Between Two Psychs with Dr Adam McCartney and Mike Lane
In this podcast Adam and Mike address all your education questions. They show the power of thinking psychologically can have on resolving everyday issues within education, learning and in raising happy children.
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Adaptive Teaching: Moving Beyond Labels to Remove Barriers to Learning (opens the original)
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What does adaptive teaching really mean, and how can teachers move beyond labels to understand the barriers affecting learning? In this episode of Between Two Psychs , I’m joined by Andrew Young, secondary school teacher, co-director of a teaching school hub and author of Adaptive Teaching . We explore what adaptive teaching means in practice and why focusing on barriers rather than labels can change how teachers understand and support pupils. We discuss the difference between proactive and reac
Reflective Practice: The Skill You Need to Become a Psychologist (opens the original)
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What makes reflective practice different for a psychologist, and how can psychological theory change the way we understand what we see? In this episode, I explore reflective practice as a core skill in psychology. Rather than simply asking what happened, reflection involves critically examining professional experiences, assumptions and actions, and using that thinking to inform what we do next. The discussion looks at how psychologists can use theory to interrogate situations, consider different
The Skill Underpinning Psychology (opens the original)
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What does reflective practice really look like, and how can psychology move from theory into everyday practice? In this episode o f Between Two Psychs , I’m joined by Lois Harreld , a trainee educational psychologist, to explore her journey into educational psychology and why reflective practice has been such a core part of her experience. We discuss how Lois’s experiences across alternative provision, youth work, mainstream education and specialist SEND settings helped shape her passion for psy
Why Schools Misunderstand Behaviour (opens the original)
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When I was asked to support a school in crisis, the story everyone was telling centred around two children. The belief was simple: if we could fix their behaviour, everything else would improve. But what I found was something very different. In this episode of Between Two Psychs, I share how I worked with a primary school where staff were on the verge of burnout, leadership had broken down, morale was low, and relationships had become fractured. Rather than focusing on changing the children, I e
How to Build a School-Wide Culture of Safeguarding (opens the original)
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Safeguarding is often seen as policies, procedures, and compliance. But what if the strongest safeguarding cultures are built on something much deeper? In this episode of Between Two Psychs , we're joined by Delyth Lynch , Director of Safeguarding at Wellington College and author of Beyond Compliance . Together, we explore why safeguarding should never be reduced to a checklist, and how values, relationships, leadership, and culture create environments where children and young people genuinely f
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