Jul 28, 2026 · 26 min · 11 segments
Hello everyone! Personally, I believe this episode to be the best episode of Teach Me, Teacher in a long time. James Nottingham is most known for his work with The Learning Pit, but he has also…
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You have-- Just hearing you speak for, you know, two minutes, you have a positive outlook on the effects that teachers can still have in the classroom and that schools can still have.
And I feel like at least here in, [chuckles] I mean, definitely where I'm at in Texas, but in the United States, there's so much struggle happening.
Is there-- Do you get the sense that what you're talking about, like, it, it, it, things have shifted to where you have this positive bent on everything.
It's you're, you're looking at the research, you're seeing where the, the light, uh, in certain things, and you're talking about meaningful shifts to, to get to different practices.
Uh, do you feel like an island sometimes these days during th- these times of education?
And here in, uh, the UK, we start high school at the age of 11, um, go 11 through to 18.
And, uh, a month after that, my father, who's in the military, and he went off, uh, into combat.
And so I, I was struggling, and I got labeled as a, uh, as a naughty kid, and that label stuck.
Um, but of course, with no qualifications to my name, uh, th- there weren't very many options, and I, I, I went into pig farming and, yeah, I didn't...
So I went to work in a chemical factory, and, uh, six months into that job, the manager called me in and says, "You don't know anything about chemistry, do you?" I went, "No, not really." He says, "Well, why didn't you mention that in interview?" I said, "Well, you never asked." So I, uh, yeah, I bummed around quite a lot, and then I got an opportunity.
You have-- Just hearing you speak for, you know, two minutes, you have a positive outlook on the effects that teachers can still have in the classroom and that schools can still have.
And I feel like at least here in, [chuckles] I mean, definitely where I'm at in Texas, but in the United States, there's so much struggle happening.
Is there-- Do you get the sense that what you're talking about, like, it, it, it, things have shifted to where you have this positive bent on everything.
It's you're, you're looking at the research, you're seeing where the, the light, uh, in certain things, and you're talking about meaningful shifts to, to get to different practices.
Uh, do you feel like an island sometimes these days during th- these times of education?
And here in, uh, the UK, we start high school at the age of 11, um, go 11 through to 18.
And, uh, a month after that, my father, who's in the military, and he went off, uh, into combat.
And so I, I was struggling, and I got labeled as a, uh, as a naughty kid, and that label stuck.
Um, but of course, with no qualifications to my name, uh, th- there weren't very many options, and I, I, I went into pig farming and, yeah, I didn't...
So I went to work in a chemical factory, and, uh, six months into that job, the manager called me in and says, "You don't know anything about chemistry, do you?" I went, "No, not really." He says, "Well, why didn't you mention that in interview?" I said, "Well, you never asked." So I, uh, yeah, I bummed around quite a lot, and then I got an opportunity.
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