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Increasing Student Autonomy Through Time and Place

By Tim Johnson & Tony Winch
11-May-21

Tim Johnson and Tony Winch decided to give more autonomy and control to their students. Some failed to prioritize work, but many adapted well. The new approach generally made students more responsible for their learning, boosted achievement, and taught critical skills. ..more

Learning Progresses With Effective Feedback

By Dr. Karen L. Taylor
11-May-21

In an ideal world, feedback and instruction are intertwined and multidirectional. Karen Taylor offers some thoughts on how to make sure that the feedback we offer students is focused specifically on how to improve their work and takes form of questions rather than instructions. ..more

What Will the Future of International Education Be? Five Lessons in Superforecasting

By David Willows
27-Apr-21

The entire future of how our schools will function appears to be the subject of some considerable debate and not an insignificant amount of opinion and conjecture. Problem is, people are not very good at making predictions. ..more

The Ability to Follow Thoughts Carefully and Control One’s Attention Are Prerequisites for Learning

By Dr Karen L. Taylor
15-Mar-21

One of the challenges of teaching is to capture students’ attention when they enter the classroom and to keep it. Which means being aware of attention span and cycles of attention in relation to the rhythm of the lesson. ..more

An Introduction to Metacognition

By Michael Griffin
15-Mar-21

Metacognition is about thinking. It is about knowing not only what you think, but why you think it and how you arrived at your thoughts. Metacognition is about active learning. It is empowering. Effective teachers foster a metacognitive learning approach, to generate better quality thinking. ..more

Divided Views on Distance Learning: A Glimpse Into Three Students’ Lives

By Sena Chang
03-Sep-20

The abrupt change in pedagogy at The American School in Japan (ASIJ) brought on by the pandemic has sparked many conversations about the effectiveness and value of digital learning. Three middle schoolers shared their views with ASIJ student Sena Chang. ..more

The Sound of One Hand High-Fiving

By Matthew Dicks
15-Jul-20

We might be raising the first generation of children who truly understand the value of school and appreciate all of the educational opportunities that have been afforded to them. Unfortunately, it is coming at great cost. ..more

Adopting a Future-as-Present Frame of Mind

By Emily Sargent-Beasley
15-Jul-20

No longer is there a chance to kneel beside a child, smile from across the room, or nudge with clear feedback using a tone that invites listening and understanding. The traditional toolkit has been left behind. Each tool now feels as if it must be replaced. ..more

Moving from an Industrial to a Postindustrial Model

By Julie Wilson
22-May-20

Changing a system is one of the most challenging things to do. If we are saying that we want to support more creativity, collaboration, and appetite for risk in schools, then the organizational structure, systems, and processes must change significantly in order to support and reflect that pedagogy. ..more

The Hidden Cost of Professional Development and an Industry’s Hypocrisy

By Robert van der Eyken
08-Apr-20

In this reflective piece, Robert van der Eyken invites the international education community to engage in more critical self-examination about how much our words for sustainability align with our actions. His message takes on new meaning in light of the global health crisis. ..more

Piloting Education 4.0 Prompted by the Coronavirus Crisis

By Shwetangna Chakrabarty
17-Feb-20

Education 4.0 is a term used to describe the ways in which we need to prepare students for the fourth industrial revolution, or the advent of the 22nd century. Guangzhou Nanfang International School in China has had the opportunity to pilot Education 4.0—albeit under duress. ..more

The Hard Work of Innovation in Schools

By Ewan McIntosh
05-Feb-20

Independent schools are swiftly abandoning traditionally static long-term strategy planning. Instead, they’re adopting agile approaches to designing strategy so that they engage their whole community in changing how they think about what’s possible in school. But this process of agile innovation isn’t all fun and games. ..more

Thinking Math: A Conceptual Approach to Math Instruction

By Vicky Placeres
03-Jan-20

This year, the elementary school at Uruguayan American School adopted the Math In Focus program, based on the Singapore Math Approach for Grades 1–5. This program emphasizes collaboration, discussion, the use of models, and multiple problem-solving strategies. ..more

Six Reasons to Start a Travel Program at Your School

By Sara Segar
05-Jun-19

Traveling as a teenager with purpose, accompanied by trusted advisors and peers, is an invaluable learning experience. A school travel program gives students the resources, support, and guidance to make educational travel a reality. ..more

Future-Ready Learning

By Helen Kelly
22-May-19

Successful change leadership in this context involves leaders not only developing a vision for future-ready learning and providing structures for implementation but also attending to the emotional climate in which they are operating. ..more

Theory into Practice: 21st-Century Learning and the Learner Profile

By Maritte Moskovics
14-Feb-19

To define the UAS learner profile, we all worked together as a community of educators, students, and parents to create the conditions that will help our students be globally aware, creative, emotionally intelligent, and collaborative critical thinkers. ..more

Closing Relevance Gaps and Building Schools of the Future

By Scott McLeod
19-Dec-18

Like most institutions in society, international schools are realizing that the intertwined, very disruptive forces of technology and globalization require us to rethink things, often at an elemental level. As they reassess, they are typically focused on four big shifts. ..more

Time to Update the Program: Reimagining School with Will Richardson

By Meadow Hilley, TIE Editor
30-Mar-18

Over the past dozen years, Will Richardson has become an outspoken advocate for change in schools worldwide. Writing and speaking about the intersection of social online learning networks and education, Will has worked with educators in over 20 countries to understand the opportunities and challenges of learning in the modern world. ..more

TASIS Leadership Academy Explores Entrepreneurship & Service in the Balkans

By Daniel Ware
27-Sep-18

Students from TASIS The American School in England (TASIS England) recently participated in a 12-day trip to the Balkans as part of the TASIS Leadership Academy (TLA) with the aim of exploring political and diplomatic leadership, as well as conflict resolution. ..more

International College Adopts the Danielson Framework for the New Academic Year

By Richard Bampfylde
27-Sep-18

International College (IC), Lebanon, one of the largest international schools in the world with over 3,600 students across two campuses, has successfully integrated the world-renowned Danielson Framework into its educational practices. ..more

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