tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post116259135901529348..comments2024-03-28T00:28:06.035+13:00Comments on leading and learning: Secondary School wins Enterprise AwardsBruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-1162869564004685332006-11-07T16:19:00.000+13:002006-11-07T16:19:00.000+13:00The provision of realist tasks are the key to re-e...The provision of realist tasks are the key to re-energising our secondary schools - particularly for those that find it all a bit of a bore. You are right, such 'learning rich' activities ought to be at the centre of school learning.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-1162723174273351612006-11-05T23:39:00.000+13:002006-11-05T23:39:00.000+13:00If people were brave enough the most exciting plac...If people were brave enough the most exciting place to be, for creative techers, would be developing 'personalised' programmes in the early secondary school years.Bruce Hammondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-1162668797801017322006-11-05T08:33:00.000+13:002006-11-05T08:33:00.000+13:00Someone once told me that secondary schools were l...Someone once told me that secondary schools were like large cities - they have great things going on in some quarters and parts you wouldn't want to know about. Trouble is the kids who have get more, and the ones who have less get kicked out. <BR/><BR/>Primary schools are more like small towns - everyone kows what you are up to so it is all a bit conformist.<BR/><BR/>Courage is required to be creative in either!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-1162636238795173912006-11-04T23:30:00.000+13:002006-11-04T23:30:00.000+13:00While primary teachers seem to hold the high groun...While primary teachers seem to hold the high ground, when it comes to pedagogy, the work their students do is all too often shallow as a result of a lack of teacher content knowledge ( 'higher order thinking for thin learning'). <BR/><BR/>Secondary teachers, by contrast, fall into the trap of simply 'transmitting' what they consider to be important content ( 'jusy in case' learning).<BR/><BR/>If schools could amalgamate both ( inquiry and in depth learning) then all would be winners; most of all the students.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-1162611061657307272006-11-04T16:31:00.000+13:002006-11-04T16:31:00.000+13:00You have tapped into the real challenge of educati...You have tapped into the real challenge of education at any level - helping learners engage in realistic tasks to 'construct' their own meanings about issues that concern them - and, in the process, to call on the knowledge and ways of working of the many different ways humans explore and express ideas, and, as well, to make use of others ( their teachers, but not exclusively) assistance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com