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Hosted by Matt Findlay and Femi Adeniran · education · EN-GB
A podcast about teaching. We discuss teaching and learning, pedagogy, lessons and classroom practise, management and leadership, teaching of mathematics, training and trainees, mentors and mentoring, behaviour management, being a head of department and running a faculty, SLT and much much more!
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Signup to Generate a PitchA podcast about teaching. We discuss teaching and learning, pedagogy, lessons and classroom practise, management and leadership, teaching of mathematics, training and trainees, mentors and mentoring, behaviour management, being a head of department and running a faculty, SLT and much much more!
Beyond Good is hosted by Matt Findlay and Femi Adeniran. The show has published 163 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Scaffolding support for middle leaders?" (24 October 2026, 34 minutes), "Saying what you actually want to say!" (10 October 2026, 37 minutes), and "QA'ing Books" (3 October 2026, 60 minutes).
Beyond Good publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 40 minutes across 163 episodes.
Booking probability for Beyond Good is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Beyond Good requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Beyond Good's contact route on record: verified email.
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Matt Findlay and Femi Adeniran hosts Beyond Good, an education podcast with 163 episodes published.
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Episode #7
Do meeting proformas handed down from SLT to middle leaders help or hinder? Is a checklist better? How well do SLTs leaders model running high-quality meetings and line management? Matt and Femi discuss.
Episode #5
Femi and Matt discuss what it takes and means to be clear with staff and say what it is that actually want to say!
Episode #4
Matt and Femi discuss issues around QA of books, including the importance of a clear, shared understanding of what a book is for! Amongst much else, they touch on whether there are subject-specific variations, what...
Episode #3
Matt and Femi discuss the terms 'inclusive teaching', 'adaptive teaching' and 'responsive teaching'. The point is also made that great teaching is, by definition, inclusive teaching: if not all of your students are...
Episode #2
Reflecting on a lovely message received from a former student, Matt and Femi discuss what it means to believe in our students and how that belief plays out in our actions and behaviour.
Episode #1
Welcome to Season 4! After brief introductions for new listeners Matt and Femi discuss the first part of Viviane Robinson's book 'Reduce change to increase performance'. In particular they focus on the distinction...
Episode #72
Femi reflects on the last year with one particular class in mind and asks: "Are my lessons challenging enough?"
Episode #71
Femi has been teaching a Science class and shares his approach and reflections with Matt. They discuss 'learning to learn', booklets, AI, rounds of teaching and CFU, shed loads of practise, feedback and self-checking...
Episode #68
Matt and Femi have a chat about teachers using seating plan resets as a strategy, debate breaking down intangible aspects like 'feel' into granular concrete components when coaching, and the role and possible negative...
Episode #67
Matt and Femi talk about coaching, and how teachers working on their craft will often need to stick with a particular focus and practice it with reflection and feedback to master it.
Episode #66
Matt discusses with Femi a recent conversation he had with a teacher that he supports regarding resetting a challenging class in which norms had severely slipped from previous high standards. The conversation will be of...
Episode #65
Matt and Femi discuss economy of language during explanations and the advantages of keeping teacher talk lean. Contact us at: beyondgoodpod@gmail.com
Episode #64
Matt and Femi discuss a couple of really common issues that undermine teachers' ability to deliver powerful, clear and memorable explanations.
Episode #63
Matt and Femi discuss what to do with a comment often heard by the coffee machine... "This class doesn't retain things!" beyondgoodpod@gmail.com
Episode #62
Matt and Femi talk to James Gisby about the challenges and intricacies of teaching History, and what good History lessons could look like.
Episode #61
Matt and Femi discuss why effective learning can often look somewhat boring from the outside, and why that can sometimes be problematic in schools. beyondgoodpod@gmail.com
Episode #60
Matt and Femi discuss the importance of very prompt transition moments in lessons. Reach out by emailing beyondgoodpod@gmail.com
Episode #59
Matt and Femi discuss the pros and cons of group / whole staff PD vs the somewhat more time-consuming approach of coaching, considering how to leverage each one for it's strengths and the symbiosis between the two...
Episode #58
Matt and Femi discuss two topics in this episode - the first is whether there is any merit in having students copy things down into exercise books, or even cutting them out and sticking them in. The second is the...
Episode #57
Matt and Femi discuss the common situation of encouraging students to go back and check their work once they've done all they can on an exam or test paper.
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