tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post114237731483082401..comments2024-03-28T00:28:06.035+13:00Comments on leading and learning: Time to throw a spanner in the works!Bruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-1143329420105748092006-03-26T11:30:00.000+12:002006-03-26T11:30:00.000+12:00Some secondary schools remind me of a line from Bo...Some secondary schools remind me of a line from Bob Dylan singing about prisons, 'Sometimes it is hard to work out who are the prisoners and who are the guards.'<BR/><BR/>They are about control and conformity rather than relationships and creativity.Bruce Hammondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-1142939675624982492006-03-21T23:14:00.000+12:002006-03-21T23:14:00.000+12:00Secondary schools are museums of archaic practices...Secondary schools are museums of archaic practices - and most teachers are too distracted, or blinded by habit, to notice. As one writer says they are OK if it were 1965!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-1142506986959659942006-03-17T00:03:00.000+13:002006-03-17T00:03:00.000+13:00I have to agree Rachel that primary teachers do sl...I have to agree Rachel that primary teachers do slagg off secondary teachers as well as vice versa.<BR/><BR/>The secondary system is a 'brick wall' but so too are many teachers.<BR/><BR/>As you say primary teachers are also cogs in the machine but it is a lot simpler machine so their task is easier.<BR/><BR/>The status quo rules in both areas - we need to work together; we work with the same students.Bruce Hammondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-1142505603674067072006-03-16T23:40:00.000+13:002006-03-16T23:40:00.000+13:00so is this an opportunity to go in & push for chan...so is this an opportunity to go in & push for change - i have considered this just lately as i now have a couple of toes in the secondary system again. I don't know if i would want to plunge back in there though - definately a huge challenge but would you just end up banging your head against a brick wall. So many barriers, the main one being 'the system' itself. Primary teachers can be pretty good at slagging off secondary teachers & i can say i have put my hand up to that. But they also are just cogs in the machine...Rachel Whalleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12898148459528535518noreply@blogger.com