Teaching Abroad

Paraphrasing remains a critical skill in academic classrooms and in the larger world. The ability to re-phrase and re-state, usually called paraphrasing, allows students to confirm information, accurately convey information, and avoid plagiarism problems in writing papers. Paraphrasing, usually quite emphasized in ESL and EFL writing classes, deserves some attention in conversation class too. Students should learn to confirm information by asking clarification questions. Some useful...Read Full Story

$10,000 down the drain Continuing in our series of Migrant Stories: first hand accounts of migrant life in New Zealand, taken from locations around the net. This tale is taken from Expatexposed , a support forum for migrants in New Zealand. The poster is a fully qualified American teacher who believed that New Zealand has a skills shortage and that people in her profession are needed there. Unfortunately she found out, after considerable expense to herself, she wasn’t needed at all and that...Read Full Story

 Singapore Continuing in our series of Migrant Stories: first hand accounts of migrant life in New Zealand, taken from locations around the net. Today's story is taken from Expatexposed , a self-help and support forum for migrants in New Zealand. In this post the child of an ex-pat New Zealander tells of how the family left the relative safety of Singapore and relocated to the father's homeland in a fruitless attempt to give the three kids a "better education." Within a month of the family's...Read Full Story

1992 was a strange period of anxiety tension and stress for all South Africans especially Black folks. I suppose business too had a lot of pressure and the concern was what will happen if the ANC becomes the ruling party after 1994? For parents and teachers who were active in the changing landscape of South African politics, a majority was confused and clueless what form and shape education will take. In the same 1992, I was a non executive member of the school governing body at AB Xuma...Read Full Story

国际儿童心理学家协会展示了全世界超过 538 万同行就创意教育进行的研究结果。在此之后不到一个月的时间，温家宝总理也提出中国学校需要加强创意和创新教育。这难道只是一个巧合吗？众所周知，在 55 年前，爱因斯坦就说过 “想象力比知识更重要.” 尽管中国学生的数学、心算和考试水平在全世界排名第一，但他们在创意方面位居倒数。北京师范大学的研究表明，目前的教学方法主要依靠机械性记忆。大部分学生在考试后的 60 天之内，会忘掉 80% “学到”的内容。（记住就等于学到了吗？） 令人惊讶的是，明朝时期的中国是当时世界上最有创意的地方，创造了全世界超过 60% 的发明。但是今天，中国只创造出了全世界不到 2% 的新发明 。事实上，想法离不开想象力，而想象力离不开充满创意的头脑。 应感谢 Drama Rainbow, 中国孩子现在可以开发他们的想象力，让他们创意的思潮尽情流动在这个独一无二的学习中心。这里使用的是来自英国的教育戏剧（ DiE ）。这种独特且高效的教学方法已在欧洲流行了超过 25...Read Full Story