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Jaya Ramchandani (جيا رامچَندانِ)
Jaya Ramchandani (جيا رامچَندانِ)

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Best Practices for Learning in the 21st Century

and how you can adopt them — I was recently invited to speak at the Robotic Telescopes, Student Research, and Education conference at the University of Melbourne. The conference brought together a community of astronomy and physics teachers (from primary, middle, secondary, undergrad), astronomy researchers, education researchers, outreach practitioners, and university professors. It also included an amazing…

Education

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Best Practices in High School Education in the 21st Century
Best Practices in High School Education in the 21st Century
Education

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How to Collaborate?

A beginner’s guide to making collaborations work — Collaboration is more than just a 21st-century trend — it stems from a need to solve the wicked problems of our time. A need to shift our focus from the individual success story to positive movement as a society, from independence to interdependence. Collaboration is both a process and a…

Collaboration

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How to Collaborate?
How to Collaborate?
Collaboration

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What is Self-Directed Learning?

A Toolkit to Getting Started with Learning How to Learn — Changing our beliefs around learning is the first step to learning anything and everything. Through my last two years of teaching, I have found solace in the power of self-directed learning to change lives, and the idea that it is for anyone, anytime, anywhere — child, teenager, adult, post-adult. Self-directed…

Learning

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What is Self-Directed Learning?
What is Self-Directed Learning?
Learning

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What is Transformative Learning?

How to change your perspective, intentionally — Somewhere in 2014, my mindset changed from either/or to both/and. At that time, I thought it was a blend of aha! moments when studying astrophysics and exploring Buddhism shortly after that led me to shift my mindset. Like when I truly understood wave-particle duality, it was liberating and had far-reaching…

Transformative Learning

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What is Transformative Learning?
What is Transformative Learning?
Transformative Learning

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What is Project-Based Learning?

An educator’s guide to creating space for project-based learning in your courses — I am a big fan of projects, as it is a strong way to blend academic knowledge with learning from experience to purposefully engage with learners in direct experience and focused reflection. Project-based Learning or PBL, as advocated by The Buck Institute for Education, has come to be associated with…

Learning

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What is Project-Based Learning?
What is Project-Based Learning?
Learning

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Sep 19

Can queering the way we convene and collaborate help us move beyond the status quo?

I was invited to speak at a queering climate mixer by Karan Kumar, a sustainability solutions shaper, on the question Can queering the way we convene and collaborate help us move beyond the status quo? Here are my notes. To queer the way we convene and collaborate means to challenge…

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Can queering the way we convene and collaborate help us move beyond the status quo?
Can queering the way we convene and collaborate help us move beyond the status quo?

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Aug 24

Which is a better predictor of success in IBDP Science: K-10 NGSS or K-10 IGCSE?

If you are pursuing a masters or PhD in International Education, can you find out for me? — So here’s the situation. You are an international private school in America implementing the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for high school science for years 9 and 10. Your middle school has just transitioned to NGSS. Your school only offers the IBDP program for years 11 and 12. A bunch…

Science Education

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Which is a better predictor of success in IBDP Science: K-10 NGSS or K-10 IGCSE?
Which is a better predictor of success in IBDP Science: K-10 NGSS or K-10 IGCSE?
Science Education

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Jul 3

Let’s talk about teacher burnout

As a teacher, would you trade in some of your holidays for a more spread out workload and higher pay? — Teachers are often looked upon with holiday envy. A typical high-school teacher in the United States is contracted for around 180-200 days per year (with one-week breaks for spring, fall, and winter, and a two-month long summer break). …

Education Reform

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Let’s talk about teacher burnout
Let’s talk about teacher burnout
Education Reform

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Jun 17

How to use ChatGPT in your role as an educator?

From the Professional Development Workshop Series — In this interactive workshop series, harness the power of ChatGPT in your role as an educator. In four engaging sessions, learn to create lesson plans, expedite grading, provide personalised feedback, and design responsible usage guidelines for students. …

Professional Development

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How to use ChatGPT in your role as an educator?
How to use ChatGPT in your role as an educator?
Professional Development

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Jun 6

Is the IBDP program aligned to its mission?

A temperature check on the mission-reality alignment from the perspective of a teacher in the system — In a world increasingly engaged in addressing social equity and justice and mitigating climate change, the mission elements of the International Baccalaureate (IB) program hold significant relevance. …

Future Of Education

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Future Of Education

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Jaya Ramchandani (جيا رامچَندانِ)

Jaya Ramchandani (جيا رامچَندانِ)

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