Michael Soskil
2016 Global Teacher Prize Finalist Discusses Intrinsic Motivation through Service Focused Learning.
My guest today is Michael Soskil. Michael was one of the two Americans selected as Finalists in the 2016 Global Teacher Prize and prior to that was honored with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science. He has connected his classroom to the world and facilitated conversations between his students and more than 70 countries. Some of the results of these introductions are pretty incredible. His students notice problems others are having and Michael allows them the opportunity to get creative and solve them. Some of their ideas and efforts have actually saved lives! In this interview we discuss how you can place your classroom front and center on the global stage, how connecting students emotions to the content through service creates a growth mindset and passion for learning. So please enjoy this conversation with Michael Soskil.
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Contact: mrsoskil@gmail.com
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Links:
A Teacher’s Life for Me – Michael’s Blog
Global Teacher Prize Video – Michael’s Global Teacher Prize Video Montage
Skype for Educators
Distance Teaching – On this site you will find videos created by students. Since students learn more of what they teach than what they consume, students from around the world will be sharing their learning with each other.
Books:
Flip the System: Changing Education from the Ground Up: by Jelmer Evers & René Kneyber – In this book, teachers from around the world and other educational experts make the case to move away from this uneducational economic approach, to instead embrace a more humane, more democratic approach to education.
The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything: by Ken Robinson Ph.D. – A New York Times-bestselling breakthrough book about talent, passion, and achievement from the one of the world’s leading thinkers on creativity and self-fulfillment.