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“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…
UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development – Partners in Action
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…
Testing pre-school children?
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…
European projects
Are you involved in a European project? The Learning Teacher Network has been interested in your innovative school projects for more than a decade. The Network started, in their early…
The Importance of Academic Courage – a brief review
One of my absolute favourite education blogs is Edutopia (). In this post I shall be reviewing a recent post on Academic Courage. I don't mean being able to summon…
Sustainable consumers
Sometimes teachers in (pre-) primary education have the feeling that the curriculum is overloaded . When it comes down to it there seem to be all kind of extra demands…
Teachers’ salaries in Europe
Statistics from the OECD on teachers’ salaries are showing interesting details about the salary differences between primary school teachers and teachers in (upper) secondary. (#indicator-chart). The OECD compared these salaries…
SDGs in Action
The use of mobile platforms to further the ambitions of the SDGs is very clever. A private company in the US has created apps that work both on iPhones and…
Make School About Learning, Not About Grades – a review.
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…
A really interesting report on the future of learning
A report has just come out that looks at cyberlearning and its impact on education Here are five reasons why you should download and read it: The report explains what cyberlearning…