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Final 3 weeks to nominate teachers for the $1M Global Teacher Prize 2021

April 8, 2021 by The Varkey Foundation

Dear friends,

We hope you are doing well.

There is now less than one month to go until appli­ca­tions and nom­i­na­tions close for the Glob­al Teacher Prize, and we want­ed to ask you to help us spread the word.

We are now start­ing the sev­enth cycle of this prize, which con­tin­ues to high­light the impor­tant work of extra­or­di­nary teach­ers around the world. Now more than ever, it is impor­tant they are recog­nised for their con­tri­bu­tion and have a seat at the table when deci­sions are made on edu­ca­tion. [Read more…] about Final 3 weeks to nom­i­nate teach­ers for the $1M Glob­al Teacher Prize 2021

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: Global Teacher Prize, Lifelong-learning, teacher, teachers, Varkey Foundation

Indian teacher Ranjitsinh Disale wins annual $1M Global Teacher Prize; shares half with 9 finalists

December 3, 2020 by SharpBrains

Top teacher wins $1m and gives half away (BBC News):

Mr Disale, who teach­es in the Zil­la Parishad Pri­ma­ry School, in the drought-prone vil­lage of Parite­wa­di, in the west­ern Indi­an state of Maha­rash­tra, was named the world’s most excep­tion­al teacher, ahead of 12,000 oth­er nom­i­na­tions … He also pro­vides online sci­ence lessons for pupils in 83 coun­tries and runs an inter­na­tion­al project build­ing con­nec­tions between young peo­ple in con­flict zones.

[Read more…] about Indi­an teacher Ran­jitsinh Disale wins annu­al $1M Glob­al Teacher Prize; shares half with 9 finalists

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: Global Teacher Prize, Learning, Ranjitsinh Disale, teacher

Final 10 days to submit nominations for the Global Teacher Prize 2018

September 27, 2017 by SharpBrains

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Please join us in cel­e­brat­ing teach­ers and the amaz­ing things they do to devel­op and refine our brains. Rec­og­nize the teach­ers who have changed your life, and the lives of oth­ers around you, by nom­i­nat­ing them for a Glob­al Teacher Prize HERE before Octo­ber 8th, 2017.

Descrip­tion: The Glob­al Teacher Prize is a US $1 mil­lion award pre­sent­ed annu­al­ly to an excep­tion­al teacher who has made an out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tion to their pro­fes­sion.  [Read more…] about Final 10 days to sub­mit nom­i­na­tions for the Glob­al Teacher Prize 2018

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: Education & Lifelong Learning, Global Teacher Prize, Lifelong-learning, teacher, teachers, Varkey Foundation

Just in: Call for nominations and applications @ Global Teacher Prize 2018

June 30, 2017 by Alvaro Fernandez

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Please join me and the Glob­al Teacher Prize in cel­e­brat­ing teach­ers and the amaz­ing things they do. Rec­og­nize the teach­ers who have changed your life, and/ or the lives of oth­ers around you, by nom­i­nat­ing them for a Glob­al Teacher Prize HERE before Octo­ber 8th, 2017.

Descrip­tion: The Glob­al Teacher Prize is a US $1 mil­lion award pre­sent­ed annu­al­ly to an excep­tion­al teacher who has made an out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tion to their pro­fes­sion.  [Read more…] about Just in: Call for nom­i­na­tions and appli­ca­tions @ Glob­al Teacher Prize 2018

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: Education & Lifelong Learning, Global Teacher Prize, teacher, teachers, Varkey Foundation

Memory Problems? Perhaps you are Multi-tasking

October 29, 2008 by Dr. Bill Klemm

Today’s kids are into mul­ti-task­ing. This is the gen­er­a­tion hooked on iPods, IM’ing, video games — not to men­tion TV! Many peo­ple in my gen­er­a­tion think it is won­der­ful that kids can do all these things simul­ta­ne­ous­ly and are impressed with their competence.

Well, as a teacher of such kids when they reach col­lege, I am not impressed. Col­lege stu­dents these days have short atten­tion spans and have trou­ble con­cen­trat­ing. They got this way in sec­ondary school. I see this in the mid­dle-school out­reach pro­gram I help run. At this age kids are real­ly wrapped up in mul­ti-task­ing at the expense of focus.

Accord­ing to a Kaiser Fam­i­ly Foun­da­tion study last year, school kids in all grades beyond the sec­ond grade com­mit­ted, on aver­age, more than six hours per day to TV or videos, music, video games, and com­put­ers. Almost one-third report­ed that “most of the time” they did their home­work while chat­ting on the phone, surf­ing the Web, send­ing instant mes­sages, watch­ing TV, or lis­ten­ing to music.

Kids think that this enter­tain­ment while study­ing helps their learn­ing. It prob­a­bly does make learn­ing less tedious, but it clear­ly makes learn­ing less effi­cient and less effec­tive. Mul­ti-task­ing vio­lates every­thing we know about how mem­o­ry works. Now we have objec­tive sci­en­tif­ic evi­dence that [Read more…] about Mem­o­ry Prob­lems? Per­haps you are Multi-tasking

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: brain, college, entertainment, fMRI, homework, improve-concentration, improve-memory, instant-messaging, iPods, Kaiser-Family-Foundation, Learning, lower-grades, memory, memory-consolidation, MRI, multi-tasking, MySpace, passive-distraction, Poor-memory, school-performance, short-attention-span, teacher, thinking, TV, Vanderbilt, video-games

The brain virtues of physical exercise

March 10, 2008 by Dr. Adrian Preda

Dr. Adri­an Pre­da, our newest Expert Con­trib­u­tor, writes today the first in a series of thought-pro­vok­ing arti­cles,physical exercise for the brain chal­leng­ing us to think about phys­i­cal exer­cise as the best and most unap­pre­ci­at­ed form of “brain exer­cise”. A superb article.

And one thing is clear, he points out: “the brain real­ly likes it when it’s asked to be “active”. Pas­sive audi­ences, which are spoon fed infor­ma­tion, score less well when test­ed on reten­tion and under­stand­ing of the pre­sent­ed mate­r­i­al than audi­ences that were kept engaged through the process.”

So, will you write a com­ment below and con­tribute to an engag­ing con­ver­sa­tion? Thoughts? reac­tions? questions?
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Don’t ignore plain old com­mon sense.

Brain Lessons Part 1

– By Adri­an Pre­da, M.D.

Let me start with a list of com­mon bias­es: expen­sive is bet­ter than cheap, free is of dubi­ous val­ue (why would then be free?), rare is like­ly to be valu­able, and while new is bet­ter than old, ancient is always best. Which explains a com­mon sce­nario that is reen­act­ed about twice a week in my office. It starts like this: a patient shows me a fan­cy look­ing bot­tle of the brain sup­ple­ment of the week: ancient roots with obscure names mixed togeth­er in anoth­er nov­el com­bi­na­tion which you can exclu­sive­ly find in that one and only store (rar­i­ty oblige!). And not to for­get: it ain’t cheap either! Of course, there it is, the per­fect the recipe for suc­cess: ancient yet new, rare and expen­sive. It got to be good! But is it, really?

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: Adrian-Preda, Alzheimer’s-dementia, anxiety, blood-pressure, brain-awareness-week, brain-exercise, brain-illness, Brain-Lessons, brain-performance-metabolic-problems, brain-structure, brain-supplement, cognitive-decline, common-sense, depression, healthy-brain, higher-education, increase-longevity, memory-loss, Physical-Exercise, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, researcher, teacher, UC-Irvine-School-of-Medicine

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