Connection, Diversity, Mobility: A New Age for International Schools in China
FIRST IMPRESSIONS Xi’an is a city with diversity at its roots. Located at the start of the old Silk Road,
Active 8th Graders
A renovation of a district’s schools, Hall Middle, helped propel the administration and faculty to embrace active learning.
A Revised Lesson Plan for Student Success
There’s growing concern among students, parents, educators, administrators, governments and employers: The return on investment in education needs bolstering, and
Classroom Redesign Improves Reading
A modern, flexible approach to learning doubled homework completion rates and reading targets.
The Effects of a Stimulating Learning Environment
A dynamic and constantly changing reality requires adaptation and change in educational approaches: the student is no longer to be seen as a passive receptacle for knowledge, but as an active participant in the construction of knowledge.
Active Learning Centers Impact Education
After reimagining the classroom, 12 educational institutions find that their Active Learning Centers result in enhanced collaboration and supported instructor-led changes in pedagogy among other positive outcomes.
Activating the Classroom
It’s just one of nearly 300 classrooms on the five campuses of HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, but it’s had an outsized impact at the institution.
Teaching the Creative Process: Think, Make, Share
Story problems have been a teaching staple since ancient times, but now they’re ancient history at Beaver Country Day School.
Ohalo College Embraces Active Learning
Ohalo College in Katzrin, Israel, takes an innovative approach to space, pedagogy and technology to educate a new generation of teachers, putting it at the leading edge of faculty development and training.
CATS College Cambridge
Recognizing the critical interdependency of pedagogy, technology and the spatial environment for successful active learning, in 2013 CATS Cambridge began planning for a brand-new, state-of-the-art facility.
St. Andrew’s Anglican College Learning Hub
Overview St. Andrew’s Anglican College is an independent private school providing education for 1200 students in Years 1 through 12
New Tools for a New Future
India has been straining for years to reach an ambitious goal of educating all of its children, but is still struggling with low engagement in the classroom and a high dropout rate. Resources and ideas from countries with similar goals could help.