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Dear Bryan, Congrats! You are worth of receiving of most reputation and become Forum AMBASSADOR!

Hello, everyone

Ana, you are right, HOW is a good question.

The design of the Courses for professional development for teachers should undergo substantial changes putting forward teacher agency. Knowledge based economy needs the instructors who can teach students HOW to learn, who are able to investigate, inquire constantly. Today knowledge is accessible at hand's reach. There is Chinese proverb "if your student asks a glass of water, teachers should have a pail water to deliver at their disposal". It is feasible in case of:

1. Positive mindset of teachers, understanding and awareness of crucial role of a XXI century teacher, new mission of a teacher.

2. Openness and adaptiveness to changes, get rid of teaching as she/he was taught to teach.

3. Readiness to life-long learning, research and regular publishing.

Dear Colleague, The core of green school's curriculum is a project/inquiry-based learning. Through myriads of experiential learning approaches the students are encouraged to explore their interests and passions while developing their understanding of environmental issues. That's why it focuses on incorporating elements student agency and sustainable development.
World's new trend of schools.

Dear Ana, let me thank you again for this opportunity of global collaboration. International forum is sure to reach its goals set forward. Why?

I'm happy to receive feedback from my colleagues and read wonderful reflections worth of research paper in education.

Education as a social phenomenon, is inevitably goes through transformation, its paradigm is changing completely. I can imagine together or not, we all are facing glocal (global and local) challenges we need to gradually overcome.

In the long term, all countries take action to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to quality education for all. It is the foundation of all and there is an urgent call worldwide.

Samar Mohamed, nice to meet you.
My appreciation of your devotion and involvement.

Perfect Idea! As Alvin Toffler highlighted "The illiterate of the 21st century are not those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn"

We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't yet exist, using technologies that haven't been invented, in order to solve problems we don't even know are problems yet, aren't we?

Today young learners need to develop a wide selection of sharp "thinking and doing tools" for quickly analyzing complex problems, for conceiving and creating innovative solutions, and for effectively communicating and collaborating with other team members, all working together toward a clear goal. Correspondingly, teachers need to develop their competencies and support them in tackling complex questions, problems, or challenges through PBL.
The good news is that, as seen for instance, from the forum, contemporary educators are becoming increasingly aware of this need for a dynamic and challenging learning approach.

Only as you mention above, through active exploration of real-world questions, problems, issues, and perspectives students are able to acquire deeper knowledge and skills.

@MYLOG47799627c6
This is bitter truth.

This time TALIS-2024 report will be concise and comprehensible for practicing teachers to increase the readership.
It will address the issues of global teacher shortage, job dissatisfaction, problems of school leadership and school environment.

Mariam, indeed "Teaching for global competence does not require a new curriculum. It requires combining instructional strategies for active learning with global issues and weaving them into the existing curriculum"

I'd love to convey this message to those teachers who somehow struggle to teach this subject and to those, who consider that their main subject profile has nothing common with Global competency.

I want to acknowledge this Forum is abundant in valuable insights and notional quotes.

There is a very interesting 4-step Rubrics to assess creative thinking. It is easy to use. Unless newly acquired knowledge not used in a new context it can not be evaluated as high order of thinking, that is creativeness.

@Bousl, hello. Right, assessment should be focused not on subject knowledge, but on the skills that students use and demonstrate. As an outcome they develop, practice and apply the skills they need to research, plan and take action. They learn to understand different perspectives on complex global issues, and learn to see the world differently.

@BRYANb8875625e5

To help future generation to think independently about, and debate, important issues in the world, teachers play an important role in promoting and integrating intercultural understating into their practices and classroom lessons.

In other words, today students need to improve their thinking, reasoning, research, planning, teamwork, and presentation skills.
Existing international practice abounds in effective tools, such as skills development activities that introduce, develop and extend skills through team projects, individual reports and serious written examinations.

@Ekaterina-P These days, everybody seems to be talking about “21st century skills” and how our students need new ways of learning if they hope to succeed in life. What today’s students need to succeed in their future work, family, and civic lives is dramatically different from what previous generations learned in school. But what are 21st century skills and how can educators bring them to students? The easiest answer is: by turning to the processes and principles that the field of project management has been utilizing for decades—skills such as critical and creative thinking, problem solving, effective communication, collaboration, self-motivation, persistence, and a lifelong passion for learning. These essential 21st century skills and mindsets, already part of daily life for project management professionals, are exactly what modern students need to learn in order to succeed.

@Bousl, credit must be given to you for using spontaneity and imaginative thinking really no routine thinking, no ready made goods and services, in other words "no fish to eat, but to fish to eat" and notably all of a sudden being able to apply what you already know IMAGINATIVELY (as creative as possible) in a completely new context. Improvise, capture the flow.
Hope forum colleagues are familiar with the concept of Hungarian psychologist who describes flow those moments when one is completely absorbed in a challenging but doable task.

According to him, guru of creative thinking “The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times . . . The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile”

This is the motto of modern teachers especially in the time the creativity of teenagers decrease and too much gadget (ready product, applications, delivery) dependence.

@Antonia, absolutely! Learning losses during COVID and its drastic consequences prove that educational imbalance/disequilibrium is a global challenge that emphasize the role and immediate implementation SDG4.

Thank so much for your feedback!

Dear Bryan,

I cannot stop admiring your professionalism and complete dedication to loving and true caring of your students. I admire your fantastic posts, true devotion to your job, careful attitude to every of us here in this forum, to every educational topic.

Thank you for sharing with in-depth thoughts regarding all three points raised by me. In the era of life-long learning Critical thinking and productivity as central components 0f education are continuums of progress throughout the life cycle. General sad trend is that the basics of STEM knowledge and creativity cultivated at early age weaken gradually by the time they grow.
Is it due to age peculiarities or pedagogics of secondary level?

Samar, the ideas you bring forward are very compelling!

Hello, Samar

Assessment is my favourite topic. Only good principles of validity, fairness and authenticity that is, principles of good practice in assessment can guarantee quality management and validation.

Besides, teachers should bear in mind that constructive feedback is essential and integral part of formative (assessment for learning) assessment.

Evolving digital world makes libraries, metropolitans, museums smart and digital.
f.e. My best companion is my Kindle, it's like Mary's little lamb:)) everywhere I went, it is sure to go, it followed to Trondheim last year, is about to go to Budapest this year
Why does Kindle love me so?
Why, I love my Kindle, you know!

Adding a joke to our lovely forum

This burning issue of ending violence against children having been discussed worldwide, particularly the states on their commitments at national, global level are in search of effective preventive measures with further implementation, funding and scaling sustained actions to fully minimize violence @home, @school, online and in local/global communities.

@ANIBA, welcome to the Forum.
What a gorgeous wall of beautiful drawings!

Very creative process that also teaches to be thrifty and caring. It was said earlier in this forum that small incremental steps make large steps. Our kids should have a clear understanding how industry works, how the stationaries, tissues, wrapping papers they use every day, come into existence and are being sold. Earlier they realize it, better is the awareness, quicker the diffusion, deeper the peer-understanding and holistic development.

Love it! Good luck!

At first, I was sad about what I read and was thinking of appropriate response (I mean pondering on forum vision and speculationg upon inevitably 'nasty' aspects of human interrelation), later I see this rock of support and subtle understanding of the things by like-minded people. We are here to learn a lesson and teach a lesson. And what matters is the understanding, perception and acceptance and revival. Unpleasant experience is a part of life, mistakes are gifts.

Dear, Emina cheer up and seize the day!