When teaching class recently, the topic of how people respond to finding out that my students are studying to become elementary school teachers came up. Almost all of these student teachers had stories. Often, when they told someone they were becoming a teacher, the person made a face. In one case, a gentleman told the aspiring teacher, “you can do better.”
Ouch.
Can do better than serving young people for a living? Helping them have a better future? Spending years of their...
"Our planet needs every one of us to take an active part in this transformative process." – Pero Sardzoski
The Pegasus English Language School, located in Tetovo, Macedonia, was founded in 2002. According to the school’s Director of Studies, Pero Sardzoski, the original goal was to create a “peace project” focused on...
Japanese baseball legend, Tetsuharu Kawakami, dedicated himself to Zen Buddhism and was known for spending hours meditating and honing his concentration. He claimed that his focus was so powerful that, when batting, the “ball would just stop.”
While you may not be a Zen master, there is much benefit to exploring mediation and mindfulness practices in the context of teaching. Mindfulness, which involves intentionally paying attention to the present moment and becoming more aware of...
Even for a 5th grader, Aidy was energetic. But today she could barely quiet her gangly limbs from tapping desks and rattling against her chair. She had waited all month to visit her mother in prison so when the day finally arrived, she was perfectly prepared with a tidy pink hair bow and tiny heeled dress shoes. As she crammed her coat into a messy locker, she confidently explained how her aunt would pick her up early from school and they would eat burgers wrapped in crinkly paper on the way...
Understanding the reality of the working world becomes clearer the more times a young person interacts with the world of work.” – Nick Chambers
The future will be about pairing the cognitive, social and emotional capabilities of human beings with machines. The ‘...
“Our Riverside school uses a curriculum that we call ‘Humane’, and the 5 E’s that shape our curriculum are Empathy, Ethics, Excellence, Elevation and Evolution” – Kiran Bir Sethi
Children are the future. Teach them well and let them lead the way.
Since 2009, Design for Change, based in India, has...
“While human fatalities from sharks average six per year, humans kill 100 million sharks every year.” – William McKeever
“Kill sharks and you kill the marine ecosystem,” says William McKeever, whose ground-breaking book, ...
“We believe the training and collaboration with teachers around the world will be absolute key to increasing the adoption more rapidly, and could easily lead to millions of students using VR globally to learn science more effectively.”
– Michael Bodekaer Jensen
Will all students one day have the...
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