🎓 Professor Prof Matt O'Leary shares insights from our FE+ Skills Collective on quality teaching: ✨ Subject expertise 🤝 Strong relationships 🚀 Collaboration 💡 Tech integration Read more: fenews.co.uk/exclusive/what… #FESkillsCollective

‘I didn’t really plan it’: what Ali told me when we rewatched The Rumble in the Jungle. Fantastic piece of writing as always by Thomas Hauser, the best boxing writer out there by a country mile! theguardian.com/sport/2024/oct…

Reflecting on the progress of doctoral students over this year, TIME is the key enabler & barrier. Naturally, never having enough time is a given for p/t ss, but how that limited time is conceptualised, protected & used is crucial to making progress & managing doctoral work

Increasingly spending less time on here. Going forward, you're more likely to find updates from me on LinkedIn & BSKY @profmattoleary.bsky.social

My very promising ECT can’t see a future in teaching. Says it’s just too intense. What’s the point of it all if we can’t keep staff? It wasn’t like this when I entered teaching. What a complete mess we’ve made of teaching and it’s the children left to suffer the consequences.

It's days like this that make me thankful to be alive. Absolutely glorious weather!

🔔NEW PROJECT AWARD🔔 Delighted that our QAA application has been one of the 18 successful projects selected for funding ! Title of our project: “Supporting flexible pathways and effective student transitions in college-based higher education”, qaa.ac.uk/news-events/ne…

Empowering Practitioners’ Professional Learning Through Unseen Observation | This is a really interesting article by Prof Matt O'Leary Birmingham City University unpacks an innovative “unseen observation” project at Walsall College FE News fenews.co.uk/exclusive/empo…

Unseen Observation: A Journey from Traditional to Trust-Based Teaching | This is the the second in a series exploring Unseen Observations in education, David Turner and Sarah Cattell from Walsall College FE News fenews.co.uk/exclusive/unse… #UnseenObservations #CPD

This dog never fails to bring a smile to my face! Absolutely love him! #lovespaniels #spanielsarethebest

Unseen Observation | Reflection and Empowerment | This is part 3 of a cool mini series from Walsall College This week's installment is from Louise Elsby and Kelly Bunce from Walsall College. FE News fenews.co.uk/skills/unseen-… #cpd #unseenobservation

Another gorgeous day for Leo's Saturday six miler

In the fourth article of this series, Claire Curry from Walsall College discusses the impact that "Unseen Observation" had on her. Read her journey here: fenews.co.uk/exclusive/chan…

TEDH Project Final Workshop - Supporting the Digital Transformation of Teacher Education in Vietnam by Creating a Teacher Educators' Digital Hub.

TEDH Project Dissemination Event at Hue University of Education, Vietnam. The project partners are Birmingham City University, Hue University of Education, Vinh University, Viettel Company, and the British Council in Vietnam. youtu.be/ArRC_xiWbLk

🔔 NEW ARTICLE 🔔 'A Systematic Review of Reciprocal Peer Observation in Higher Education', co-authored with Mariona Corcelles Seuba, Maite Ortiz & David Duran from Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona & Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: tandfonline.com/eprint/FNMTP5I…

Check out the 5th article in our unseen observations series! Mozz Baker aka The Construction Tutor from Walsall College breaks down "unseen observations", a game-changer for classroom feedback. Check out his full article here: fenews.co.uk/exclusive/unse… #TeachingInnovation

A Powerful Alternative for Teaching Development | FE News fenews.co.uk/fe-voices/a-po… This is a great article by Keri Birch, Quality Development Coach Walsall College #TeacherDevelopment #CIPD #UnseenObservation