I’m officially a
#Strathclyder
🏫👨🏻💻👓💼
@StrathEDU
| staff card & new laptop collected; new staff induction week almost completed, all intro e-modules passed, now ➡️ research staff induction, getting familiar with courses’ materials & developing a new module for our MSc TESOLIC
A healthy, happy and prosperous Year of the Ox 🥰🧧to all our Chinese students. The Ox is known for strength, determination and diligence in Chinese culture.🐂 May the New Year steer you towards academic success.
#YearoftheOx
@uwslanguages1
What!? 😱🤓🥳 I’ve received another nomination in the 2021 student-led Teaching Awards in the category Personal Tutor of the Year | it turns out Pedagogy of Care is a thing! Reach out to your students to ensure they’re ok, it really matters!
@EdUniStudents
#CelebratingTogether
I'm over the moon my last year's
@StrathEdu
#StrathTESOL
MSc
#TESOL
dissertation student Mathilde Smith received SPECIAL COMMENDATION (a kind of silver medal) from
@BritishCouncil
Master's Dissertation Awards 22-23 for her dissertation! Congrats! 🎇👏😀
Feeling privileged to have been nominated by
@EdUniStudents
for the 2021 student-led Teaching Awards in category Personal Tutor of the Year. Working extra hard and being empathetic does pay off! I’m over the moon! Thank you my personal tutees 🎉🙌🏼🙏🏼
#CelebratingTogether
I travelled to Gdańsk, Poland this weekend to see my family (I haven’t seen for over a year). Love being back home. Now, tuning in to welcome our new
@StrathEDU
#BAEducationTESOL
and
#MScTESOLIC
students from my bro’s garden before flying back to Scotland tomorrow
So, I based myself in the new
@UniStrathclyde
Learning and Teaching Building after teaching today. Such wonderful space for working! I’ll be working from here on a regular basis
@StrathEDU
#StrathTESOL
🎉 Exciting news! My PhD student, Eyad, just got in touch to say he landed a job at The University of Jordan! Also, our journal article "Exploring Barriers and Facilitators of ICT in English Pronunciation Instruction” has been accepted by
@PedreJournal
, time to celebrate 🔥
Engaging in an enlightening discussion with a panel of experts
@EngageStrath
@strath_fem
@YvetteTaylor0
shaking up educational approaches, tackling access, promoting equality, feminist and antiracist pedagogies & questioning dominant knowledge paradigms inspired by bell hooks 💚
It’s my 1st year
@StrathEDU
anniversary today and what a great way to fully return to working on campus as staff from our school engage with Professional Learning programme the school put together 🤓🙌🏼📝
The annual leave in Galicia/Spain was dreamy and joyous. Batteries charged 100%, but it’s good to return to routine. Excited about what this year might bring. Looking forward to catching up with
@StrathEDU
colleagues at the school professional learning day.
Just sharing my wee helper (when sleeping!) - Skye (9-week
#bordercollie
#puppy
). Skye made her premiere appearance on Zoom with my
@EapForSJ
colleagues yesterday and is now ready to boost retention and attendance amongst my dissertation & Phd students
#StrathPets
What a day! It was so nice to finally meet students and staff offline and see the UWS Paisley campus after working remotely since March 2020!
@uwslanguages1
Celebrating the end of community placement with our
@StrathEDU
3rd year BA TESOL students &
@GESOLF
thank you Fergus for your mentorship 🤟🏼🙏🏼🤌🏼
@ajcorrigan
Congratulations to Hisham, our former
@uwslanguages1
BA ESL student for securing a competitive Sanctuary Scholarship from
@UniofSanctuary
@univofstandrews
at which Hisham will study MLitt Manegement from September this year. Best wishes for your next adventure! 🎉🎉🎉
Concluding my final seminar with my Year 4 BA Ed +
#StrathTESOL
ss in the X7499 Research Methods module. It's been an absolute pleasure witnessing your growth as English language teachers over the past 2 years. Now, time to nail your dissertations! 📚🎓
@ajcorrigan
@StrathEDU
1/2 I'm over the moon that Mehrdad, our
@StrathEDU
international PhD student from Iran whose proposal
@ClairePwCC
and I have worked on in the last few months was granted
@HaSSGradSchool
Global Research Award (full time 3-yr value of int fees scholarship) for his project titled..
#BackToSchool2020
never felt as surreal but still exciting | back in rainy Glasgow |
#planningmode
| SAD lamp and lemon grass essential oil aromatherapy at the ready 😅👌🏼
Really enjoyed my 1st
@BAAL2023York
@__BAAL
#baal2023
conference. Provoking programme & excellent networking opportunity - bravo to the organisers! It was great to hang out with the
@baalsjsig
members, present with my colleague Joanna McPake and reunite with
@RichardBadger2
🤓
My
#office
today - getting my daily dose of VIT D. Mornings are always the most productive part of the day for me. Working on two deadlines before next week
#chop
#chop
So good to see my oldest ever
#EAP
buddy.
