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Latest posts
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What is internationalisation?
In the old days, if you were a teacher and fancied a training course at the EU’s expense all you needed to do was leaf through the course database and persuade your boss to do without you for a week. Now it’s not so simple and staff development funding like this has to be part…
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Why residential?
Effective teacher development does not just happen in courses. Mentoring, coaching, peer evaluation, observation, lesson study and personal journaling are all valuable approaches. So why do we propose a residential course for getting to grips with the basics of culturally responsive teaching?
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Uncovering hidden talents
Most of us can do more than we think. Often it is a case of raising awareness and re-framing. In the case of the many people who have spent years running a household,it is about how those skills could easily translate into an entrepreneurial setting. This is what we were attempting in the M-HOUSE project,…
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The wider audience
I just joined Zaretta Hammond‘s Facebook group (author of CRT & the brain) and she pointed me to an article in the Irish Times about the need for CRT in schools there. The article describes the need for culturally responsive teaching given the dedicated but homogeneous cohort of staff in Irish schools at the moment…
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Home-made clocks
Although this one relates to school rather than adult education, the case of the clock that a teacher thought was a bomb illustrates many aspects of the need for culturally responsive teaching.
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CRT & the brain
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students This is a book by Zaretta Hammond which was published this year by Corwin Press and is an excellent reference even for those of us working in adult education. Hammond takes us through the brain processes which both lead…
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CRT Webinar
Thanks to everyone who attended my session on culturally responsive teaching yesterday as part of the Fall Blog Festival. It wasn’t easy to enter the webinar room so if you missed it, the 30 minute recording is below: One of the most powerful things that came out of the session for me was the importance…
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Fall Blog Festival
Meet me at the Fall Blog Festival where I will be exploring what culturally responsive teaching (CRT) is and why we need to address the issue in our classrooms (from K12 to adult). Find out what CRT requires of the teacher and a few of the practical approaches you can take starting tomorrow. I will…
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Let’s make a European plan!
I am looking for partners to join me on a new MOOC which started today. If you are interested in how to help educational organisations develop their internationalisation (or a European Development Plan for EU funding) then it would be great to work with you. This is a 11 week learning project.
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Global Collaboration Day
Why would you want to involve others in an already culturally diverse classroom? In the last podcast I gave a shout out to Global Collaboration Day (GCD)on September 17th. This is a new initiative but follows in the footsteps of others such as Skype in the Classroom, Flat Classroom (now Flat Connections) and the Day…