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...
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...
The Global Search for Education: Our Top 12 Global Teacher Blogs – What Are The Best Ways a Teacher Can Demonstrate Leadership in the Classroom?
Effective leadership in the classroom, according to Theo Wubbels (@thwubbels), one of the world’s most respected experts in the area of teacher training and teacher-student relationships, “depends on healthy and productive interpersonal relationships between teachers and students. In such relationships, students feel close to their teacher and they trust and value him or her. From the perspective of teachers’...
Around The World In 30 Days – April 2015
C. M. Rubin’s global education report In April, I continued my conversations with thought leaders around the world on many topics including the role of standardized testing, global inequality, creativity, and innovation in our world today. I saw first hand the amazing work that Creative 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...
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