Article: Making sense of cultural bumps – Supporting GTAs with teaching
This article reports on a study with over 100 Graduate Teaching Assistants exploring experiences of ‘cultural bumps’ at a UK University.
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Ice breakers: starting lessons or meetings
This post is about ice breakers, and how we can plan for starting a session effectively without distracting from our contents.
LEGO® reflections in Higher Education
This is a guest post on the Advance HE website published after I had delivered a successful workshop at the HEA Annual Conference demonstrating how to use LEGO reflections in higher education.
Guest post: Creativity in the Curriculum – An Exam Production-Line
In this guest post Dr Helen Ross reflects on the exam production line of our current school system.
Dr Nicole Brown
Please, download my full CV from here. I am Director of Social Research & Practice and Education Ltd. and Associate Professor in Education at the UCL Institute of Education, London. At UCL, I currently lead the modules “Literacy,...
Article: Increasing students’ engagement with reflections
This article seeks to explore the nature and depth of students’ engagement by providing an example from a teacher education programme.
Teaching international students
I have been asked about strategies for teaching international students. In principle, we should continue focussing on group work and sharing experiences and thus building collaborative, reflective practices. So the strategies I am presenting here for...
Article: Partnership in learning
This paper outlines two distinct staff-student collaborations and how such a partnership may innovate teaching practices.
Article: Partnership in teacher education
This article is an example of student-staff collaboration within the community of practice of trainee teachers.
Ableism in the curriculum
In this post, I explain what ableism in the curriculum is, and what we as teachers can do to counter ableism in the curriculum.
More messages from the classroom
We need to think about what the messages are we send. So here are some more messages from the classroom.
Providing feedback for learning
Providing feedback is important to improve learning. So here are some examples for providing feedback that foster students' engagement.
What’s your message?
In this post I am asking "What's your message?". This is about teachers' behaviours and attitudes and how students perceive these.
Strategies for learning names of students
Strategies for learning names at the beginning of an academic year, and reasons for why learning names is important.
Guest post: So we are all gifted and talented
Having read "Peak" guest blogger Craig Brown argues that gifted and talented provision needs to be reviewed.
Book review: Doing research in education – Theory and practice
This review is about the book "Doing research in education". A fabulous resource and introduction to doing research in education.