The Global Search for Education: Ideas Ideas Ideas Ideas!
“In the US, the main way [to impact teacher retention] is to improve the status and conditions of teaching as a profession.” — Sir Ken Robinson The Creative Oklahoma World Forum (@OK_Creativity) on March 31 believes #YourIdeasMatter. Our world faces problems everywhere. Creative Oklahoma has invited the public to tap into their innate creative problem-solving abilities and participate in a statewide brainstorm on...
The Global Search for Education: Our Global Top 12 Teacher Blogs
Our Global Top 12 Teacher Blogs It’s a New Year Teachers! Are you ready to start that new blog? Want some tips from some pros around the world on how to make it a great one? Everybody was blogging in 2014, and especially teachers. After all, blogging is an incredible way for teachers to share first hand knowledge with their peers. We asked The Global Search for Education editorial team and our blogging advisors to submit their...
The Global Search for Education: What the World Can Learn from Latin America
“Latino students should feel proud of their mathematical and cultural heritage, and move in unison with their host country as we co-create a culture that values mathematical ideas. That should be the goal of any mathematics education agenda.” — Hector Rosario The largest percentage of foreign-born residents in the United States come from South America, Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean. In 28 states, more...
The Global Search for Education: China – To Follow Or Not To Follow?
“Schooling and the economy are less intimately connected than people realize. A nation’s education system grows out of its larger culture; graft a foreign system onto a different culture and the plant will never flourish.” — Gene Glass Author Yong Zhao has plenty to say about the dangerous consequences of China’s educational authoritarianism and he has begun to convince some very important leaders of global...
The Global Search For Education: Helping the World’s Teachers
What does TALIS teach us? Last Thursday, I attended a dazzling gala to watch special education teacher Matthew Cunningham accept the inaugural GEMS Education Chicago Teacher Award. And yesterday, I listened as Andreas Schleicher presented the key findings from the 2013 OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS). In the context of Education Fast Forward (EFF) Debate 10, “Better Teaching for Better Learning: Results...
The Global Search for Education: Teacher I Need You
Special Ed teacher Matthew Cunningham awarded the inaugural GEMS Education Chicago Teacher Award “But what does it all mean to YOU?” My teacher was referring to all the facts I had memorized and regurgitated in my answer. What did the facts teach me? Suddenly a light bulb went on in my head. And, in that magical moment, we made a connection that would change the way I thought about history forever. “When the magic...
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