To succeed in the global economy, students need to think like entrepreneurs. Zhao unlocks secrets to cultivating independent thinkers who can create jobs and contribute positively to the globalized society.
This book teaches how to build a globalised learning environment that leverages experts and school partnerships to foster students' entrepreneurial competencies with this resource-packed follow up to Zhao's World Class Learners.
Based on the lessons of World Class Learners this new series will show educators at all levels what it takes to help students be more insightful, creative, communicative, technically skilled, and decisive.
How to Make Personalization and Student Autonomy Happen
This first book in a new series shows educators at all levels what it takes to help students become more insightful, creative, communicative, technically skilled, and decisive. This book gives practical guidance to implement the new education paradigm-the entrepreneur-oriented education paradigm-outlined in the Corwin publication World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students. This book on Personalized Education expands the elements of a world-class education that aims to cultivate globally competent, creative, and entrepreneurial talents with practical ideas and examples that correlate closely to 21stCentury demands for students with technical skills, creativity, decision making capacity and great communication skills.
Technology has transformed our lives. Virtually every school and classroom is connected. Why then, has it not transformed education? Consider these five ways educators can begin to optimize classroom technology and rethink its use. See technology as a complement rather than a replacement Embrace its creation potential over consumption function Encourage design and personalized learning over standards and outcomes Celebrate the journey toward digital competence over curriculum improvement Focus on tech-pedagogy over product usage Learn how to let technology cultivate student autonomy, creativity, and responsibility while focusing on lessons that hone higher-order and critical thinking skills.
Understanding, Negotiating, and Maximizing Your Influence as a School Leader
As schools grapple with an array of social, economic, and political challenges, education leaders must hone their focus on important tasks and learn how to navigate bureaucratic constraints, policies, and parental concerns while fostering change. This essential guide proposes that school leaders become "brave and focused," not by abandoning ......
Confronting and Correcting Dubious Practices in Education
In the 1950s and 1960s, students practiced ducking under their desks in case of an atomic bomb attack. We know that this was silly and provided no protection and many school practices that are popular today are equally silly. This book explores a wide range of what the authors label "duck and cover" policies-ideas that may have started for good ......
