2020-10-02
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.
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2020-06-15
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. Nicole Brown facilitated an interactive workshop at the recent...
2020-06-04
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.
2020-05-03
Dr Nicole Brown
Please, download my full CV from here. I am Director of Social Research & Practice and Education Ltd. and Lecturer in Education and Academic Head of Learning and Teaching at the UCL Institute of Education, London, where I currently lead the module...
2019-11-11
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...
2018-04-09
Using creative methods to support well-being amongst PhD students
This workshop provides attendees with reflective tools to help PhD students understand their innermost emotions, concerns and needs, which is a first step towards developing strategies for well-being.
2018-04-09
Partnership in teacher education
This article is an example of student-staff collaboration within the community of practice of trainee teachers.
2018-02-19
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.
2017-02-01
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.
2017-01-28
Providing feedback for learning
Providing feedback is important to improve learning. So here are some examples for providing feedback that foster students' engagement.
2016-12-30
Learning from the Korean context
This post shows the Korean educational context and how I have discovered that you can be half-way around the world, and yet nothing changes.
2016-11-29
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.
2016-11-07
Presentation from the SEDA conference
This is about my contribution to the SEDA conference in November 2016, which was about aspects of the Secondary Teacher Education Programme.
2016-10-30
Presentation from the KSSEE conference
The KSSEE (Korean Society for the Study of Elementary Education) had invited me to Seoul, South Korea, to give a talk about ICT in the Primary Curriculum in the UK.
2016-09-21
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.
2016-08-26
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.