The Global Search for Education: Coming Together
“While some celebrated the accomplishments of the first African-American president, others devolved into deep-seated anger about how his presidency altered the course of the US, globally and at home. Globalization has undoubtedly contributed to these differences, since the gaps – in education, wealth and access to cultural difference – nurture profoundly different outlooks.” — Bill Gaudelli In President...
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...
Around the World in 30 Days – May 2015
C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report In May, I continued my conversations with thought leaders from China to New York who sketched out for me the conflicting overlaps between creativity, innovation, reform, and testing, and shared their efforts to create coalescence between them. Meanwhile, my Top 12 Global Teacher Bloggers contributed some much-needed tips on one of the hottest topics for this time of the school calendar year,...
The Global Search for Education: Do You Have Global Skills?
“90% of Canadians polled in a national opinion survey supported study abroad and nearly as many believed that financial support should be available.”– Karen McBride Why are global skills even more critical in today’s world? What does the latest research tell us? Why are Canadian parents, educators and employers taking these skills very seriously? Call me a global nomad. By the time I was 18, my parents had exposed me...
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