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Naheeda Maharasingham on improving outcomes for disadvantaged students
Portrait of a Londoner
English - October 08, 2020 04:30 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBPersonal Journals Society & Culture News News Commentary south-east london community horniman Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Portrait of a Londoner is a South-East London based podcast and in this mini-series we will be talking to people who live in London about racism within the UK education system.
In this episode we speak to Naheeda Maharasingham who is headteacher at Rathfern Primary School, a diverse inner London primary. As head Naheeda took the school from special measures to outstanding.
https://www.rathfern.lewisham.sch.uk/team-member/naheeda-maharasingam/
Naheeda is also passionate about research in education and in particular the value of metacognition. https://www.lewishammarg.co.uk/443808729
Naheeda talks to us about:
Her early childhoodHer political awakening at universityMetacognition in practice and the Lewisham metacognition group https://www.lewishammarg.co.uk/443808729Her work with the Chartered College of teaching https://chartered.college/Her hopes for the futureIf you are a new listener to Portrait of a Londoner, we would LOVE to hear from you!
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