“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...
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 period, to organize seminars where schools working with children of similar ages could meet and find out...
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...
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 from society coming into schools. This is especially so when something is happening and nobody...
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...
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 Android devices. Check it out here. The app gets great reviews and could be just what...
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...
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 is and sets it in the context of a history of learning scientists and computer scientists...
