LOGO WITH TEXT
  • Home
  • Privacy Policy
    • Disclaimer
  • About Us
    • Contact Us
  • Categories
  • Malaysia
Menu
  • Home
  • Privacy Policy
    • Disclaimer
  • About Us
    • Contact Us
  • Categories
  • Malaysia
Search
Home Amman

Teaching and Learning in Jordan [Latest 2022]

Planetic Net by Planetic Net
September 6, 2022
in Amman, Ant, API, Art, Bias, Book, Car, Children, Coaching, Community, Conversation, Corrido, Data, Download, Educator, Fact, Feedback, Food, IDEO, Incentive, Information, Insight, JavaScript, Job satisfaction, Leadership, Learning, Memory, Middle East, Motivation, Nation, Number, Observation, OECD, Policy, Port, Principle, Rain, Rat, Research, SAT, School, Social, Social media, Star, Stra, Strategy, Sun, Tea, Teacher, Teaching and Learning International Survey, They, Time, Tool, Training, Twitter, Video, Workforce
486
0
shutterstock

shutterstock

422
SHARES
1.1k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on WhatsappShare on TelegramShare on EmailShare on Wechat
Contents hide
1 @TeacherToolkit
1.1 What I was in Jordan for?
1.2 What did I learn from Jordanian teachers?
2 Related

@TeacherToolkit

In 2010, Ross Morrison McGill founded @TeacherToolkit from a simple Twitter account through which he rapidly became the ‘most followed teacher on social media in the UK’. In 2015, he was nominated as one of the ‘500 Most Influential People in Britain’ by The Sunday…
Read more about @TeacherToolkit

What is it like to live and teach in Amman, Jordan?

In August 2022, I was invited to work with the International Community School, in Amman, Jordan. The aim was to help the school kickstart its teaching and learning strategy …

What I was in Jordan for?

Before my arrival, I worked with the leadership team to develop their teaching and learning policy. This led to a physical event (back to school) with all teachers and support staff across the organisation – almost 250 staff.

Over the 5 days I was in Amman, I spent some time researching the challenges of teachers working in the country – similar to what I have learned from visiting teachers in 15 other countries – and shared this research with the staff.

On the first day in school (video), I met with all teaching staff, including assistant teachers and learning support assistants. It was a fascinating day, unpicking teacher workload in Jordan, introducing a new teaching and learning policy for consultation and aligning this with Barak Rosenshine’s research principles: 17 principles of effective instruction.

On day two (video), I worked with the school leadership and the teaching and learning team to unpick how learning happens, drawing insights from my new research/book, Guide to Memory. Ask any teacher to ‘doodle’ how learning happens and you open up a fascinating discussion.

In the latter part of the day, we look more carefully at lesson observation to reduce observational bias, introducing some feedback and coaching methods to improve one-to-one conversations.

In corridor conversations in and amongst the delicious food, I met one teacher who has been living and working there for 24 years. It’s also worth noting that in Amman, there is a small number of schools working in an international context. Still, the International Community School in Amman, is the only British school.

The staff made me feel very welcome and the school leadership team and how they hosted me was first class!

What did I learn from Jordanian teachers?

THE MOTIVATIONS, ATTRITION AND JOB SATISFACTION OF JORDAN’S TEACHERS Teaching and Learning in JordanAs part of my training reparations overseas, I draw on OECD and TALIS data to understand the context of where I am working. I was surprised to learn that Amman is over 1,000 meters above sea level and that the city is much larger than I had anticipated – over 4 million people.

In ‘The motivations, attrition and job satisfaction of Jordans teachers’ (January 2021) – a report draws upon the data from 5,722 teachers in a national teacher survey (2018) – including refugee contexts.

The report also uses information from TALIS (teaching and learning international survey), published by OECD. Here are some of the things I learned about (government) teachers working in Jordan.

  • There are 10 million people living in Jordan
  • 6 in 10 of the teaching workforce in Jordan are female
  • Jordanian teachers are an average of 8 years younger than OECD counterparts
  • Teachers have also taught for an average of 7 fewer years
  • Many teachers spend most of their time dealing with low level behaviour
  • 66% say there are no incentives to participate in CPD
  • Outside of leadership, appraisal feedback reaches only 51%
  • Working hours are reported to be 29 hours per week.

