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This episode we’re speaking with Peps McCrea. Peps is the Dean of Learning Design at Ambition Institute, overseeing and designing programmes for teachers and teacher educators. He has years of experience as a teacher, school leader, and senior lecturer in teacher education.
And today we’re talking about Pep’s absolutely fantastic book, Motivated Teaching. It’s all about that HUGE question that’s ever-present in teachers’ minds, ‘How can I motivate my students?’, and it doesn’t disappoint.
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I know that this is a pretty big claim, but in terms of insights per number of words, I reckon this is the best book that I’ve ever read. And you’ll hear in this podcast just how Peps managed to go from 200,000 words worth of notes summarising the insights from the research on motivation, to the 10,000 words that comprise this ultra-concise book.
And at the end of the podcast, Peps and I turn from the topic of motivating students, to motivating ourselves, and share a bit about our own habits, routines, and current projects and goals in what I hope is an engaging addition to the usual education-focussed content.
Links/resources mentioned in the show
- Mentioned in the course of the show
- Book: The ape that understood the universe. Steve Stuart Williams
- Ambition institute
- The Learning Curriculum – Ambition Institute (Harry Fletcher-Wood's Masters group make resources each year)
- Step lab: Josh Goodrich on instructional coaching
- Feldon paper: Cognitive Load as Motivational Cost
- The text app that Peps uses to write: Folding Text
- Tweeters
- EDu books
- Also see Ollie's book: Cognitive Load Theory in Action
- Get a signed copy here
- Australia – Woodslane Publishing
- UK – John Catt Publishing UK
- US – John Catt US
- Everywhere else – (See your country’s Amazon store)
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