Top Global Teachers
What are the important skills, behaviours, and attitudes that students need to become contributing global citizens?
If by contributing global citizen we mean someone who sees themselves as having a part to play in deciding how the world works, we must surely be talking about moving on from the very individualistic approaches that our largely capitalist and materialistic world currently encourages. If the state of humanity is more important to us…
Read MoreHow do we inspire the best and brightest to become educators?
The short answer: By engaging them in a new paradigm! In a world that defines success in $$$ signs, cars, houses and material possessions, none of the best or brightest will want to pursue teaching as it is never going to be among the highly remunerated jobs. If we can enable our youngsters to realise…
Read MoreHow do we do a better job of cultivating young readers?
In an increasingly screen-filled western world, we have seen the obvious love of books dying off for some decades among the younger generations. My own father claimed to have seen a massive rise in average reading ages among the children he was teaching since the arrival of the television in the average British living room. …
Read MoreGlobal Teacher Blog: what are the best example you have seen of teachers using social media to enhance learning?
Sadly, on the face of it, the answer has to be ‘none in Sierra Leone’! But this is not due to a lack of will on the part of the educators! Surely there is no clearer place where the big divide is seen than…
Read MoreGlobal Teacher Blog: Closing the gender gap with the Women’s Project
In every way, girls and women are on the back foot in Sierra Leone. Education is no exception. Girls are told that they are ‘only girls’ and that their ‘heads haven’t come for books’ etc. from day one and it is only the lucky few that get taught to rethink or who dare to challenge…
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