 

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

It was fantastic to work alongside Jordanian teachers, and to meet British teachers thriving in the Middle East – Jordan appears to be a super place for teachers to work and live.

Download the report.

Related

Previous Post

eLearning Startup Founders’ Lessons And What You Can Learn From Them [Latest 2022]

Next Post

The Metaverse: Just A Fad, Or The Future Of L&D? [Latest 2022]

Related Posts

AdobeStock scaled
Boston

Judge dismisses parents’ lawsuit over popular reading curricula [Latest 2022]

by Planetic Net
May 31, 2025
What are Learning Styles
Time

nytimes.com [Latest 2022]

by Planetic Net
May 30, 2025
AdobeStock scaled
Charter school

Dystopian Teacher Tales: The La Jollan Educational Missionary Society [Latest 2022]

by Planetic Net
May 30, 2025
Treasure Island San Francisco x
Chough

SF Planned to Improve Treasure Island’s Transit. Trump Took Back the Funds [Latest 2022]

by Planetic Net
May 30, 2025
AI SONGS cjlw facebookJumbo
Time

nytimes.com [Latest 2022]

by Planetic Net
May 29, 2025
AdobeStock scaled
Daily Dispatch

The Daily Digest: May 29, 2025 [Latest 2022]

by Planetic Net
May 29, 2025
blooms taxonomy verbs
Backward design

100+ Bloom’s Taxonomy Verbs For Critical Thinking [Latest 2022]

by Planetic Net
May 29, 2025
AdobeStock scaled
Child development

Instructional Coaching: Job-Embedded professional learning and compensation [Latest 2022]

by Planetic Net
May 29, 2025
Next Post
shutterstock

The Metaverse: Just A Fad, Or The Future Of L&D? [Latest 2022]

teacher backpacks

The 50 Best Teacher Backpacks to Replace Your Bulky Teacher Bag [Latest 2022]

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

AdobeStock scaled

Judge dismisses parents’ lawsuit over popular reading curricula [Latest 2022]

May 31, 2025
What are Learning Styles

nytimes.com [Latest 2022]

May 30, 2025
AdobeStock scaled

Dystopian Teacher Tales: The La Jollan Educational Missionary Society [Latest 2022]

May 30, 2025
  • Trending
  • Comments
  • Latest
gettyimages custom e a d a b e d d a a x

Is Your House at Risk of a Wildfire? This Online Tool Could Tell You

0
indicators of authentic mobile learningc

9 Indicators Of Authentic Mobile Learning

0
Books to Read to Comfort After a Tragedy

Books to Read With Kids After a Tragedy

0
GettyImages

Generating Leads With An Authoring Tool Listing In The eLearning Industry Directory

0
AdobeStock scaled

Judge dismisses parents’ lawsuit over popular reading curricula [Latest 2022]

May 31, 2025
What are Learning Styles

nytimes.com [Latest 2022]

May 30, 2025
AdobeStock scaled

Dystopian Teacher Tales: The La Jollan Educational Missionary Society [Latest 2022]

May 30, 2025
Treasure Island San Francisco x

SF Planned to Improve Treasure Island’s Transit. Trump Took Back the Funds [Latest 2022]

May 30, 2025
LOGO WITH TEXT
Planetic.net | Education is a free website that has been designed to help students and a one stop hub for students seeking for information on scholarship, education, school and university tips and updates on different issues relating to education.
About Us

Useful links

  • Technology
  • Tool
  • Computer
  • Science
  • Robotics
  • Malaysia
  • Leadership

Quick Link

  • Home
  • Privacy Policy
  • Disclaimer
  • About Us
  • Contact Us

Other

  • Main site
  • Technology
  • Education
  • Health & Fitness
  • Travel
  • App

© 2022 Planetic.net. All rights reserved.

Newsletter

WANT MORE?

SIGN UP TO RECEIVE THE LATEST UPDATES AND NEWS, PLUS SOME EXCLUSIVE TIPS!