Shut Down Due to Health Emergency: Four Stories from International Schools in China and Vietnam
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? Where are the teachers doing the online teaching? Which technologies are they using? What is […]
Story Journey As a Pathway to Global Citizenship
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 dictums that they have been taught, without understanding, empathy and/or application. When the students work […]
10 tips for my NQT self
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 mine and how I might have done things differently. My A-level chemistry teacher on my […]