Scope: There are 41 short stories (1,000 to 3,000 words) written by award winning Fulbright teachers and former IU students around the globe who have enrolled in my R546 course (i.e., the famed Saturday class) on instructional strategies for critical and creative thinking, collaboration, motivation, and technology integration. Most are now back in their countries. R546 Syllabus: http://curtbonk.com/Instructional-Strats-R546-2021.ht m

Readers of this book will hear stories from outstanding teachers in 22 countries such as in Mexico, India, Morocco, mainland China and Taiwan, Bhutan, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Cyprus, Singapore, Finland, Botswana, New Zealand, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Rwanda, Costa Rica, Kazakhstan, Israel, and Uzbekistan, Korea, and the United States. These authors tell emotional, educationally powerful, and highly impactful stories of transformative changes in their classrooms, communities, and countries. Many of their stories will relate to the use of innovative technology during the pandemic as well as global technologies for international exchanges and collaboration among K-12 students in different countries.

Transformative Teaching Around the World:

Stories of Cultural Impact, Technology Integration, and Innovative Pedagogy

Curtis J. Bonk and Meina Zhu (Editors)

Dedication

To my advisor Gary A. Davis who taught me that “Creativity is Forever” and to Robert (Bob) and Donna Rae Clasen who helped me discover myriad ways that “Teachers Tackle Thinking” and to all the other thoughtful, kind, and creative professors with whom I took classes at the University of Wisconsin so long ago.

         &n bsp;         &n bsp;         &n bsp;      Curt Bonk, Indiana University

To my professors, friends, and family who encouraged me and supported me each day.

Meina Zhu, Wayne State University

Table of Contents: Book Chapters

Introduction

Foreword: The Power of Story

Gerardo Gonzalez

Preface: Before Making Impact

Curtis J. Bonk and Meina Zhu

1.      Time for Making Impact

Curtis J. Bonk and Meina Zhu

Section #1: Personal Transformations

2.      Professional Growth and Cross-Cultural Exchange: A Glimpse into a Fulbright Program’s Life-Long Impact on Global Educators

Jacob Butler

3.      Education found me; energy kept me: Thoughts on power, sharing, and service

Alba Rosario Marrón Canseco

4.      The World of Endless Possibilities- The Educator in Me

Keitumetse Thobani

5.      Questions that Matter – An Epistle to the Learner

Pratiksha Chopra

6.      Sun on the Snow: Ad Meliora - Toward Better Things

Remya Parameswar Iyer

7.      From ancient history to current practice: Experimenting with the pedagogical tools for teacher creativity and student empowerment

Nourit Ben David Erez

Section #2. Innovative Education

8.       “You can't use up creativity: The more you use, the more you have”: The story of Chris Gadbury

Shengnan (Penny) Ma

9.      Community health and environment: A learning project from India

Narayani Singh

10.  Metacognitive experiences on an urban concept farm: Local, project-based learning in science and sustainable agriculture

Simon McMillan

11.  Empowering teachers to become transformational leaders through reflective conversations: A school-based inquiry and a professional development project

Mohana Ratnam

12.  “Poipoia te kakano kia puawai” (Nuture the seed and it will blossom): Affective spaces in education-- prison, and beyond

Lynnette Brice

Section #3. Teaching with Technology

13.  Fostering student motivation and engagement through the Relevant, Appealing and Personal (RAP) pedagogical guideline: Tech stories from Singapore

Muhammad Nazir Amir

14.   Social media to tickle motivation to learn: From Saudi high school to USA graduate school

Khadijah Alghamdi

15.   Sparking inspiration through motivation and technology integration

Yassine Abdellaoui

16.   Interactive writing instruction in Zoom

Yan/Shyvia (Elaine) Zhang

17.  A Learning Journey by being Far and Near: A Lesson Designed in the R2D2 Framework

Begaim Adilkhanova

18.  It's all about the experience: Technology enhanced designs to generate value

Maria Solomou

Section #4: Pandemic Practices

19.  Chicken or Egg? Achieving the right balance between technology and pedagogy in online learning

Edwin Chew

20.  Learning in lockdowns: Creating safe, structured, and student-centered classes during the pandemic

Maija Heikkilä

21.   Actively engaging students in India during COVID-19: A former Fulbrighter finds hope

Rathnakaran Kozhukkunnon Othayoth

22.  Online Education in a Korean Elementary School During COVID-19: Focusing on My Experience using Blended Learning

Jeong-Ae Lee

23.  Moving from face-to-face to online environments in Mexico during the pandemic

Samuel Arriaga

Section #5: English Education and Collaboration

24.  English education enabled by technology: Story from an Online Teacher for an Under-Sourced Village School in China

Chaoran Wang

25.  Highlighting collaborative learning in language classroom: A story from Thailand

Apapan Sailabada

26.  Live classes of lives: English reading to ponder life, social phenomena, the fate of the world

Xiaoxiu (Anne) Wang

27.  Student collaboration starts with teacher collaboration

Sanna Leinonen

28.  Transformative Learning? Yes, Possibly in a Flipped Classroom

Hyun-Ju Kim

Section #6: Active Learning Strategies

29.  Why weren’t we taught like this?: Introducing Creative Strategies to Indian Teachers

Marina Basu

30.  Hooking students into science with engaging activities

Sutapa Mukund

31.  Pedagogical innovations from Finland: Using positive phenomena for powerful learning

Tarja Mykrä

32.  Active learning through using Actively Learn

Fiona Jeffries

33.  Activating the active learning classroom: Making the connection from local to global

Jhenyi Wu

Section #7: Global Education

34.  Distant Horizon, Close Friendship: Learning through Cross-Cultural Projects and Exchanges

Sandy Tsai

35.  Learning through student exchange projects

Taru Pohtola

36.  From Moment to Momentum: Technology Expanded Classrooms from Mexico to France and Back

Diana Gabriela Zamudio Troncoso

37.  Empowering teachers with technology and pedagogy: Distance teacher training in Uzbekistan

Umida Khikmatillaeva

38.  We can still be global citizens: Virtual exchange program to connect Yemeni EFL youth with their AFL American counterparts

Amani Gashan

Section #8: Overcoming Challenges

39.  Cancer, Covid-19, and the Cultural Impact of Technology in the Classroom

Rhuperdia Crowe-Clay

40.  Equitable learning in inequitable classrooms: Cases of teacher design thinking in rural schools in Bhutan and Papua New Guinea

Khendum Gyabak

41.  The Story Behind Jacky’s Cell Phone: Bring the Invisible Forward

Natalia Ramirez Casalvolone

42.  The story of keeping education wheels turning: Motivation and collaboration when Teaching in a post-war context

Simon Pierre Munyaneza

43.  Augmenting curriculum in a war-torn country: Augmented reality online teaching

Ebrahim Bamanger

Ending

44.  After Making Impact

Meina Zhu and Curtis J. Bonk

Afterword: The Power of Planning

Anastasia Morrone

Acknowledgments

References and Web Links