For Milan Patel, class of ‘09 at Miami Valley School, it was a moment he will never forget. More than 3,000 miles away from the comforts of home, he stood in Buena Vista, Peru, surrounded by a group of villagers who only spoke Spanish. This was no ordinary high school Spanish exam.
FLASHBACK: Students spend Immersion teaching Peruvian villagers about recycling.
Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education — the best teachers and schools don’t exist where they’re needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.
Researchers examined the impact of a particular professional development model, the Teacher Study Group, on first grade teachers’ instructional practice and knowledge in reading comprehensino and vocabulary and on student achievement in these areas….
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This lesson plan will help you introduce and ‘teach’ your students about the ideas behind service learning.
Check out Janet Maslin’s review of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother along with other links…
Amy Chua’s ‘Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother’ – Review – NYTimes.com.
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