Im April, I continued my conversations with thought leaders around the world on many topics including the role of standardized testing, global inequality, Kreativität, and innovation in our world today.
I saw first hand the amazing work that Kreative Oklahoma is doing in that state to nurture the arts with schools, business leaders and communities. This is the age of innovation and all our futures depend on it. The Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards and Anti-Summit workshops at the Tribeca Film Festival taught the audience profound lessons on innovation by sharing the stories of some of the world’s most impressive entrepreneurs. Unsere Top- 12 Global Teacher bloggers tackled the topics of standardized testing and learning in the classroom this month. I also researched one of many emerging initiatives to prepare graduate students for study abroad. I had an insightful chat with Howard Gardner and Pasi Sahlberg about what makes US and Finnish education so great. Und schlussendlich, I talked to WISE Education Prize winner, Ann Cotton, about the continued success of her organization in Africa, Camfed.
Finnland is remarkable for not only routinely scoring among the top nations on the PISA exams, but also for being among the most equitable school systems in the world. The US is widely seen as having the world’s finest higher education institutions. Gardner stellt fest, dass “unlike the case in other countries, wo die Hochschulbildung ist im wesentlichen die berufliche oder gewerbliche, American colleges and universities offer a liberal arts education — a broad set of courses which develop analytic, kreativ, and communicative capacities.” According to Sahlberg, Finland’s success “is often built on research, Innovation und Modelle aus anderen Ländern, most often from the United States.”
My Top 12 Lehrer Bloggers tackled the enduring question of how to balance test preparation with overall classroom goals. It turns out that many refuse to focus exclusively on the test, working instead on larger goals such as critical thinking and real world experience. Most found good test scores could fall into place as a byproduct of developing a love of learning. But almost all felt that standardized testing misses the mark on what’s important in the classroom.
If standardized testing is too caught up with traditional modes of judgment that make no sense to assess the present day student, then one has to hope that the high stakes testing system will innovate sometime soon. In der Zwischenzeit, at the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards (inspired by Clay Christensen’s Theory of Disruptive Innovation), the impressive list of global honorees talked about the innovation occurring in our world right now. I asked some of the honorees to share their innermost secrets on disruptive success. One of the many quotable comments was from Matthew Putman of Nanontronics: “Do not look solely to the leaders in your field. Let Henri Matisse guide you as much as Steve Jobs.”
We live in a global world and I had the pleasure of talking to Tom Felsen (Associate Provost for Enrollment Services at Teachers College, Columbia University) about the International Pre-Graduate Program that Teachers College is launching this summer. Tom filled me in on the skills and knowledge sets that are most important to students preparing to teach and study in America, and noted that “Classroom discussions are often different from culture to culture. The expectations of the students might differ across cultures.”
zuletzt, I talked to the extraordinary Ann Cotton, Founder and President of Camfed, a world-renowned non-profit organization tackling poverty and inequality in sub-Saharan Africa. Ann discussed the continued importance of Camfed, the various changes in education inequality that have occurred since she began her work in Africa, and the benefits of the WISE Prize for Education she received at the end of last year. Her advice to newcomers who want to make a difference to global inequality is to “listen very hard and learn a great deal.” Ann’s practice of compassionate thinking and learning has allowed her to pave the way for great progress in African education. The best schools, in her experience, are always “looking at the wider individual. We have to think about the whole child because one will succeed in many different ways in life and if the education system puts academic measurement as the main way of measuring, then we place children and institutions under enormous strain.”
Begleiten Sie mich und weltweit renommierten Vordenkern wie Sir Michael Barber (Vereinigtes Königreich), DR. Michael Block (US-), DR. Leon Botstein (US-), Professor Ton Christensen (US-), DR. Linda Hammond-Liebling (US-), DR. MadhavChavan (Indien), Professor Michael Fullan (Kanada), Professor Howard Gardner (US-), Professor Andy Hargreaves (US-), Professor Yvonne Hellman (Niederlande), Professor Kristin Helstad (Norwegen), Jean Hendrickson (US-), Professor Rose Hipkins (Neuseeland), Professor Cornelia Hoogland (Kanada), Herr Jeff Johnson (Kanada), Frau. Chantal Kaufmann (Belgien), DR. EijaKauppinen (Finnland), Staatssekretär TapioKosunen (Finnland), Professor Dominique Lafontaine (Belgien), Professor Hugh Lauder (Vereinigtes Königreich), Herr Ken Macdonald (Vereinigtes Königreich), Professor Geoff Masters (Australien), Professor Barry McGaw (Australien), Shiv Nadar (Indien), Professor R. Natarajan (Indien), DR. PAK NG (Singapur), DR. Denise Papst (US), Sridhar Rajagopalan (Indien), DR. Diane Ravitch (US-), Richard Wilson Riley (US-), Sir Ken Robinson (Vereinigtes Königreich), Professor Pasi Sahlberg (Finnland), Professor Manabu Sato (Japan), Andreas Schleicher (PISA, OECD), DR. Anthony Seldon (Vereinigtes Königreich), DR. David Shaffer (US-), DR. Kirsten Sivesind (Norwegen), Kanzler Stephen Spahn (US-), Yves Theze (LyceeFrancais US-), Professor Charles Ungerleider (Kanada), Professor Tony Wagner (US-), Sir David Watson (Vereinigtes Königreich), Professor Dylan Wiliam (Vereinigtes Königreich), DR. Mark Wormald (Vereinigtes Königreich), Professor Theo Wubbels (Niederlande), Professor Michael Young (Vereinigtes Königreich), und Professor Zhang Minxuan (China) wie sie das große Bild Bildung Fragen, die alle Nationen heute konfrontiert erkunden.
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