Picks of the week from across the Twitter-sphere
'Picks of the week' brings you our favourite educational discovers from the gold-mine that is Twitter.
The beginning of any new term is a busy and sometimes stressful time for many teachers. As our classrooms begin to welcome back students for the first time since the move to distance learning do to Covid-19, this is a new term like no other.cFor many teachers this term, it will their first working abroad in UAE on top of all the other challenges facing educators right now. We loved this week’s #LearnLive with Olly Lewis and Mark Anderson, “How to survive your first year teaching in the UAE.” The first episode of series 2 was packed full of brilliant tips, insight and ideas and support to help any new to UAE teachers. If this is your first term teaching in the UAE, or there is someone at your school whose first term it is, the full episode is available to watch here.
Amongst other things, distance learning has provided us with a unique opportunity to analyse and evaluate different teaching methods. This blog post from Australian educator Kath Murdoch, @kjinquiry, delves a little deeper into the Inquiry Method of teaching within the setting of remote learning. You can check it here.
Nobody is going to judge you if your twitter feed has filled up with celebrity Tic Toc videos over the past few months. Luckily for you @MrAndiPrice has completed his third edition of top UAE based educators to follow on #Edutwitter this week to readdress the balance a bit. You can find the interactive PDF with links here.
The can-do attitude and creativity of teachers all over the world has been and will continue to be crucial in providing students with as normal and high-quality learning experience as possible. We loved this creative solution to normalise social distancing on @EdArabia this week - https://twitter.com/edarabia/status/1298248687722860547
We’ll end up with a bit of fun this week, which I’m sure everyone will appreciate after another week’s hard work back at school. We recognised a few of @kyronhamilton2’s characters, so we are sure you will too. This was our favourite, shared by on #EduTwitter - https://twitter.com/H_Miss88/status/1294717482524123137
