What can the American and British education systems learn from classrooms in the developing world? Genki English

Monday, August 18, 2014

What can the American and British education systems learn from classrooms in the developing world? Genki English

What can the American and British education systems learn from classrooms in the developing world?

Posted: 17 Aug 2014 04:33 PM PDT

TED.com have just put up another great new article about what we can all learn from classrooms in the developing world.

It features Adam Braun – whose fantastic Pencils of Promise book is a definite book for your reading list – and also Sugata Mitra – who did the computer rooms in the schools we worked with in Hyderabad(!) – and also Professor James Tooley‘s Omega schools also make an appearance (I’d love to get out and see those schools one day!)

People always ask from where do I get my energy? and on the Genki English side of things it is always from working in schools and projects like this. The kids over there are *amazing* and are always so, so positive with huge smiles the whole day long.

So have a read and let me know what you learned in the comments!

Be genki,

Richard

P.S. Yes, we’re still waiting for my TEDx talk to get uploaded. They have assured me that it will be soon, but … with all the articles like this that are very anti-teacher (which I can understand ) I wonder if my pro-teacher stance in my talk has anything to do with it??