Nuggets for teachers 3: Barry Carpenter - Engagement is the key

Nip in the Bud® Podcast - The children's mental health health charity

In these short podcast clips, we offer nuggets of information from our longer podcasts that give advice and quick tips to help you as teachers recognise children’s needs and respond more efficiently, empowering you to adapt teaching effectively.
Barry Carpenter is the UK’s first Professor in Mental Health in Education and is Honorary Professor at universities in the UK, Ireland, Germany and Australia. In July 2020 he was awarded the Distinguished Fellowship of the Chartered College of Teaching , for his leadership of the Education field during the pandemic. He has been awarded an OBE and CBE by the late Queen for services to children with Special Needs.

In this nugget we discuss the meaning of complex needs in schools and the pedagogical tension that arises from this phenomenon.

As teachers, how do we know how all children learn and how to best teach in order to meet the needs of all? Barry Carpenter goes into some depth around the difficulties and delights of teaching a wide range of pupils that make up our class cohorts and how best to do this.

The richest piece of advice he gives us is about teaching engagement. He talks about how trials have shown that engagement is the key indicator for successful learning, it is the ‘...liberation of intrinsic motivation.’ Through this short podcast teachers will understand that if you can motivate the child then you can conquer learning for and with them.
We hope you enjoy listening to this Nip in the bud nugget, why not go back and listen to the whole episode with my guest Barry Carpenter to hear more tips and advice for teaching children effectively.
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1. Nuggets for teachers 3: Barry Carpenter - Engagement is the key (00:00:00)

2. Engaging learners with complex needs (00:01:48)

3. What are complex needs? (00:03:14)

4. Premature babies (00:06:09)

5. How do I teach differently to meet different needs? (00:09:20)

6. Engagement as the liberation of intrinsic motivaiton (00:09:46)

7. How do I engage this child as a learner? (00:12:09)

8. Observation is key (00:13:19)

9. Whatever curriculum we design, the starting point is engagement (00:15:30)

10. Adjusting teaching through differentiation and personalisation (00:16:44)