Introduction In a previous article we looked at how the Common Ground Collaborative (CGC) set about creating a complete, connected, Learning Ecosystem, using Four Guiding Questions. The first of these, ‘What is Learning?’, the CGC’s ‘Define’ question, has provided an…
…HARD! I don’t know about you, but I think making friends outside of your school community can be one of your biggest challenges when you live abroad. If you are an outgoing person, maybe it is a bit easier. However,…
The Common Ground Collaborative (CGC) is re-inventing the learning game as one simple ecosystem. In this series of articles we’ll unpack the CGC story, sharing our work with ISC readers. A few years back, the CGC team looked at the…
Life as an international teacher requires you to be incredibly flexible as you move between countries, cultures, and schools. But nothing has required as much of a willingness to adapt and evolve my practice as being locked in my apartment…
Sharon (Pseudonym) and I arrived back in Shanghai yesterday morning, after a quick decision to return before it became difficult. We travelled from Edinburgh and transited in Paris before on to Shanghai. In Edinburgh and Paris it was business as…
Insights from a Middle School Teacher at Saigon South International School As we head into our fifth week of Virtual School in Vietnam, I think back to the day it was announced that students would not be returning to campus…
As an educator in China this is a crazy time! I am an Elementary School teacher at a well established international school in Beijing. I couldn’t be more pleased with how well this crisis has been handled by our school…
We all seem to know somebody in the international school community that is being affected by the health scare in Asia connected to the Coronavirus. But how are those international schools coping with this situation? What are the teachers’ responsibilities?…
It was a privilege to speak at the Council of International Schools Conference in Melbourne recently. The educators committed to educating for global citizenship and an ethical world, were inspiring. Didactic teaching, while worthy, will have many students repeating the…
As a new cohort of graduating teachers look forward to their first role as newly qualified teachers, I reflected on how mine was coming to an end and contemplated on advice I would have given myself at the beginning of…
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