work initially (23:17) 4. Have your coffee whilst sitting in the classrooms of effective teachers (31:28) 5. Provide answers so pupils can check their work in real-time (42:16) Access the show notes and audio transcription of the episode, plus a load more audio and video tips here: <a href="https://tipsforteachers.co.uk/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">tipsforteachers.co.uk</a>