Just have to look around to see educational values….
June 12, 2014
As we go to Shanghai schools, we only have to look around us to see how different the education here is from at home. The everyday things tell us about different priorities- culturally and educationally. We can’t help noticing the cultural paradox of a more collective society in which education is fiercely, individually competitive. We …
Shanghai schools- the little things you notice
June 10, 2014
Three new things from Shanghai schools-and they aren’t what you think! Eye exercises. Twice a day, in Shanghai schools, all the children do eye exercises. Suddenly, music comes out of a loudspeaker in the wall, a voice starts to count to the music and all the children hunch over and start massaging their eyes, cheeks …
Becoming a teacher and developing as a teacher in Shanghai
June 6, 2014
As we go round early years, primary and secondary schools, we are meeting teachers old and young and it is clear that teaching is a respected and valued profession here in Shanghai. Confucius seems to have started it, but everyone maintains that respect for teachers. It is a profession youngsters want to join and the …
Pupil directed learning
PISA results and the critiques of them we read before coming here, lead us to believe that the pupils learning experiences would be totally teacher directed. However our experience of Penglai Number Two Demonstration School have completely changed our impressions. At 7:30 we caught the bus to the 60 year old school, to observe some …
From breakfast(s) to lunch(es)
June 3, 2014
Today was the longest day imaginable, with a lot of hours between breakfast in England and lunch in Shanghai (and quite a few meals). Our Shanghai colleagues were already on the coach from Raleigh park flats when it got to us at the Jubilee Campus just before 8am. Although the bus driver hit a few …
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