International Schools Blog

Social learning is a theory that suggests students learn by watching and repeating the behaviours of others. Here's how to integrate it in the classroom.

The holiday break is nearly here and your thoughts may be turning to how you can ensure your learners continue their reading practice at home and continue to make progress in their learning. 

Alongside innovation in onscreen assessment and digital accessibility, we ensure we assess students in the right way, through our existing qualification design. At Pearson, this means offering a choice over when learners are assessed and examining how modular assessment can work alongside linear assessment as an examination option.

Here are five ways ChatGPT can facilitate engaging, effective classroom activities.

It’s been a tricky year for IB Diploma Programme biology, chemistry and physics teachers. We’re out of practice when adopting new Subject Guides; the latest editions were released nine (rather than seven) years after the previous. We have had to teach two different courses to our current two cohorts. And I sense from my conversations with teachers that more and more schools combine Higher and Standard Level classes, making planning all the more difficult.

Technology is a firm fixture in education these days. But how much screentime for kids is too much? We take a look at the debate around screentime in schools.

What should education reform for a new generation look like? Meredith Reeve, Head of Next Generation Assessment at Pearson, shares our best current thinking and provides an overview of the progress we are making at Pearson to innovate learning and assessment to give choice to students.

In the last twelve months, there has been a lot of debate around AI and assessment. Lots of educators have expressed fears that student use of generative AI such as ChatGPT would make cheating widespread.

Children thrive when they feel like part of a close-knit community. In a supportive environment, they’re better able to focus on studying and working well alongside their peers. However, sometimes it can be challenging to break down the barriers between different classes, ages, and friendship circles. Developing a community-building policy can help to bring students together.

Global citizenship is the belief that people belong to a community beyond that of their home country. In today’s world, where people study, work, and move around on a regular basis, global citizenship is important to celebrate diversity, learn from other cultures, and shape a fairer world now and in the future.