Let me introduce myself - I'm fairly new to teaching, and completely new to blogging. I teach IT in a FE College in Birmingham, mainly to 16-19 year-olds. This is my second year here, before that I taught in Secondary school for twelve months. That's about the summary of my experience.
My primary purpose in creating this blog is is to help me to organise (and more importantly, share) my teaching experiences and ideas. I very much hope that other bloggers may like my posts, and in return share their teaching ideas with me. For so long now, it feels like I have loads of ideas swimming around my head, but apart from the occasional conversation with my colleagues I rarely share them. A blog feels like the perfect place to get these ideas down in writing.
My philosophy for teaching is fairly simple - I try to go for high engagement and variety in teaching methods. I am an advocate for technology enhanced learning, and use technology in my lessons whenever the opportunity arises. I have an academic interest in this too, and am about to start an MSc in Innovation in Learning Technology. I am currently helping to develop my departments VLE, and very much hope to have it up to scratch by the end of this academic year ( a tall order, as anybody working with established staff and a new VLE might recognise).
Thats enough about me now I think, I will return later today with a few ideas that have been milling around my head for a while.
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