The Global Search for Education: Teacher Education
“The 21st century “movement” refers to the redefining of the goals of education and how learning is organized in order to meet the demands of the 21st century.”- Jari Lavonen Jari Lavonen, Professor of Science Education and head of department at the University of Helsinki, Finland, will be speaking about teacher education in Finland with a particular focus on teacher effectiveness and professionalism at the...
The Global Search for Education: Japan
“Ours is now a knowledge based society, which requires education to strengthen higher-ordered inquiry, creativity and communication beyond ready-made knowledge and skills acquisition.” — Professor Manabu Sato Many consider Japanese primary and junior secondary level education to be exceptional, yet Manabu Sato believes the quality of his country’s senior secondary and higher education is questionable....
The Global Search for Education: Education Technology
“The iPad has enabled greater access for both the education consumer and the creator.” — Tony Wagner EdTechTeacher will host the first national iPads in education summit, bringing together educators, researchers, tech directors, principals, school leaders and industry partners to identify best practices for integrating iPads into education. The conference will be held from November 6th to 8th at The Joseph B....
The Global Search for Education: An International Education
“Every child around the world should have the opportunity to have a high quality global education.” – Jeffrey Beard The International Baccalaureate (the IB) continues to play an important role in changing the lives of students worldwide. Apart from PISA, it is the only test that measures the performance of students against their global peers. Dr. Tony Wagner, Innovation Education fellow at Harvard University...
The Global Search for Education: Change Leader
“The way to improve the quality of teaching is through teamwork in the schools, and then surround it with better teacher pre-service, better attraction of the profession, and better professional development.” — Michael Fullan Michael Fullan has been working to identify the right drivers for whole system education reform. His paper, “Choosing the Wrong Drivers for Whole System Reform,” has...
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