From the Pitch to the Classroom: Kit Brown's Playbook for High-Performance Teaching
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
In this special bonus episode in partnership with Get Into Teaching, Jake chats to Kit Brown, a primary school teacher and a semi-professional footballer. Kit has accumulated over 1 million social media followers sharing his passion for teaching and education. He shares the rewards of being a teacher and how the small wins make the hard work worthwhile.
Jake and Kit discuss the skills he has gained in football that he applies to his teaching, including how to build resilience in young people and how he brings a high performance mindset into the classroom. He shares with Jake the creative techniques he uses within the classroom, like rapping about the water-cycle or cutting up his tie to teach the kids about fractions. “Teaching is what you make it… make it creative”.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, welcome along to another episode of the High Performance Podcast. This episode |
| 0:08.2 | brought to you in partnership with Get Into Teaching and to down really pleased to say |
| 0:12.5 | we're joined by a teacher from Hertfordshire who is also a semi-professional footballer. |
| 0:17.2 | Like how can you imagine your teacher being a semi-professional footballer? That makes |
| 0:20.9 | them automatically cool. He's also really heavily involved in social media. He's used it |
| 0:26.4 | to a mass tens of thousands of followers. The question is why does he use it? What does |
| 0:31.2 | it do for him? And why does he think teaching is such an amazing career and delighted to |
| 0:37.2 | welcome kids to the High Performance Podcast? How are you kids? |
| 0:40.3 | Good, thank you, Jake. Thank you for having me on here. |
| 0:42.3 | No worries. First things first, how often do the kids want to talk about football rather |
| 0:46.3 | than get on with their schoolwork? Every single day, every single lesson. They know what |
| 0:51.4 | they're doing as well. What tricks and tips would you give for parents |
| 0:55.6 | who went, because I have the same, in the middle of doing homework and said, my boy would |
| 0:59.0 | just go, Dad, who's on High Performance next week? What's the next game you're doing on |
| 1:05.5 | the football? Because I'm a football host as well. And I'm like, Seb, I know what you're |
| 1:08.9 | doing, mate. You don't want to do your spellings. You're using distraction techniques. What's |
| 1:14.1 | the trick for avoiding getting distracted in your class? Delay, delay, delay. I say, that |
| 1:19.2 | sounds incredible. I'd love to talk about that. Can we do it at break time, please? Not |
| 1:23.4 | in a bit of my maths lesson. It's kind of nice though in some ways, isn't it? Football |
| 1:28.0 | is that common thing that allows you to relate to the kids? For people listening to this |
| 1:31.9 | thinking, maybe teaching is something for me. Do you feel that you have to get on with |
| 1:38.8 | kids to be a teacher, or is it something that you can sort of learn and pick up in the |
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