@Vampirelinguist
and I first met/worked at the University of Portsmouth in 2010, here we are 13 years later at the
#baleap2023
conference 🤌🏼🤌🏼
Wishing my Muslim students and colleagues
#RamadanMubarak
! Let’s come together in global solidarity this month to appreciate past blessings, reflect on present challenges, & plan for a brighter future رمضان مبارك، كل عام و انتم بألف خير.
Incredibly thankful to
@StephZihms
from
@UniWestScotland
for designing a relevant, stimulating, dialogue-friendly and multi-dimensional training for new/inexperienced PGR Supervisors! Now, I’m officially ready to start accepting PhD students as a lead supervisor 📚🖊📢🎉
#phdchat
What a great start of the
#TELSIG
conference with
@NikPeachey
the goal for my 1st week of teaching next week is to create a TEAM rather than a GROUP | the conference programme for the rest of the weekend looks fab too! Thank you
@telsig
for putting this FREE CPD event together👌
Our
@uwslanguages1
Doctoral Induction Programme students have been busy refining their PhD proposals. This week they pitched their final versions. We saw a great range of concise and creative presentations including
#pechakucha
and
#prezi
.
Signed, sealed, delivered - I’m yours! I had a relaxing and productive Easter break & I’m now ready to roll the ball! ✔️book chapter submitted ✔️conference presentation delivered ✔️an entire (non-academic) book read ✔️sun exposure, yoga & cycling⏩ Now, let’s wrap up trimester 2
Today
@uwslanguages1
DIP students discussed critical discourse analysis based on the reading of ‚Debating Arabic: Governmentality and Language Controversy in Algeria’ by
@GarethSmail
We created
#mindmaps
and I even learnt to write in
#Arabic
😎
Me trying to understand
#LCT
Legitimation Code Theory when
@stiivkirk
talks about EAP materials design and its impact on affordances for teaching and learning... I’m slowly getting there, bear with! 🤓😅
#baleap2021
Such a great idea -
#PlantsOfELT
- just realising my plants have been attending my lectures the whole semester. I now need to figure out how to move them behind me as I’m bored of the fake Zoom and Teams virtual backgrounds 😅🤓 share yours!
Quite proud of myself today as I feel I've finally nailed
#MicrosoftForms
and
#MicrosoftStream
to design a solid listening and reading comprehension quiz/assessment for my Business English students
2nd draft of a book chapter submitted 📕🙏🏼🫶🙌🏼 feeling privileged to co-author with these super talented colleagues
@mighty_write
&
@IwonaPringle
and… TGIF! ✌🏼
The hottest day in Scotland this year - no problem, let’s do the Phd Supervision in The Howgait (local uni pub) beer garden ☀️🌅🕶️🍸with my oldest and youngest PhD students
@mehrdadmohajeri
@eyadmalysia
Loving the nicer weather and my daily cycling commute to work
#cycletowork
Perfect excuse to catch up with the
@StrathEDU
Podcast -
@LaelaAdamson
loved hearing about your work!
Enjoyed seeing P7 students from
@AnnetteStreetPS
give insightful presentations on segregation, discrimination, and racism today. Their transformative use of spoken English and literacy skills was amazing. A wonderful experience!
#PartnershipTeaching
#EAL
@EALGlasgow
A fantastic wrap-up of my last seminar this semester with students presenting their research projects on Global Englishes, ICC in ELT and English as an International Language in Chinese, European and Nigerian contexts 📝🤓🎬🎤👍🏼🎉
I’m Polish and British (double citizenship), and now living and working in Scotland, but most of all I feel European. Today on
#BrexitDay
, it feels rather weird to say bye to Europe, this is definitely not the final goodbye from me. Here’s to
#Europe
🥂🇪🇺🎉
It was lovely to catch up with our January group of
@StrathEDU
#StrathMScTESOLIC
students today. The students just completed their first semester and are about to submit their dissertation proposals
@alannhuang
@ciliagr
#tdgicarnival
Race & Queerness in ELT kicked off with a stimulating keynote from
@JPBGerald
, lots of food for thought: how did whiteness impact you growing up? And as a teacher and student?
Ecstatic my new elective module proposal (Re-imagining TESOL in the 21st Century) for our MSc TESOLIC has been approved by the Academic Comittee. Even more excited about materials development and purchasing new books for the essential reading list
@StrathEDU
#StrathTESOL
👨🏻💻📚🖋📇
A productive day on campus - picked up the key to my office, checked out the 5th floor in Lord Hope-it’s so nice! Stimulating Seminar with our
@StrathEDU
MSc
#StrathTESOL
ss✔️ now a quick lunch grab from Nourish, next off to dissertation tutorials in the new L&T building
Today was my last teaching session in this academic year. I learnt more about using technology and teaching online from
@uwslanguages1
#DoctoralInductionProgramme
students than any webinars/articles out there! Inductive approach is always the best! Another milestone completed 👍🏼
So good to see our
@StrathEDU
Y3 BA Education and TESOL students Mansoor and Ahmed enjoying the start of their placement with the South Lanarkshire College ESOL team. Smash it boys!
@GetKahoot
became one my main methods of engaging
@uwslanguages1
students in the
#doctoralinductionprogramme
content. It works wonders for consolidating understanding of journal articles. Rivalry can be an incentive sometimes 😅