How can we improve teacher-happiness and a love of learning in our young people?
Our 96th podcast is with Shafina Iqbal, an A-level psychology teacher and Lego Education lead practitioner and part-time PhD student at Imperial College.
In this podcast, listen to Shafina and Teacher Toolkit founder, Ross McGill discuss:
- Becoming a teacher to give children a better learning experience than she did
- Education in the U.K. versus the Middle East
- Why Shafina started using Lego in her classroom and the 5 Minute Lego plan!
- Balancing teaching and PhD during the lockdown
- The importance of finding a department that aligns with your research
- Being a researcher and a classroom practitioner
- The over-emphasis on retrieval practice
- The day-to-day challenges of being a teacher during COVID and,
- Plagiarism and citation and referencing in the social media era.
Listen to the podcast (28 minutes)
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Shafina is passionate about LEGO in education! Follow her research on Twitter.
