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Wellcome Trust International Master’s Fellowships 2018/19 for low and middle income countries (£120,000 Funding)

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Deadline: August 31, 2018 The Wellcome Trust International Master’s Fellowships is now open for early career researchers. This scheme offers nationals of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) the opportunity to receive training at Master’s degree level. Fellows receive an award of £120,000 including salary, studentship stipend, fees and research expenses. Duration: 30 months (12 months taught Master’s course […]

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HOW DO WE PREPARE STUDENTS FOR THE JOB MARKET IN AFRICA?

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Across Africa, students arrive on campuses full of hope that a university degree will improve their lives. The reality is far less certain. In 2014, a British Council study estimated Nigeria’s graduate unemployment at 23.1%. In Kenya, it takes an average of five years for a graduate to find a job. Yet business leaders frequently say there are

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Girls prefer being taught by female teachers

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Over the past few decades most advanced countries have witnessed two striking reversals of the gender gap. First, teaching has become a profession dominated by women. This is particularly true at primary school level, where 84.5% of teachers across all countries classified as “developed” by UNESCO are women. The second reversal has been among pupils. Girls now outperform boys 

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HOW TO MAKE YOUR SOCIAL STUDIES CLASSROOM MORE EXCITING USING GAMES

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Gamifying or gamification is just a supposedly new twist on something that teachers have been using since the stone ages. It is not only the use of games to supplement teaching, but rather the use of what makes games engaging and motivating in the classroom. Think of gamifying a lesson or a unit as a

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AUGMENTED REALITY IS REINVENTING CLASSROOM LEARNING

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The poster child for cutting-edge technology in the classroom over the years has included computers (back in your mom’s schooldays), iPads (a surprisingly long time ago), 3D printing, Maker Space, and G Suite. By now, those have all been mainstreamed, with savvy parents asking, “What else do you offer?” Now, the most popular ending to the sentence

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DEVELOPING YOUR BRAIN’S POTENTIAL BY TAKING CHARGE THROUGH CONSTRUCTIVE THINKING AND LEARNING

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Teaching students about neuroplasticity and the brain’s potential can have a positive effect on their self-perceptions and expectations for success in school. Teaching students basic knowledge about the brain’s potential can have a positive impact on their motivation, grit, and achievement. In particular, explicitly teaching them that learning changes the structure and function of their brains can be

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Reading for Comprehension Isn’t Always Enough

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Two strategies for teaching students to be critical of messages they encounter in texts and other media and to voice their own views. Students are often given assigned readings along with written assignments that ask them to retell or summarize what they read, and perhaps to explain why the information is important. This may also

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Developing Your Classroom Presence

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Simple strategies for developing the strong relationships with students that encourage them to take risks and increase their learning. The quality of presence—a state of alert awareness, receptivity, and connectedness to the working of both the individuals and the group in the context of the learning environment—is unfortunately not often taught explicitly in teacher education programs. Teachers

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