International Education Week 13-19 November
What lessons can be learned from classrooms around the world and what can we borrow from others to help educate our own?
Teachers� TV is marking International Education Week with a range of programmes about teaching and learning overseas.
Inspirations: From Chesire to Soweto follows a group of teachers as they discover how Sowetan schools cope with classes of up to 60 pupils, many of them living in poverty and affected by HIV.
In Raising Cain: Boys in Focus we meet Dr Michael Thompson, child psychologist and one of the world's leading experts on raising boys, who takes us into the homes and schools of American boys of all ages and shows us how we might all learn from what he finds. This two part documentary provides surprising new research about boys' inner workings, dispelling a number of commonly held misconceptions, and offering insights into how society can help boys of all ages develop.
Winners of the Teachers� TV/British Council competition, Maidenhill School in Gloucestershire, sends a group of teachers to South West Kenya in the programme Wider Horizons: Four Go to Kenya. Frustrated with the British school system, the group are presented with the challenge of teaching Kenyan pupils who behave, they initially believe, as pupils should: remaining silent, listening and taking notes. However, all is not what it seems.
The Reggio Emilia Approach to pre-school education was started by schools in the Italian city of Reggio Emilia after World War II and has attracted worldwide attention. In Early Years: From Reggio Emilia to the West Midlands, UK practitioners travel there to study their carefully articulated and collaborative approach to the care and education of young children.
Inspirations: Sant� examines how a French healthy food scheme has helped to drastically reduce the level of childhood obesity and created an understanding of nutrition and health from the early years.
The series Finland follows two teachers from England who as they try to discover why the country has scored so well in the international OECD PISA assessments.
All programmes are available to download and watch for free at the Teachers' TV website.
Teachers� TV is available on Sky Guide 880, ntl/Telewest 240, Homechoice 845 and Freeview 88 (11am-1pm).
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