Around the World in 30 Days – May 2015
C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report In May, I continued my conversations with thought leaders from China to New York who sketched out for me the conflicting overlaps between creativity, innovation, reform, and testing, and shared their efforts to create coalescence between them. Meanwhile, my Top 12 Global Teacher Bloggers contributed some much-needed tips on one of the hottest topics for this time of the school calendar year,...
The Global Search for Education: Our Top 12 Global Teacher Blogs – What are the quick ways to combat teacher stress in a classroom?
Teachers report high levels of stress and low levels of autonomy according to a new survey of over 30,000 teachers in the United States: Quality of Worklife Survey. Each month we ask our Top 12 Global Teacher Bloggers to share their perspectives on the issues that teachers around the world believe are the most critical. Following the new AFT and Badass Teachers survey, we asked our Global Top 12 Teachers to share their solutions to...
The Global Search for Education: From Shanghai
“In PISA 2009, we found that Chinese students don’t like rote learning in math. Most teachers don’t believe in rote learning and encourage students to be creative.”– Zhu Xiaohu Shanghai is the largest city in China; who in education is not aware of the fact that this city’s students finished at the top of the charts in the PISA 2009 exam? Since then, educators from all over the world have travelled...
The Global Search for Education: Oppi-tunities for Parents
Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Cathy Rubin and Randi Weingarten at Oppi Festival Kick Off Call me mad or just insanely curious, but I visited over 20 schools before I selected one for my kids. For me, the way I educated my kids was the most critical decision I ever made in my life. In virtually every school, the head of school would remind us at the end of the tour, “this is a partnership between us the school and you the parents...
The Global Search for Education: Digital
“We live in a world now where anybody can ask any question anywhere and get thousands of answers within seconds, but it is up to the questioner to determine which of those answers are legit, which are false, which are intentionally misleading.” — Howard Rheingold If you think educating an individual to be digitally literate is difficult today, just imagine what it will be like 5 years from now? Howard...
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