The Global Search for Education: Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Teachers
Oct17

The Global Search for Education: Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Teachers

http://venturearchitecture.com/portfolio/hi40-flats/ Posted By on Oct 17, 2017

Trinidad & Tobago “Education at its core is ‘social work’, meaning that growth, learning, and change happens between and among human beings when they interact with one another.” — Alan Daly “Education at its core is social work”, says Alan Daly, meaning that “growth, learning, and change happens between and among human beings when they interact with one another.” And, in the context of a rapidly changing global knowledge society, Daly believes...

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The Global Search for Education: Our Top 12 Global Teacher Blogs – What Are The Best Ways a Teacher Can Demonstrate Leadership in the Classroom?
Jun26

The Global Search for Education: Our Top 12 Global Teacher Blogs – What Are The Best Ways a Teacher Can Demonstrate Leadership in the Classroom?

Posted By on Jun 26, 2015

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’...

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The Global Search for Education: China – To Follow Or Not To Follow?
Sep26

The Global Search for Education: China – To Follow Or Not To Follow?

“Schooling and the economy are less intimately connected than people realize. A nation’s education system grows out of its larger culture; graft a foreign system onto a different culture and the plant will never flourish.” — Gene Glass Author Yong Zhao has plenty to say about the dangerous consequences of China’s educational authoritarianism and he has begun to convince some very important leaders of global...

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The Global Search For Education: Helping the World’s Teachers
Jun26

The Global Search For Education: Helping the World’s Teachers

What does TALIS teach us? Last Thursday, I attended a dazzling gala to watch special education teacher Matthew Cunningham accept the inaugural GEMS Education Chicago Teacher Award. And yesterday, I listened as Andreas Schleicher presented the key findings from the 2013 OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS). In the context of Education Fast Forward (EFF) Debate 10, “Better Teaching for Better Learning: Results...

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The Global Search for Education: What Is the Fourth Way?
Jan28

The Global Search for Education: What Is the Fourth Way?

 “We need to establish platforms for teachers to initiate their own changes and make their own judgments on the frontline, to invest more in the change capacities of local districts and communities, and to pursue prudent rather than profligate approaches to testing.” — Andy Hargreaves and Dennis Shirley  The Fourth Way is a powerful new vision to bring about effective educational reform. Even after one has...

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