Understanding Key Elements of Great Teaching

About This Course

Asia International Schools Limited (AISL) prides itself on offering its learners an excellent education. Underpinning this excellence is a pedagogical approach that creates the conditions for students to develop thinking and learning.

This course explores current research defining great teaching through the following four dimensions:   

Understanding the content taught and how it is learnt

Creating a supportive environment for learning

Managing the classroom to maximise opportunities to learn

Presenting content, activities, and interactions that activate students’ thinking

Completing this course will take you approximately 40 minutes. By the end of this course, you will:

engage with a theoretical framework for understanding ‘excellent’ pedagogy

apply the theoretical framework to your school

About the Speaker

Dr Ahmed Hussain

Chief Education Officer, AISL

Dr. Ahmed Hussain is the Chief Education Officer with AISL. This position involves leading on educational strategy and operations across the Harrow group of schools in Asia. He is also an Associate Professor at the school of education at Durham University, a member of the editorial board of Research Journal: International Education Theory and Practice, a member of the expert panel for Pudong Education Bureau, Shanghai, and a Fellow of the Charter College for Teaching, UK.