Operation Education
Hosted by Pritesh Raichura and Neena Sharma. Concrete classroom strategies have the power to transform our teaching practice. Operation Education, a Bunsen Blue production, explores such strategies and connects them to the bigger picture of classroom culture, school leadership and the educational landscape.
Episodes
9 episodes
Ep 008: The First Five Minutes With a New Class
You've never met a class before. They start to arrive at your door. Pritesh and Neena discuss precisely how they would get the class in and into a seating plan, and share mistakes they've experienced to avoid.Seating a new class can be q...
Ep 007: Is Your School Getting Rewards Right?
So many schools have a system where pupils can trade points they earn for rewards. Is this genuinely improving pupil culture and winning hearts? Or are there unintended consequences? Are there alternatives? Pritesh and Neena discuss!Swap...
Ep 006: What's Wrong With Planning Activities?
How can we safeguard against pedagogical fads? Is 'engagement' pupils getting up, having experiences and teaching each other? Or does 'engagement' describe pupils enthralled through teacher exposition and questioning, and engaging in lots of pr...
Ep 005: The Pedagogy We All Fell For
Silent debates, video lessons for bottom sets, poster lessons for cover, market place activities, posters around the room... Pritesh and Neena take a trip down memory lane, recalling classroom practices we were all seduced by earlier in our car...
Ep 004: The Ultimate Exit Routine... It's All About Team
Whilst Pritesh exemplifies each element of a classroom exit routine this week, Neena leans into her alliteration addiction: 'pack up and praise'; 'authority and anticipation'; 'power of pause'. Somebody stop her, please.Teachers often ru...
Ep 003: How to Notice the Invisible Pupils
The loudest pupils can often take up most of a teacher's attention. What can we do in the classroom to ensure that no pupils are overlooked, whilst maintaining a high bar? Pritesh and Neena explain their suggestions.Timetstamps:0:...
Ep 002: From Compliance to Buy-In
How can teachers tackle passivity, apathy or unwillingness to participate in the classroom? How do you move a class culture from compliance to genuine buy-in? Pritesh and Neena break this down into 'winning hearts' and 'winning minds'.As...