ASILI Virtual School

24/08/2026

Effective feedback involves closing the loop.

Amelia spent a week on her history essay. Her teacher returned it with genuinely excellent feedback — specific, well-pitched, pointing to what was strong and what to develop next.

22/08/2026

Curiosity series.

Hand a three-year-old an iPad, a bilingual household, and a box of Cheerios, and within a year they'll be code-switching between English and Spanish, negotiating snack terms like a union rep, and somehow unlocking your phone with FaceID while asleep. No syllabus.

22/08/2026

Liminality!

Read and cross the threshold.

17/08/2026

🎓 FREE PD for teachers — and it starts with a better question than "how do I make this faster?"

The question is: is this task even worth doing?

Most "AI for teachers" advice just helps you make more worksheets, quicker. But a faster worksheet is still a worksheet. We're running free professional development on the harder, better skill: using AI to design tasks that actually make pupils think — and that stand up to inspection.

You'll learn to:
✏️ Turn a flat objective into a task worth doing
🧠 Design for thinking, not busywork
✅ Build the success criteria and the check alongside the task
🛡️ Keep your professional judgement in charge — KHDA / ADEK friendly

Practical, teacher-led, no tech background needed. Open to teachers across the GCC.

📌 Want in? Like this page and comment TASKS and we'll message you the details.

Send a message to learn more

12/08/2026

Think your explanation can win the room? Prove it — and win a free PD either way. ⚔️

The Great Teaching Duel is open to teachers across the GCC, Kenya and Australia. Here's the ASILI edge: before you step up, we'll show you how to use AI (like Claude) to pressure-test your explanation — spot where pupils get stuck, find the analogy that lands, and build the quick check that proves it worked.

🎁 Every qualifying entrant wins one FREE professional-development (PD) session.

✅ HOW TO ENTER (all three):
1️⃣ Like this page — ASILI Virtual School
2️⃣ Comment DUEL and your subject on this post
3️⃣ Submit your lesson plan — one threshold concept + the activity you'd use to teach it: https://forms.gle/iawcH6wJ5ysn2X6LA

That's it — no shares or tagging needed. We'll be in touch with your PD session and the draw details.

10/08/2026

🏫 School leaders — the best CPD in your building is already there. It's your teachers.

Most professional development is done to teachers. The Great Teaching Duel is done by them — and the whole staffroom learns by watching.

When ASILI runs the Duel as an INSET / CPD day at your school, you get:
🏆 A staffroom event people actually look forward to
📚 A Concept Bank — every winning lesson written up for your shared library
🎓 Champions who model their winning lesson for the wider staff
✅ A practical, inspection-aligned focus on clarity, checking and retention (KHDA / ADEK friendly)

Open to schools across the GCC, Kenya and Australia.

📩 Bring it to your staffroom this term — enquire here: https://greatteachingduel.mystrikingly.com

07/08/2026

Three rounds. Four things the judges watch for. ⚖️

🎲 ROUND 1 — The Draw: one tricky concept per pair, plus a fixed prep window.
🎤 ROUND 2 — The Teach-Off: back-to-back 12-minute mini-lessons, live.
📊 ROUND 3 — The Verdict: pupils sit a quick check; the panel scores.

The panel is watching for four things:
1️⃣ Clarity — could a pupil explain it back in their own words?
2️⃣ Engagement — did the room stay with it, or drift?
3️⃣ Checking — did the teacher find out who was actually following?
4️⃣ Retention — scored straight from the pupils' end-of-round check.

🎁 Reminder: everyone who enters wins a free PD session. Sharpen your explanations — this is where they get tested. 🔥

05/08/2026

Same concept. Two teachers. One class watching. 👇

Here's how The Great Teaching Duel works:

Two teachers from the same subject or phase are handed the same notoriously tricky concept — the kind pupils trip over every year. Same prep window for both.

Then, back to back, they teach it. Two 12-minute mini-lessons to the same group of pupils who've never seen the idea before.

At the end, the pupils sit a quick, ungraded check — and the room finds out whose explanation actually stuck.

It's not about who knows more. It's about who makes it click.

🎁 Every teacher who enters wins a free PD session — so everyone walks away sharper.

Would you step up? 👇

03/08/2026

⚔️ Introducing THE GREAT TEACHING DUEL.

In 1535, mathematicians settled their rivalries in public. Niccolò Tartaglia didn't win by knowing more than his opponent — he won by explaining his solution so clearly, live and in front of judges, that no one could argue with it.

Great teaching is the same contest. The concept is fixed. The class is watching. Clarity is the only thing that counts.

ASILI Virtual School is bringing that contest to teachers across the GCC, Kenya and Australia: two teachers, one tricky concept, one class — and a room deciding whose explanation lands first.

🎁 And here's the best part: every teacher who enters wins a FREE professional-development (PD) session.

👀 Full details this week. Like the page so you don't miss the draw.

24/07/2026

Teachers and school leaders in the UAE 🇦🇪 — a question:

Where do you feel most stuck with AI right now?

A) I don't know which tools to trust
B) I worry about students misusing it
C) I don't have time to learn it
D) I want to but leadership isn't on board

Drop your letter below. 👇 We'll turn the most common answers into free, practical guides — no jargon, no sales pitch.

Prefer a private chat? Send us a message. We're teacher-led and happy to help. 💙