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Operation Education · July 23 · 34 min

Ep 002: From Compliance to Buy-In

How can teachers tackle passivity, apathy or unwillingness to participate in the classroom? How do you move a class culture from compliance to genuine buy-in? Pritesh and Neena break this down into 'winning hearts' and 'winning minds'. As teachers, we all want hands flying up, enthusiastic contributions from ALL pupils, not just some, and we want pupils to buy-in to our schools. Whilst there are many elements to this, Pritesh and Neena zoom in on the use of warm, specific, named praise. The power of voice, connecting with pupils and genuine motivation are discussed. We also cover what kind of behaviours to praise, adapting praise for different ages and ponder over how we can ensure we praise quieter pupils. Timestamps 0:07 Wedding Vibes and Classroom Buy-In 3:07 Compliance or Motivation? 5:17 Winning Hearts with Praise 7:42 Warm, Specific, Named Praise 12:48 The Power of Warmth 16:04 Why Specific Praise Works 23:13 Praise Effort, Not Attainment 27:56 Tailoring Praise by Age 30:09 Praise and Healthy Competition Sign up now to receive the weekly Operation Education Briefing: One practice. One pitfall. One principle. bunsenblue.com/briefing Launches Tuesday 1st September 2026. Hosts: Pritesh Raichura and Neena Sharma Operation Education is a Bunsen Blue production. For high quality CPD from Pritesh, visit www.bunsenblue.com/cpd

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How can teachers tackle passivity, apathy or unwillingness to participate in the classroom? How do you move a class culture from compliance to genuine buy-in? Pritesh and Neena break this down into 'winning hearts' and 'winning minds'.

As teachers, we all want hands flying up, enthusiastic contributions from ALL pupils, not just some, and we want pupils to buy-in to our schools. Whilst there are many elements to this, Pritesh and Neena zoom in on the use of warm, specific, named praise. The power of voice, connecting with pupils and genuine motivation are discussed. We also cover what kind of behaviours to praise, adapting praise for different ages and ponder over how we can ensure we praise quieter pupils.

Timestamps

0:07 Wedding Vibes and Classroom Buy-In
3:07 Compliance or Motivation?
5:17 Winning Hearts with Praise
7:42 Warm, Specific, Named Praise
12:48 The Power of Warmth
16:04 Why Specific Praise Works
23:13 Praise Effort, Not Attainment
27:56 Tailoring Praise by Age
30:09 Praise and Healthy Competition

Sign up now to receive the weekly Operation Education Briefing:
One practice. One pitfall. One principle.

bunsenblue.com/briefing

Launches Tuesday 1st September 2026.

Hosts: Pritesh Raichura and Neena Sharma
Operation Education is a Bunsen Blue production.

For high quality CPD from Pritesh, visit www.bunsenblue.com/cpd

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