World Class Learners
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Prepare your students for the globalized world!
In the new global economy, the jobs that exist now might not exist by the time today’s students enter the workplace. To succeed in this ever-changing world, students need to be able to think like entrepreneurs: resourceful, flexible, creative, and global.
This book unlocks the secrets to cultivating independent thinkers who are willing and able to use their learning differently to create jobs and contribute positively to the globalized society. World Class Learners presents concepts that teachers, administrators and even parents can implement immediately, including how to:
With the liberty to make meaningful decisions and explore nontraditional learning opportunities, today’s students will develop into tomorrow’s global entrepreneurs.
[...] doing research for my book World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students, I found a significant negative relationship between PISA performance and indicators of [...]
[...] his new book World Class Learners, Yong Zhao proclaims, “Everyone needs to be entrepreneurial in the 21st [...]
Why isn’t there an ebook version?
Sorry, I will ask the publisher.
[...] Zhao: Very good observation but I cannot help but pointing out that Tucker just published a book entitled Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the World’s Leading Systems. If it is such a bad system, why does Tucker consider it one of the world’s leading systems and want to build American education on it? If it is so bad, what is it in Shanghai, a city of China, he wants America to surpass? And by the way, it is not true that “few wanted to change the system, because the tests were one of the few incorruptible parts of a deeply corrupt system.” Many, perhaps, most people in China, want the system changed. The Ministry of Education and provincial governments have been making changes over the past few decades (for details read my books Catching Up or Leading the Way and World Class Learners) [...]
[...] Zhao is author of several books about education including his latest, “World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students” and has keynoted all over the world. I saw his keynote at ISTE12 and was totally [...]
[...] Chapter 8 of World Class Learners brought back lots of memories of things I did with students over the years that would fit nicely [...]
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08.16.12 Doublethink: The Creativity-Testing Conflict
08.13.12 Is Education a National Security Issue: A Critique of the Rice-Klein Report
06.17.12 Common Sense Vs. Common Core: How to Minimize the Damages of the Common Core
06.06.12 Test Scores vs. Entrepreneurship: PISA, TIMSS, and Confidence
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