(Near-) accidents around the school
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…
Are you proud of your teacher education?
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…
New report on Initial Teacher Education
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…
LIKE
“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…