Janet English reports the findings from her research into the Finnish educational system and how she's incorporated these findings into her own teaching practice. Read more here.
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Janet English reports the findings from her research into the Finnish educational system and how she's incorporated these findings into her own teaching practice. Read more here.
Sir Michael Barber, one of the world’s most prominent educationalists, believes that we are in the midst of a learning revolution that will mean fewer teachers, an “explosion” of data and a departure from traditional schooling. Read more here.
Visible Learning's Jayne-Anne Young spoke at a free, public lecture as part of the Houston A+ Challenge Speaker Series on Public Education on how she works alongside John Hattie to ensure that schools around the globe focus their limited resources and energy not just on what works - but what works best. Watch video here.
The Department of Education has branded "tracking"—designating students for separate educational paths based on their academic performance—as a modern day form of segregation, reports Sonali Kohli. Read more here.
How can we ability to offer Increasingly personalised, meaningful, engaging learning experiences for students? Mark Osborne discusses the implications, challenges and examples of how to to strengthen partnerships between school, the student, and parents and whanau. Read more here.
Learning can seem a mystifying process at times, but there is much educators can learn from research. Aubrey Francisco from Digital Promise summarizes ten key research findings that every educator should know about the way learning minds work.
In the last decade, emphasis in education has shifted from the achievement of grades to a ‘deeper learning’ model characterized by skills such as conceptual thinking. Katrina Schwarz examines recent studies on the impact that deeper learning is having on students’ performance in class. Read more here.
Empowering and involving school leaders is an essential part of teaching, enabling teachers to create a new dynamic which engages teachers and students together as a learning group. Gayle Allen examines four activities that shift classes out of hierarchical structure and into a creative, dynamic team. Read more here.
As the new principle of Conte Community School in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Kerry Light is implementing an innovative programme that focuses on combining community feedback with individual achievement plans for each of her 369 students. Jim Therrien from the Berkshire Eagle checks in with Light on the challenges of running this programme - read more here.
Are school hours harming our teenagers’ health? During adolescence, the sleep cycle shifts two hours to allow the body to grow. The American Association of Pediatrics argues that beginning school too early is contributing to teen lethargy, car accidents and depression. Read more here.
