On Sunday, December 10th, 2017 the Nobel prizes were distributed. The chair of the Committee mentioned during his opening speech the start of a new initiative regarding teachers: the Nobel teacher. For this speech go to https://www.svtplay.se/video/16238102/nobel-2017-prisutdelning/nobel-2017-prisutdelning-10-dec-16-25?start=autoummit Minute 13-15 “Nobel Teacher Summit is an international event held...
Martin Fitzgerald, the President of the LTN is currently attending the Advanced training workshop on education for sustainable development for teachers and educators in Asian-Pacific Region (Link). As part of the workshop Martin has been made and Expert in Asia-Pacific ESD. Congratulations, Martin! ...
The International LTN GAP Seminar: “Immigration and Good Quality Education”, Palermo 2018 can access funding from the EU. If you would like to apply for funding please click here. Good luck and we look forward to seeing you there. ...
Bill Goddard has just received these links to some interesting projects. As he says:- " There is a lot of work going on with a fellow group member called PERL (The Partnership for Education and Research about Responsible Living) and their website shows a lot of interesting material...
Rob knocked loudly on my classroom window and shouted ” Again, a near-accident in front of the school. I believe it is Debbie from your group!!” Many teachers will have had the feeling that this kind of events need to stop. Why are so many parents...
Looking for the proud teacher and her/his education on the internet I only found: students proud of their teacher, teachers proud of their students, teachers proud of themselves, how to make your teacher proud of you and are you proud of your school? ...
The EU has just launched a new document that looks at the role of ITT in tackling the challenges in Diversity across the EU. It provides some excellent insights into how teachers can work with students to overcome some of the difficulties involved with diversity...
“I hate my teacher”. “She is a cow”. “She sucks” “Everyone hates her”. . “Everyone wants her to die”. And so on…. It is remarkable that on the internet we find lots of websites informing parents how they can learn their kids how to cope with bullying...
UNESCO have just released this document that describes Key Partner progress so far in achieving or moving towards the SDG targets. It is a pretty positive document and has some great stories to tell. You can download it from http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0025/002597/259719e.pdf ...
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...
