by carolina | May 19, 2021 | TILE Talk Reflection
With great anticipation we welcomed Shabana Basij-Rasikh to our TILE Network speaker series. Shabana is the co-founder and president of the only boarding school for girls in Afghanistan, the School of Leadership Afghanistan (SOLA). In her inspirational talk, she made...
by carolina | Apr 22, 2021 | TILE Talk Reflection
We had the pleasure to hear Dr Bryan Dewsbury’s perspective on equity in education at our last TILE Network seminar. Bryan emphasied the importance of building relationships with students in the classroom. While he acknowledges that teaching of content and...
by carolina | Mar 26, 2021 | TILE Talk Reflection
In this talk, Dr Julie Hulme, shared her experience when she started university and how she felt like ‘fish out of water’. During the talk the audience shared similar experiences and we also heard of ‘duck to water’ experiences. Transitions...
by carolina | Mar 2, 2021 | TILE Talk Reflection
This TILE talk was dedicated to retrieval practice and how to implement that strategy in classroom teaching. We welcomed Kate Jones, Head of History at The British School Al Khubiarat in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, who is also a book author, consultant, and...
by carolina | Nov 30, 2020 | TILE Talk Reflection
On 24 November 2020, we had the pleasure to jointly organise an Explorathon 2020 webinar with the Scottish Network for Able Pupils (SNAP) on “More Than 1+1: Supporting Highly Able Maths Minds In The Classroom”. The event featured speakers from across...
by carolina | Nov 26, 2020 | TILE Talk Reflection
In this TILE Webinar on “Exam Anxiety: Is It Something to Worry About?”, Prof David Putwain shared insight into the role of exam anxiety for performance and for mental health in students. He presented eye-opening data that show that students reporting high...
