Mr Firth.
Jordan also
acceptable.
Teacher, comedy creator and speaker from Yorkshire. More than eleven years in classrooms. Plenty of material.
Classroom first.
Everything else
grew from there.
I’ve spent more than eleven years in primary education as a class teacher, year group leader and mentor to trainees and ECTs.
I’m also an education creator and, once upon a time, a BBC Bitesize presenter. Online, you might know me for the sketches. The teacher doing a post-match interview. The classroom moment that feels suspiciously familiar.
That work starts with the same thing as my teaching: noticing people, understanding what matters to them and finding a way to make it connect.
A room you
want to be part of.
My classrooms have had clear routines, high expectations and firm boundaries. They have also had guitars, animal adoption, shared songs, recurring jokes and, on one occasion, a fish tank, some stick insects and a pair of Giant African Land Snails named Rick & Morty.
Those things were never the method. They were signs that the room had developed an identity using things already present in me and the children.
Children deserve a classroom they love being part of. Teachers deserve to love being part of it too.
On your feed.
In your inbox.
At your event.
I work with brands and education organisations on content that belongs in the lives of teachers and families. I write Help Me, I’m A Teacher! and I’m developing CPD and speaking around the professional identity of teachers.