The Global Search for Education: Our Top Global Teacher Blogs – What are the top ten ways that administrators can help new teachers avoid burning out?
Feb24

The Global Search for Education: Our Top Global Teacher Blogs – What are the top ten ways that administrators can help new teachers avoid burning out?

According to a report from the Alliance for Excellent Education, teacher attrition costs the United States up to $2.2 billion annually. Roughly half a million U.S. teachers either move or leave the profession each year, and tragically, this serious problem disproportionately affects high-poverty schools. It’s essential that we keep every teacher we get. Yet classroom teaching is arguably the most stressful job there is....

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The Global Search for Education: Our Top 12 Global Teacher Blogs – Remembering Joe Bower and His Love of Learning
Jan27

The Global Search for Education: Our Top 12 Global Teacher Blogs – Remembering Joe Bower and His Love of Learning

Remembering Joe Bower 1978 – 2016 We miss our Top 12 Global Blogger Joe Bower very much. Joe, a progressive and gifted educator from Red Deer, Alberta, Canada recently died of a massive heart attack at the age of 37. Through his regular contributions to the Top 12 Global Teacher Blogger series each month, Joe inspired our team enormously as well as thousands of educators around the world. On a personal note, I was delighted to...

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The Global Search for Education: Our Top 12 Global Teacher Blogs – What are the top games that can help students learn?
Nov25

The Global Search for Education: Our Top 12 Global Teacher Blogs – What are the top games that can help students learn?

I asked Susanna Pollack, President of Games for Change, what she believes are the key improvements needed in the next decade to make games better educational tools. “If we want kids to play games for learning, the games need to be as compelling as Call of Duty, Skyrim, and DDR,” she commented. “We’ve seen this happen with Minecraft and Assassin’s Creed, games that weren’t created to be educational...

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The Global Search for Education: Our Top 12 Global Teacher Blogs – Can Social Media Have a Role to Play in Managing a Successful Classroom?
Oct26

The Global Search for Education: Our Top 12 Global Teacher Blogs – Can Social Media Have a Role to Play in Managing a Successful Classroom?

To understand how marketers in different domains are using social media, Social Media Examiner commissioned it’s seventh annual 2015 Social Media Marketing Industry Report. Some interesting take homes from this report include: 90% of marketers credit social media for generating more exposure for their brands, with 77% citing that a major benefit is increased traffic and 69% saying they use social media to do market research and...

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The Global Search for Education: Our Top 12 Global Teacher Blogs – What Was Your Most Challenging Classroom and How Did You Turn It Around?
Sep25

The Global Search for Education: Our Top 12 Global Teacher Blogs – What Was Your Most Challenging Classroom and How Did You Turn It Around?

We’re keeping Teachers at the top of our global radar in a week of intense media focus on the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Talented teachers will be central to achieving the challenging goals set by the new Agenda. This month we posed this question to our Top 12 global team: What was your most challenging classroom and how did you turn it around? The stories shared by our teachers from around the world...

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