Intelligence interculturelle : l'impératif de l'éducation nationale - Les Echos Accueil Jusqu'à présent, l'intelligence interculturelle n'intéressait qu'un petit monde. Pourquoi est-il devenu urgent de l'intégrer à l'enseignement général ? A Parent's Resource Guide to Social and Emotional Learning Encouraging Kindness and Empathy Cultivating Kindness and Compassion in Children (Center for Child and Family Well-Being, University of Washington, 2014) This summary of a public lecture by Kimberly Schonert-Reichl underscores the importance of promoting social and emotional learning, reviews some of the research about cultivating kindness and compassion in children, and discusses five practical strategies that parents can try. For even more parent tips, read Schonert-Reichl's Kindness Booklet. Why It’s Imperative to Teach Empathy to Boys (KQED MindShift, 2014) Gayle Allen and Deborah Farmer Kris discuss the importance of empathy and the gender stereotypes that may put boys at risk for failing to learn this important skill; the authors describe three strategies that parents of boys can implement.
3 Stories That Reveal How Important Arts Education Really Is The arts have always had a secondary place in K-12 learning. If you doubt that statement, think of the first programs to go whenever budget cuts are implemented – music, fine arts and even physical fitness which includes dance. I’ve yet to hear of a school board or administrators discussing the way cutting math programs could help the school’s bottom line. There is a hierarchy of academics in America, and arts education tends to fall pretty low on the totem pole. Let’s look at three notable events that show the state of arts education in America and what that reveals about our society. New York City schools lack arts education—and low-income students suffer the most. Teacher to parents: About THAT kid (the one who hits, disrupts and influences YOUR kid) Amy Murray is the director of early childhood education at the Calgary French & International School in Canada. The following post, which appeared on her blog, Miss Night’s Marbles and which I am republishing with her permission, is a powerful open letter directed to parents about THAT kid, the one other kids go home and talk about, the one who is violent, curses and gets angry in class, the one who parents worry will hurt, disrupt and perhaps influence their own children. Murray is also the co-founder of #Kinderchat (www.kinderchat.net), a twitter-based global community for educators of young children. She is a speaker and trainer on learning through play, self-regulation, behavior management, and the use of technology within the classroom. (IStockphoto) Dear Parent:
Learning and Health The sectors of health and education serve the same youth, in the same locations, and are often treating the same or related issues. The child who is unhealthy—physically, socially, emotionally, or mentally—struggles to excel in school just as the child who is underprepared by education struggles to maintain health and well-being, often for years to come. Learning and health are symbiotic, with one serving and supporting the other.
A Parent’s Guide to School Shootings I walked into the high school wearing two guns and a bullet resistant vest. I had a rifle, six spare magazines, and a ballistic helmet stashed close by in my car. It was Wednesday, April 21st 1999, the day after what had been the worst school shooting in United States history. Two high school kids had just killed 12 of their fellow students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Colorado. The television was awash in the news coverage and everyone was scared. Ces révolutionnaires venus d’Asie La révolution éducative annoncée pourrait venir d’Asie. Si de plus en plus de voix s’élèvent partout en occident et ailleurs pour remettre en question le système éducatif actuel, l’Inde me semble être pour l’instant le pays le plus avancé dans cette révolution, indépendamment du fait qu’aucune université indienne ne figure dans le top 100 du classement des meilleures universités du Monde. « Dans une société ignorante, le pouvoir se structure autour de la domination physique. Dans la société de l’information, je ne peux pas prendre par la force une information. Je dois devenir votre ami pour que vous la partagiez. C’est un chemin vers la non-violence ».Sugata Mitra.
25 Ways to Ask Your Kids 'So How Was School Today?' Without Asking Them 'So How Was School Today?' This year, Simon is in fourth grade and Grace is in first grade, and I find myself asking them every day after school, "So how was school today?" And every day I get an answer like "fine" or "good," which doesn't tell me a whole lot. Or at least get a full sentence. So the other night, I sat down and made a list of more engaging questions to ask about school. They aren't perfect, but I do at least get complete sentences, and some have led to some interesting conversations... and hilarious answers... and some insights into how my kids think and feel about school.
About In today’s K12 schools, students usually encounter potentially related skills and content knowledge in different classes, at different times in the school year, and with few connections between traditional content areas – math, science, social studies, and language arts. While this subject-centered approach allows for specialization, too often it promotes compartmentalized thinking, fortifies intellectual barriers, and snuffs out cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural epiphanies that are essential for navigating a 21st century marketplace. By making contemporary, real-world issues the organizers of the curriculum, students (1) become more engaged in school and (2) are forced to think along multidisciplinary and multicultural lines in order to address broad, complex questions and offer real-world solutions.
Many Ways to Tell a Story: How Transmedia Is Transforming Education In and Out of Classrooms For one language arts class project, a middle school teacher in Shelburne, Virginia, Chad Sansing, asks his sixth graders to read Peter Cherches’s 1986 poem “Lift Your Right Arm,” and then translate it into computer code. The poem occurs in action sequences—for example, “Lift your right arm, she said./I lifted my right arm.” Sansing and his class conceive a list of actions, sketch ideas of how to code them, using icons or letters, and then code the poem. In doing so, the students become producers of both a new language and way of seeing poetry. Sansing’s students have also translated the poem’s code into Scratch, to create animation, and into LEGO Mindstorms EV3, a robot-programming language.
TransmediaMIX: a Transdisciplinary Hackathon in a... Registration, Paris Invalid quantity. Please enter a quantity of 1 or more. The quantity you chose exceeds the quantity available. Please enter your name. Please enter an email address. Transmedia Education: Learn with Stories — Transmedia SF My first formal exposure to transmedia was in my university class called Digital Culture, taught by English professor Gideon Burton. Although transmedia was only part of what we covered in that class, it became one of the most groundbreaking classes in my college experience. Gideon Burton conducted his class differently from most other professors, especially the other English professors. It was tailored to our interests and had some value outside of the university. We didn’t just turn in a paper to be read only by the professor.