Be a teacher! Please, please, please be a teacher. Teachers are the most admirable and important people in the world. You don’t have to do it forever, but if you’re in doubt about what to do, be an amazing teacher.
Tim Minchin, composer
Courses for You
Urbanism – On Campus / In City
- City at Eye Level’s Training series (Rotterdam)
- Copenhagenize’s Master Class (Copenhagen)
- Gehl Institute’s Public Life Masterclasses (Copenhagen & San Francisco Bay Area)
- Jarrett Walker + Associates Transit Network Design Course
- LSE Cities’s London and Global Cities: Governance, Planning and Design course (London)
- NACTO’s Design Guide Trainings and Sister Cities Roadshows
- Participate in Design PiD School (Singapore)
- Singapore Urban Redevelopment Authority’s Integrated Land Use Planning Course (Singapore)
- University of Amsterdam Urban Cycling Institute‘s three week Summer School program Planning the Cycling City (Amsterdam, Rotterdam & Utrecht)
Urbanism – Online
- Coursera‘s University of Pennsylvania School of Design Designing Cities course
- SGD Academy‘s Sustainable Cities and other courses (SGD Academy is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network)
Education – On Campus / In City
- Buck Institute for Education’s Onsite Services and Events (Multiple locations, USA)
- Leadership + Design’s programs for Schools and School Leaders (Multiple locations, USA)
- Stamford d.school’s K12 Lab Professional Development Opportunities (Stanford)
- The Masters School’s CITYTerm Teaching for Experience Workshop (New York)
Education – Online
- Asia Society International Studies Schools Network‘s Teaching for Global Competence series
- IDEO‘s online school – IDEO U – for courses on design thinking, storytelling and innovation
Education – Taking the Next Step
- Lucy Kellaway‘s Now Teach program for career changers (UK)
- Teach First (UK), Teach for America, Teach for Australia and other Teach for All programs for recent university graduates
Courses for Your Students
- The Masters School’s CITYTerm (New York)
Public Understanding of …
- The Oxford Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science Marcus du Sautoy
- Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk at The Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, University of Cambridge, David Spiegelhalter
- Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University
Ideas for Programs
Urban Geography
Case Studies
- Discover Barangaroo – An online educational resource for geography students, using Sydney’s new inner-city suburb Barangaroo as a case study. (This resource was produced by developer LendLease working closely with Dr Grant Kleeman from Macquarie University’s School of Education.)
Investigation Tools
- Gehl Institute’s Tools for Measuring Public Life
- National Streets Service Soul Searching Training Kit (tools to help you engage with streets and encourage participatory design) and Streets! App
Critical Thinking Skills
- David Spiegelhalter’s 2018 BBC World Service Documentary Podcast ‘You Can Handle the Truth‘ about a joint Ugandan (Makerere University) and Norwegian (Centre for Informed Health Studies) program teaching critical thinking skills to 9 and 10 year olds. (See ‘Public Understanding of …’ above, David Spiegelhalter is the Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge.)
Problem Solving
Escape Rooms (Collaborative Problem Solving)
- Stamford d.school’s Deeper Learning Puzzle Bus
- TED & Brightline Initiative: Escape The Room at TED2018
More Problem Solving
- Buck Institute for Education’s ‘Project Based Learning’ Resources and Shop
- Math (or ‘Maths’, depending on where you are from) teacher Dan Meyer‘s TED Talk ‘Math class needs a makeover‘ on formulating better questions and being reflective learners.
- Stamford d.school’s A Virtual Crash Course in Design Thinking
Maker Movement
- Make magazine and Maker Faires
Collaboration
- Leadership + Design’s Collaboration Cards
Communication
Storytelling
- Khan Academy’s Pixar in a Box
Storytelling with Data
- Artist R. Luke DuBois‘s TED Talk ‘Insightful human portraits made from data‘
- Data analyst Ben Wellington‘s TED Talk ‘Making data mean more through storytelling‘
- Statistician Hans Rosling’s TED Talks and Gapminder Foundation
21st Century Learning
Four Cs of 21st Century Learning
Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity
- The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s Deeper Learning strategy
- The Partnership for 21st Century Learning and their Global Schools Network
- Partnership for 21st Century Skills’s founder Ken Kay’s EdLeader21 professional learning community
- Edward de Bono‘s Six Thinking Hats
- Sugata Mitra’s TED Talk ‘Kids can teach themselves‘ about his Hole in the Wall project
Grit and Character
- Angela Duckworth‘s TED Talk ‘Grit: The power of passion and perserverance‘
- International Baccalaureate‘s Learner Profile
A Bit of Inspiration – Letters, Speeches & Occasional Addresses
- Sir Ken Robinson‘s TED Talk ‘Do schools kill creativity?‘
- Tim Minchin‘s Occasional Address to The University of Western Australia in 2013
- And in a similar vein, Tommy Koh‘s ‘Letter to my grandchildren in 2065‘ from 2015
- John Kennedy’s ‘Peace Speech‘, the Commencement Address at American University , Washington DC, 1963, and for more speeches by President Kennedy visit his library here.
- Barbara Bush‘s Commencement Speech to Wellesley College in 1990
- Prince Ea‘s Make SMART Cool movement and his ‘I Just Sued the School System !!!‘ performance
Young Urbanists 