Teachers – a rant Isn’t it interesting that as the statistics of exam success rise each year and as the chorus of governmental self-congratulation grows ever louder, that we now have demands for a 5-year MOT for teachers? I asked C who still teaches a day a week in school what she thought of this. [...]
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Labour to junk Tony Blair’s flagship school reform Headteachers to get more powers as era of centralised control ends Farewell then the Numeracy and Literacy Strategy, all the heartache and disillusion these strategies have caused. For me the Literacy Strategy was always worse than the Numeracy, but then I’ve always found maths easier to teach. [...] Well put article in the Guardian this morning explains ‘Ofsted Newspeak’ Just trying to keep the inspectors satisfied It’s now a mark of dishonour to be labelled a ‘satisfactory’ teacher, says Phil Beadle Guardian 24/03/2009 “No more. What should we read into the change to the bald four grades currently in use, where lessons are [...] An article today in the Guardian on John Macbeath. I’d not heard of him before but he sounds like an inspiring chap and if he was vilified by Chris Woodhead he must have some good ideas. Free school thinker by Peter Wilby in the Guardian. 13/01/2009 An invitation to look again at Ivan illich cropped [...] Ofsted’s new mission – to get rid of boring teachers. Polly Curtis in the Guardian. ‘Pedestrian teaching’ they say. Hmm this might have something to do with the curriculum? Isn’t there a move to belatedly change it; to make it more investigative, relevant, inspiring, up to date, cross curricular, creative and fun. Some people just [...] Following on from last week’s announcements about the Primary Curriculum. There was a a measured response in today’s, Guardian by a headteacher in Fareham. Wise man’s report is a gift. Report by Kevin Harcombe. ATM‘s response here. Extraordinary announcements today. The one flaw seems to be SATs – any discussion of these was outside the remit of the review. SATs – “the elephant in the room” and of course it is the tests themselves. Sir Jim Rose’s Interim report into the Primary Curriculum advocates ‘areas of learning’ rather than the traditional subject [...] Professor Stephen Heppell’s keynote for the K12 online conference. Stumbled across this on Drake’s Takes. Sats put primary pupils off science, says study. by Jessica Shepherd in ‘The Guardian’ National testing distorts science teaching in Primary Schools from the Wellcome Trust Download report here. |
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