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Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program (TEA) | IREX - 0 views

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  • Teachers Without Borders on 28 Jul 11
     
    The Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program (TEA) brings outstanding secondary school teachers from around the globe to the United States to further develop expertise in their subject areas, enhance their teaching skills, and increase their knowledge about the United States.The program also brings US secondary school teachers to the home schools of international alumni to collaboratively develop workshops and share best practices. International alumni are eligible to apply for small grants to implement self-designed projects that benefit their home schools and communities.
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China pledges to send 3 out of every 10 Tibetan students to college - 0 views

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  • LHASA, July 18 (Xinhua) -- The government is planning to raise the higher education gross enrollment rate in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region to 30 percent in less than five years, meaning that three out of every 10 Tibetan students will enter college by 2015, local officials said Monday as Vice President Xi Jinping inspected Tibet University.
  • More than 31,000 students, mostly ethnic Tibetans, currently study in Tibet's six universities and junior colleges. Of them, 718 are pursuing post-graduate degrees. In addition, many students from Tibet are studying in universities outside the region, officials said.
  • Tibet's first modern primary school opened in Lhasa in 1952; the first secondary school opened four years later with significant government investment. In the 1970s, Tubdain Kaizhub attended a county-level high school near Lhasa, where courses were mainly taught in Tibetan. He managed to pick up Mandarin Chinese, the most widely-used language in China, from his neighbors in a military compound.
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Role reversal in Andhra Pradesh: Students to evaluate teachers - Times Of India - 0 views

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  • HYDERABAD: State schools will see a role reversal in their classrooms soon. Starting this academic year, students will be asked to evaluate the performance of teachers.
  • The evaluation sheet will have questions on teachers ranging from their teaching skills to their attendance and also whether they are approachable. It will also evaluate the approach adopted by the teachers in class, especially towards students who are poor performers.
  • Officials said that the teachers will be evaluated on a ten point scale. "We thought of a new evaluation process as the department felt that teachers should be accountable to students. The process will be introduced in classes V to X and we are even thinking of extending it to junior colleges that fall under the school education department," said a senior official.
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CBSE's new evaluation system leaves teachers groping in dark in Bangalore - Bangalore -... - 0 views

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  • A year after the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) system has been implemented, and two years since the introduction of the new grading system in schools affiliated to the Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE), teachers appear to be groping in the dark. There are vast variations in the manner in which the system is being implemented.
  • Though the approach, when it was first introduced, was touted as being child-centric, many teachers feel that its implementation is not practical, given the reality of large class sizes in many schools.
  • “It is a very detailed system of evaluation, and teachers are ill-equipped to do it. It’s too idealistic,” remarked Raman.
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  • The onus on the teacher is high, and many teachers are still learning the ropes.“In the first year, teachers found it quite cumbersome. Even now, teachers are learning the system,” said Mansoor Ali Khan, general secretary, Management of Independent CBSE Schools’ Association and secretary, Delhi Public School (DPS).
  • DPS conducts a five-day workshop each year, so that teachers understand the system better and new staff can be oriented to it. Experts are also brought in to address teachers.
  • Menon draws attention to the fundamental concern: “What is important is that teachers are able to diagnose learning difficulties in a child. This is not merely a question of assigning a mark or grade. The whole concept of CCE would be defeated if teachers cannot identify which child has understood the concept taught, and which hasn’t.”
  • Teachers Without Borders on 26 Jul 11
     
    A year after the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) system has been implemented, and two years since the introduction of the new grading system in schools affiliated to the Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE), teachers appear to be groping in the dark. There are vast variations in the manner in which the system is being implemented.
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The East African:  - News |E-learning is the way to go for schools - 0 views

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  • Teachers Without Borders on 26 Jul 11
     
    Intel Corporation is deepening its footprint in Kenya and East Africa by investing in e-learning initiatives.
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Burkina Faso: Tin Tua (The Bike Race) - 0 views

