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Lessons in Life
- What We Can All Learn from the World’s Best Teachers
- Narrated by: Andria Zafirakou
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Summary
One of the world's best teachers discovers from other award-winning teachers what they have come to understand about children.
What can the best teachers in the world tell us about our children? What advice can they give to help us raise happy, confident and caring kids?
Teachers spend a lot of time with their pupils - talking and listening to them, observing and guiding them. What can we learn from teachers about helping kids become compassionate, contented and successful grown-ups, as well as conscientious global citizens?
In Lessons in Life, Andria Zafirakou - the 2018 Global Teacher Prize winner - talks to 30 of the best teachers in the world willing to share their insight and wisdom, gained from years of working with children of all ages.
They include:
Ranjitsinh Disale (Global Teacher Prize winner 2020), a primary teacher who turned a cattle shed in the drought-prone village of Paritewadi in India into a school. His many skills include showing his pupils how to broaden their horizon, and to become advocates for change;
Peter Tabichi (Global Teacher Prize winner 2019), a maths and physics teacher in the Rift Valley Province in Kenya, regularly impacted by famine, who has found a way to make his students care about their studies and believe in a future they can be part of, despite the hardship all around them.
Esther Wojcicki (California Teacher of the Year 2002), a leading American teacher who challenged traditional school rules in her lessons to allow her students to take control, learn to believe in themselves and feel empowered.
Andrew Moffat (MBE for services to equality in education 2017), a primary teacher in Birmingham who created a teaching resource called 'Challenging Homophobia in Primary Schools' to help his pupils understand the importance of tolerance and open-mindedness.
The result is an inspiring, moving and fascinating listen that will help parents identify a child's potential and give them the tools to shine. To know what these incredible teachers know and see what they see is a privilege and a gift.
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- J. Drew
- 07-10-24
Ok book on what we can learn from teachers and tea
Life in lessons is a book that collects 30 teachers from around the world, and how to help students learn and be educated in more illuminating ways that we might be doing in many ways at the moment
- I love the fact that when teaching maths to try and come up with proper examples of everyday life, such as making a cake and how much you might need or been in charge of finances for the household and what your spending allowance will allow or even being able to feed 1 million people in some far off country and how you distribute money rather than 2+2 equals whatever.
- I also liked the idea of asking and getting parents to help their children's learning by asking them how their day went, what they learnt, was it difficult or easy, and if there is anything else they would like to share just to show an interest in what the children are doing and learning and how they're learning.
- I like the quote about play is like learning to help you understand the world you live in and I couldn't agree more and we should be encouraging children to play and play with one another outdoors if possible. “Play is like research to help you understand and learn about the world you live in”.
- Lessons in life I found to be a book about inspiring teachers who have done wonderful work with children, but personally I didn't find these stories very inspiring to listen to or read about, but there was some lovely little points in the book and no doubt these are wonderful teachers, but it didn't make me think of anything new.
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