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allAfrica.com: Kenya: Hire Teachers Or Face Strike, Knut Tells State - 0 views

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  • Teachers Without Borders on 24 Jun 11
     
    Union boss David Osiany said despite setting a target to employ 28,000 teachers by 2012, the government decided not to allocate money in this year's estimates. "It is obvious the government has overlooked the current teachers deficit that is now taking its toll on the quality of education and we cannot just sit and watch as education standards are compromised," Osiany said.
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Teacher Blog: A Sobering Reflection at Year's End - 0 views

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    Our teacher blogger relates the school year to his wild collegiate days on the beaches of Daytona...
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The fourth R - helping stressed-out students relax - Parentcentral.ca - 0 views

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    Concerned at the growing number of students diagnosed with clinical depression and anxiety disorders - and more who seem headed that way, especially in Grade 9 - North Toronto Collegiate has launched an unusual program to teach teens how to handle the stress thrust on them by parents, the school system, and themselves. Through lunch workshops in meditation and kick-boxing, laughter therapy and yoga and even listening to new-age music played on crystals, the school is trying to teach kids what guidance head Michelle de Braux calls "the fourth R - relaxation."
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Teachers in Zurich will receive a handbook with details of 14 languages to help communi... - 0 views

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  • Teachers in Zurich are to receive a language handbook with vocabulary and basic information about the 14 main immigrant languages to help ease communication. With one in three students coming from foreign-language homes, the manual is designed to help in situations such as parent-teacher meetings as well as in German language classes.
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World Education - Feature Stories - Zimbabwe: Using Soccer to Fight HIV - 1 views

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  • Grassroots Soccer is an innovative organization that uses the power of soccer as an entry point to achieve its main objective of providing rigorous health education, focusing on HIV and AIDS
  • Led by coaches, in addition to engaging students in critical learning about HIV prevention, the program provides psychosocial support and the opportunity for kids to form trusting relationships with responsible adults who are role models.
  • the Grassroots approach of using fun and games achieves results. In a 2007 evaluation, it was found that children who went through the program had significantly reduced incidences of multiple sex partners compared to children who did not participate.
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Video Series - Improving Education in Mexico - 1 views

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    Video Series: "Improving Education in Mexico" Mexico has participated in every cycle of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) since 2000. Inspired by PISA 2009 results and in the context of the cooperation agreement with Mexico, a video series entitled "Improving Education in Mexico" has been developed. The series consists of five short video segments (5 to 6 minutes), available in English and Spanish, that cover the following themes
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Chileans rally in capital to demand better education policies - CNN.com - 0 views

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    Tens of thousands of people marched through Chile's capital Thursday, demanding lower tuition and other reforms in the nation's education system.
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BBC News - UK pupils 'among least likely to overcome tough start' - 0 views

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  • The UK performs poorly in an international league table showing how many disadvantaged pupils succeed "against the odds" at school. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has studied how pupils from poor backgrounds can succeed academically.
  • It says that "self-confidence" is a key factor in whether such pupils succeed. The UK comes behind Mexico and Tunisia in the table - with the top places taken by Asian countries.
  • The study from the international economic organisation looks at whether there is an inevitable link between disadvantaged backgrounds and a cycle of poor school results and limited job prospects.
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  • Using science test results from the major international PISA study, which compares the performance of different education systems, it shows that there are wide differences in the levels of resilience.
  • Among countries, South Korea, Finland, Japan, Turkey and Canada are the most successful in terms of poorer pupils achieving high results.
  • But the UK is well below average and at the lower end of this ranking of resilience, with only 24% showing such examples of "resilience".
  • Believing that they are likely to succeed in exams is an important part of how they actually perform. The study argues that mentoring schemes can be particularly beneficial.
  • There is also a link between longer hours in class studying a subject and the improved chances of poorer pupils. It is also says that motivation is important - but in the form of a "personal, internal drive" rather than the promise of a reward or an incentive.
  • "All of these findings suggest that schools may have an important role to play in fostering resilience," says the report. "They could start by providing more opportunities for disadvantaged students to learn in class by developing activities, classroom practices and teaching methods that encourage learning and foster motivation and self-confidence among those students."
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Words come to life when they're at your fingertips - 1 views

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  • Dominic, 6, from St Mary's Primary School in Erskineville, is one of the students whose command of technology is being harnessed in the trial use of iPads to boost literacy skills. Teachers in the Sydney Catholic diocese are trialling the iPads with children in reading recovery, a remedial program for year 1 students, with encouraging results.
  • The trial is in its early stages but integrating the iPad into lessons ''seems to unleash an engagement in learning, an increase in motivation and previously unseen independence in the reading and writing process''.
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allAfrica.com: Uganda: All Teachers Colleges Close, Citing No Cash - 0 views

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  • All the 45 government-aided primary teachers colleges in the country have closed due to lack of funds to meet their operational costs less than a month after the term opened. Students were sent home on Monday and some who had remained at the institutions left yesterday. "We have no option," said Mr John Arinaitwe, the Principals Association of Uganda (PAU) chairman. "We have sent the students home to avert possible strikes because they are apparently doing nothing here."
  • Government pays a unit cost of Shs1,800 daily for each student in a college. The money covers the students' meals, medical care and stationery.
  • A senior principal, who preferred anonymity to speak freely about their predicament, said the government has for a long time been releasing money in instalments, making the institutions accumulate debts. "We have too many debts and the suppliers can no longer give us things on credit," he said. "If you give me money in halves, do you want me to teach half of the syllabus or you want me to teach half of the term?
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  • The action taken by the colleges comes a day after private secondary schools implementing the free education scheme also threatened to close at the end of this month if capitation funds are not disbursed to them.
  • Teachers Without Borders on 21 Jun 11
     
    Uganda: All Teachers Colleges Close, Citing No Cash
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Senior UN official lauds new initiative to get Haitian children into school - 0 views

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  • 14 June 2011 – The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has welcomed the $360 million fund launched by Haiti’s new President to ensure the most disadvantaged children in the country can go to school. The National Fund for Education (FNE), announced two weeks ago by President Michel Martelly is the biggest fund of its kind ever envisaged for out-of-school children in the impoverished Caribbean nation.
  • It is chiefly composed of a five-cent deduction on incoming international phone calls and $1.50 on international money transfers.
  • The resources identified so far should allow around 350,000 children to go to school in the first year, according to UNESCO, and a total of 1.9 million children are expected to benefit overall.
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Global Peace Studies | A Resource Site for Teaching and Learning Peace - 4 views

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    This website is dedicated, maintained, and developed for teachers and learners of peace. If you are interested in contributing lesson plans, resources, and your own peace pedagogy expertise, please contact daryncambridge@gmail.com
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Societies Tackling AIDS through Rights (STAR) | Soul Beat Africa - 1 views

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    Societies Tackling AIDS through Rights (STAR) is designed to be a comprehensive integrated methodology which combines the strength of participatory learning about HIV and AIDS with empowerment and social change
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Possessive Nouns | Articles - 1 views

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    Resources to help you teach possessive nouns.
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