Book Club: Hattie, J. (2012). Visible learning for teachers: Maximizing impact on learning. Routledge. 6 signposts towards education excellence: Teachers are one of the most powerful learning influencers, Teachers need to be passionately engaged, Teachers need to provide effective individualistic feedback, Both student and teacher need to know and understand the learning intentions, The learners construction of…
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Outliers: The Story of Success (Book Club)
Book Club: Gladwell, M. (2008). Outliers: The Story of Success. Hachette UK. [sample here] It’s More Than Just Talent Outliers are “people who are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot” (Gladwell, 2008). Contributors To…
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Book: Wildavsky, B. (2012). The great brain race: How global universities are reshaping the world. Princeton University Press. [Chapter 1] The internationalision of student mobility and how “every year, nearly three million international students study outside of their home countries, a 40 percent increase since 1999”. Higher education and research is a global activity and is now…
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