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  • Students from the Bandakidini Primary School on their way to their exams in Gayéri, the provincial capital of Burkina Faso and twelve miles away from their village, were a sight to see. They were riding on new bicycles, provided to them through the Ambassadors' Girls' Scholarship Program (AGSP), which is funded by USAID.
  • Transportation has long been a barrier to children attending school and accessing testing centers. When AGSP first started at this school in the village of Bandikidini, there were only 53 students.
  • In Bandikidini, the responsibility of transporting students to the testing centers falls on the community. Means of transportation are limited, as are supervisors to travel with the students. The Certificat d'etudes primaries (CEP) exams fall during the growing season, normally just around the time when there is enough rain to start planting the fields.
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  • In response, AGSP made it a point to include bicycles as part of this area's scholarship package. By 2010 they had given out 817 bicycles to scholars, which have proved to be beneficial in many situations, whether for a student to get herself to a crucial exam, or to ride across town to a classmate's house for an extra study session.
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Science Vocabulary - 2 views

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  • Cara Whitehead on 24 Jul 11
     
    Science vocabulary for all content areas and age levels (K-12)
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The child-driven education - 2 views

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  • Stephanie Lill on 18 Jul 11
     
    Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.
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Internet's memory effects quantified in computer study - 0 views

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  • Stephanie Lill on 18 Jul 11
     
    Computers and the internet are changing the nature of our memory, research in the journal Science suggests.
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Online alternatives to language classrooms open up to students - 2 views

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  • Stephanie Lill on 18 Jul 11
     
    Free learning content dominates the web but teachers are still in demand
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Teacher Resources - 2 views

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  • Cara Whitehead on 17 Jul 11
     
    Did you know Spelling City offers more than just spelling practice? There's vocabulary and writing, too. Check us out http://bit.ly/c3xqWy
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NAPF Peace Leadership Program: Become a Peace Leader in Your Community - 0 views

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  • stephknox24 on 12 Jul 11
     
    The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation started its Peace Leaders program in 2008 to encourage people all around the world to spread the message of nuclear disarmament and peace in their own communities. Being a Peace Leader is simple. You decide how much time and effort to volunteer, and we provide materials, ideas, and inspiration. We suggest you set a goal of reaching out to 50 people in 6 months, and our staff is happy to help you create an outreach plan for your community.
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Compassionate Listening - 1 views

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    Compassionate Listening An Exploratory Sourcebook About Conflict Transformation
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AMERICAN UNITY PROJECT - 0 views

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    The American Unity Project is an educational and instructional webisode series, which follows the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's Peace Leadership Director, former U.S. Army Captain Paul K. Chappell and his tireless efforts to empower, inspire, and unite Americans to wage peace in order
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allAfrica.com: Rwanda: More Than Building Schools - Access to Affordable Sanitary Pads ... - 1 views

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  • How can countries encourage girls to attend school? Is the answer providing free textbooks or building schools closer to their homes? While these are important pieces of the puzzle, there is another issue that influences whether girls attend school: menstruation.
  • According to the United Nations Children's Fund, one in 10 African girls stays home during menses or drops out of school. In many cases, girls do not have access to affordable sanitary pads, and social taboos against discussing menstruation compound the problem.
  • Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) in 2007 to address this problem. SHE works in Rwanda with its she28 campaign to develop an affordable and eco-friendly pad made from banana stem fibers so that girls can attend school unimpeded by worries over their menses.
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  • Not only is SHE working to help girls attend school during menses, but also the group is taking a market-based approach to boost local businesses in Rwanda. SHE plans to sell its more-affordable pads to local entrepreneurs, focusing on women sellers.
  • However, after talking to local girls, the SHE staff realized that the girls wanted health and hygiene education as well. In response, SHE has trained more than 50 community health and hygiene education workers, reaching some 5,000 Rwandans, according to Camacho.
  • SHE's work in Rwanda shows that a comprehensive approach is needed to expand women and girls' educational opportunities. "Women and girls are often left behind because of some of these silent issues," Camacho explains. "We need to approach women and girls' education in a holistic way."
  • Mokurai Cherlin on 09 Jul 11
     
