Important Australian research at the university of Queensland (October 2017) is showing that practicing all kind of skills in the pre-school age (4-7) is absolutely worth spending time on as a teacher. Children themselves start these skills from 6 years old. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/sfri-saa101717.php Starting to read the summary...
One of my absolute favourite education blogs is Edutopia (https://www.edutopia.org). In this post I shall be reviewing a recent post on Academic Courage. I don't mean being able to summon up your courage as a teacher to go into a class full of horrible 16...
Statistics from the OECD on teachers’ salaries are showing interesting details about the salary differences between primary school teachers and teachers in (upper) secondary. (https://data.oecd.org/eduresource/teachers-salaries.htm#indicator-chart). The OECD compared these salaries in 2015 (in US dollars!!) all over the world. For me this was interesting for...
A fascinating article by Starr Sackstein has just appeared in Edweek blogs. In it Sackstein describes a philosophy of teaching and learning that I can really relate to - the difference between classes of obedient robots that pass exams and classes of natural enquirers who become and...