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Location, Location, Location – The Dubai education sector’s next big challenge

It’s the silly season, and this time of the year always brings pressure and the odd curve ball to the education sector. I don’t think I’m alone in thinking that September is going to be a huge month in many ways, and what plays out may shape the sector for the next academic year. The …

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Teachers have to learn too

Throughout my career as a teacher and education leader, I have been trying to understand teachers’ training better, because you would think that the profession would be good at it; but it isn’t. It was refreshing to read Lorna Eagle’s foreword to this very good New Zealand study by Helen Timperley and others. Lorna points …

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The idea of ‘deep schooling’

In one of my favourite reports on teaching and learning – the distinguished 2000 study of cognitive science published by John Bransford (et al.) for the US National Research Council, titled ‘How People Learn’ – there is a beautiful piece of writing about what makes for great teaching. It is called, “Imagine Three Teachers”. It is a …

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