    Would SHE be interested in getting its health and hygiene education materials into the Sugar Labs program for Replacing Textbooks, as a Free OER to be provided with OLPC XO laptops as Rwanda rolls them out? We would be interested in whatever they have in Kinyarwanda, French, or English, and would then offer them for translation to be used in other countries.
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As Southern Sudan looks to nationhood, education is pivotal | Back on Track - 0 views

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  • At the end of this week, Southern Sudan will become an independent nation. Citizens of the newest country in the world, the people of Southern Sudan face immense challenges and immediate threats.
  • They also stand before a unique opportunity to build a country that is free of war, respectful of human rights and prosperous. Education will play a pivotal role in the future stability and economic development of Southern Sudan.
  • more than 100,000 Sudanese civilians have been displaced due to recent clashes over the contested border district of Abyei. About half of them are children who are being exposed to hunger, violence and disease. They are often separated from their parents and out of school due to the conflict.
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  • Southern Sudan ranks second to last when it comes to primary school enrolment, with almost 1.3 million children of primary school age out of school.
  • For the girls, the situation is even worse. Only around 8 per cent of women in Southern Sudan are literate, giving it one of the lowest female literacy rates in the world.
  • “When we first began, there were hardly any girls in the classroom, maybe two or three,” she said. “But now, in a classroom of 60, [there] would be 27 to, sometimes, half” of the class composed of girl students.
  • “The teacher-parent associations are getting stronger,” she said. “We really need to create community awareness.”
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Eritrea: Over 1,290 Teachers Who Pursued Distance Learning Graduate - 0 views

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  • Speaking at the graduation ceremony today, the Vice President of the Eritrean Institute of Technology, Dr. Gebreberhan Ogbazgi, noted the significance of distance learning program in tackling shortage of teachers, and such a program should be enhanced.
  • Likewise, the Minister of Education, Mr. Semere Russom, stressed the paramount importance of upgrading the competence of teachers
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allAfrica.com: Namibia: Quality, Shortages, and Concerns of Teachers - 0 views

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  • What is lacking, however, is specialised training of teachers, which limit the implementation of inclusive training, he said.
  • Few teachers have specialised training, and none have formal training for multigrade teaching. This means that there is a lack of skills to pitch lessons at different grades, while many teachers generally struggle with classroom management.
  • A shortage of teachers in the fields of accounting, mathematics, languages, computer studies and geography has been identified.
  • Teachers Without Borders on 08 Jul 11
     
    AVAILABLE figures point out that the majority of teachers have Grade 12 with at least three years' tertiary education. "So, who is fooling who?" questioned Minister of Education Abraham Iyambo, in obvious reference to the less than satisfactory performance of most schools. What is lacking, however, is specialised training of teachers, which limit the implementation of inclusive training, he said. Few teachers have specialised training, and none have formal training for multigrade teaching. This means that there is a lack of skills to pitch lessons at different grades, while many teachers generally struggle with classroom management.
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Creative writing tests limit creativity, Sats review finds | Education | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • A writing test taken by 11-year-olds in England should be scrapped because it stops children being creative, a government review has found.Ministers asked Lord Bew, a crossbench peer, to review Sats – tests in maths and English taken by 600,000 pupils every May – after a quarter of primary schools boycotted the exams last year.Bew's team of headteachers found that the writing test does not allow children to demonstrate their imagination because it looks for formulaic answers.
  • The Bew review recommends that teachers assess creative writing throughout the school year, instead of in a single test.
  • The review team also urged the government to ensure that schools are judged over three years of results rather than one and given a rolling average in league tables.
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  • The National Association of Head Teachers "cautiously welcomed" Bew's report.Russell Hobby, general secretary of the NAHT, said teacher assessment for writing would "reduce drilling and give both parents and secondary schools a far more accurate picture of pupils' achievement".
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