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To hear more on Dr. James Tooley's work in education, listen to an interview conducted recently regarding his background and philosophies of formal education.

http://shinfujiyama.com/podcast/jamestooley

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Dr. Tooley believes in a model of education that practically eliminates the role of classroom teachers in schools through the use of technology and self-guided/regulated learning. While I do believe that education is changing in the 21st century, I do not believe that our students will find success without a teacher guiding them through instruction.

In order to reach higher cognitive processes individually, students must be coached and taught on how to think in a metacognitive way and asking young, early elementary students to think in that way puts a tremendous pressure on their working memory and cognitive load.  This pressure, and oftentimes lack of instruction on metacognitive thought, will lead students to underachieve, because they lack self-efficacy and/or motivation to complete the task without proper teaching.

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"An individual must find their niche, the place where a person is so incredibly excited about what she is doing that she does not want to do anything else for her entire life."
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“Whenever you’re doing any presentation and there are visitors to your school, always do your best and never go in underprepared. You never know who is going to be in the audience.”

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Researches and publishes work with a primary focus on the successful nature of low-cost, private schools

Serves as the patron of the Association of Formidable Educational Development (AFED) in Nigeria, which oversees 3,000 low-cost, private schools.

Acts as an advisor/mentor to individuals who hope to create organizations, including how to use an organization to disseminate research and best practices in education (or any other field)

Acting member of various other boards

Serves in the role of administrator/manager of the leaders of each smaller team within the school (administrative team, technology team, curriculum and design team)

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Authored multiple books, most notably The Beautiful Tree

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Founded February 2016, eliminates the use of workbooks completely and only use self-created applications and programs for Android devices

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Located in Africa and Asia, in traditionally low-income neighborhoods and utilize independently created workbooks, homework books, and tablet/smartphone applications to deliver instruction

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Has founded two networks of low-cost, private schools across Asia, Africa, and Latin America: Bridge International Academies and Cadmus Academy

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The extraordinary grassroots revolution of low-cost private schools | James Tooley | TEDxNewcastle

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Without numbers, a great many myths about education and educational provision would go unchallenged. Before James started his work (with colleagues) on low-cost private schools, the accepted wisdom was that only government education could provide for the poor in developing countries. In this TED talk James explores these myths and shares his findings.

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Professor of Education Policy at Newcastle University, U.K.

Administrator at Cadmus Academy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras