Pathways to Your North Star | TIE Newsletter 29 September 2021 | The International Educator (TIE Online)

29 September 2021

By Tanay Naik

White students who grow up in multicultural settings will witness prejudice. As schools, we have done little to teach our students what allyship really looks like. I challenge you to consider, what are you noticing in your schools? What are the lived experiences of your students and how are you acknowledging them? What is your action plan, your "north star" for DEIJ work?...more

THE LEARNING PRINCIPLES

All Learning is Personal

By Dr. Karen L. Taylor

A profound understanding of the conditions necessary for deep learning leads naturally to high quality teaching. Consequently, classroom practice is ideally based on research-informed principles of learning that draw from a wide range of current research in education, cognitive and social psychology, and neurobiology, all of which contribute to deepening our understanding of how human beings acquire and retain knowledge to make meaning of their world... more

Moving Beyond Inclusion: Integrating Critical Gender Analysis into Social Studies Curricula

By Sinéad Fitzsimons

The intersectionality of gender, sexuality, and power has been widely studied by academics seeking to identify and deconstruct the often white, Eurocentric, colonial, patriarchal, heteronormative gaze that dominates a significant portion of popular history, but this is often not incorporated in social studies curricula... more

Pearls of Wisdom: Being Deliberately Conscious

By David Miles

We must be "conscious and deliberate in all that we do because we provide examples to those we teach and in doing so we either reinforce old narratives or contribute to the creation of newer stories."... more

New Report and Response from International Schools About University Admissions

By Anne Keeling

International schools and higher education institutions share a goal to support the international student pathway to higher education. This has been severely tested during COVID-19.... more

The Right Direction

By Neil Morgan Griffiths

As a Physical Education specialist, teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic has presented a wealth of opportunity to engage in reflection, especially when we consider whether our recent practices have supported our ultimate goal, developing physical literacy in our students... more

The Path to the Future

By Ahaan Chakrabarty, Year 11

Ahaan Chakrabarty, at TEDxYouth@UISG uses Fermi's Paradox as a lens to discuss the global issues that we face right now and the importance of addressing them to achieve greater peace and good... more

What's Worth Learning ...and Why?

By Kevin Bartlett

"What body of knowledge is important for these learners, right now?" As we set out to identify learning that really matters, we framed our DESIGN question like this: "What's Worth Learning and Why?" more

Co-Creating Classroom Culture: Building Teams

By Jeff Utecht

The Shifting Schools podcast shares conversations with thought leaders around shifting school culture. In this episode hear contributors from around the world offer perspectives on how to co-create teams in our classrooms and PLCs...more

Alsama Refugee School Brings Light Back into the Classroom (Literally)

By Emma Chittleburgh

Alsama is an educational charity based in the Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon, serving 500 refugee teenagers. Fed up with the constant shortages, Alsama decided to turn the electricity crisis into an opportunity for inter-disciplinary problem solving...more

Reflections on the Past: Mission Creep and School Administration

By Robert Van der Eyken

In consultation with AISH school leaders from around the world, it is clear that efficiency and effectiveness start at the top. Distributive leadership, delegating more leadership tasks to more non-administrators is key...more

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By Daniel Kerr

So last week at our new family orientation event, I ran into a joyfully bright eyed and eager second grade girl who could not have been more excited about starting her new school life at ASP. She was mostly excited about the idea of making new friends, and she went on to tell me at length all about her foolproof strategy, which made me tear up and burst out laughing all at the same time... more

Teach for Peace: International Day of Peace

By Shwetangna Chakrabarty

21st September is celebrated as the International Day of Peace. The United Nations (UN) General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, through observing 24 hours of non-violence and cease-fire.... more

Embracing Wonder and Grace

By Matthew Piercy

It was the first day of a new school year. At lunchtime a message appeared in my inbox with the subject line, "Where will you be teaching in 2022?" It would be errant to claim this to be the first wind I caught of peering into and "preparing" for the future. Days prior, colleagues shared how they already registered with international recruitment agencies. A part of me was left reeling, falling perfectly into the "trap" of the subject line.... more

GLOBAL BOOK REVIEWS

Books About School

By Margriet Ruurs

Children's books, including picture books and novels, are not just for little ones. Some children's books should be called 'everybody books'. And some can be especially good for educators to read. Here are some that will work particularly well at the beginning of a new school year to share as read-alouds by librarians, classroom teachers, counsellors or administrators... more