Dr Nicole Brown

In this webinar celebrating the publication of her latest book Dr Nicole Brown discusses Photovoice Reimagined.

This post offers some recommendations on what to do if teaching involves larger audiences rather than smaller groups.

This podcast is an audio-recording with slides as it was presented on the 25th June 2021 to the fibromyalgia support group Faversham Fibromyalgia Friends.

In this guest post Dr Helen Ross reflects on the exam production line of our current school system.

This article is an example of student-staff collaboration within the community of practice of trainee teachers.

This is my presentation related to a collaborative project at UCL to develop portfolios to become meaningful, external-facing assessments.

This is my contribution to the CSHE Research Festival 2017, which was held in October 2017 at the University of Kent.

The 3 min thesis is a competition, but it helps focussing thoughts and concentrating on what is important. Here is my "3min thesis".

This is my contribution to the Postgraduate Research Festival, the PGFes2016, at the University of Kent.

Many teacher training sessions and professional development courses nowadays link to or culminate in the compilation of portfolios. Portfolios are evidences and resources that are gathered and annotated systematically to provide an overview of the teachers' achievements, career events and areas for development. The process of gathering information for the portfolios is an opportunity to take a step back from everyday work to reposition yourself and reconsider your values, your development and your learning. Here is some help for developing portfolios.

In teacher training there is a heavy focus on the educational context, but does the educational context really matter? Or is there a danger in being too reliant on statistical information relating to the educational context, in which we operate?

Alison Clark and Peter Moss developed their own way of carrying out research with children – the Mosaic approach. The idea behind the Mosaic approach is that researchers collect data through a wide range of means. These are what Clark and Moss consider "individual tiles". It is then the researcher's task to put these individual pieces together to form one big picture, just like many little tiles are formed into one big mosaic.

One of the most daunting aspects for new teachers is to manage behaviour in lessons. The dynamics of the classroom and the teacher's personality are probably key to how much classroom management you will need to do and which strategies you can use. However, there are some basic rules that you should consider and that will help you manage behaviour in your lesson.