Around the World in 30 Days – February 2016
C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report Ambassador Kirsti Kauppi, Dr. Nicholas Breakwell, Dr. David Perkins, Andreas Schleicher and Pak Tee Ng contributed to The Global Search for Education discussions this month on future learning, sharing perspectives on topics which ranged from what’s really worth learning, to strategies to improve learning amongst 15 year olds, to an insider’s look at how online training for...
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....
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...
The Global Search for Education: Our Top 12 Global Teacher Blogs – What are the Best Ways for Teachers to Engage Their Classrooms in a Global Conversation?
Creating world citizens has become one of the hottest topics in education this year. Students everywhere will need to be globally competent if they are to succeed in the interconnected economies and contribute as global citizens. How much do your students know about their world – its cultures, languages, current affairs, and socio-economic and environmental issues? As you will learn from the insightful articles shared by our Top...
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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