Tip Top Tips Edu: Olly Lewis - Tips for Early Career Teachers and Middle and Senior leadership
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English - February 04, 2022 15:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MBEducation Technology edtech education technology podcasts debates news education school i.t. al kingsley Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Welcome to Episode 21 of #TipTopTipsEdu!
In this episode, we got to chat with Olly Lewis, an award-winning senior leader from the UK working at the “British International School Abu Dhabi”.
Olly is the winner of two GESS awards and contributed a case study for our “Guide to creating a digital strategy in education”. He also has a popular blog at ollylewislearning.com and regularly shares on his Twitter and via his GESS award-winning show, #LearnLiveUAE.
Given his broad experience in education, we presented Olly with quite a few questions for him to consider:
1. What advice would you give to someone considering a career as a teacher in education?
2. What advice would you give to someone thinking of applying to work at an international school?
3. Why do you have an interest in edtech and why is it important in education?
4. What benefits do blogging, vlogging and sharing about your work bring you and your school and what advice would you give to someone considering starting similar activities?
5. Leading on technology in a large-scale organisation isn’t easy and your new role as Head of Digital Transformation at the Thomas Deacon Educational Trust is a big undertaking. Can you share tips on how to approach a role such as this, which covers ten very different schools?
6. If you could meet your NQT self, what three tip top tips would you share with yourself that would help you in your career over the next ten years?
7. What are your top three keyboard shortcuts?
8. Tell us more about #LearnLiveUAE and why do you think it’s been so successful?
9. What is the most important thing to bear in mind when considering edtech and its use in the classroom, across a department or across a whole school?
As you might expect, the answers are not just considered and helpful, but firmly planted in both chalkface experience and evidence-informed approaches. We are confident there are plenty of takeaways in this episode for both early career teachers and those in middle and senior leadership. We hope you think so too!