‘Shaking up’ the Classroom
Overcoming the challenge of differentiation in the classroom. According to Carol Ann Tomlinson, differentiation means “shaking up what goes on in the classroom” to give students “multiple options for… making sense of ideas and expressing what they learn” (Tomlinson, 1)…
Flashcards…The Key to Success?
Job interviews: a near graduate’s biggest fear (that near graduate being me). We all have an image in our minds of what an interview looks like- don’t we? For me, it’s an early morning start (9am to be exact), handshakes,…
A walk in the park
“Ah teaching, it seems like a walk in the park, so I’ll give it a go.” The brave words of a naïve girl going into her final year of undergraduate study who saw the seemingly endless possibilities of the notorious…
Blog posts from AEL students on placement