tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post208039421500729050..comments2024-03-28T00:28:06.035+13:00Comments on leading and learning: Focussing on developing student's passionsBruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-90232614907442012422011-07-15T18:33:07.098+12:002011-07-15T18:33:07.098+12:00I am constantly amazed at what MOE and the PTB (po...I am constantly amazed at what MOE and the PTB (powers that be) consider acceptable in NZ. <br />It seems that what they want to know is control and control means contain original thinking and creativity. We need to keep challenging the norms and ask the questions of the schools and the politicians. When do we help people be better thinking people who can do and think and make things happen with more than number 8 wire and determinationRoberta KISTShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533090914766907562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-89306631478318979992011-07-10T12:23:03.869+12:002011-07-10T12:23:03.869+12:00Tranform or become pleasant educational dinosaurs ...Tranform or become pleasant educational dinosaurs - clever kids will, as they get older, will go elsewhere to do their creating.Bruce Hammondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-83056482919481819682011-07-10T11:28:45.850+12:002011-07-10T11:28:45.850+12:00I think there is no 'may' about it ... we ...I think there is no 'may' about it ... we do need to change the whole system.<br />Teachers need to be responsible too - not blaming others but doing what they can, whenever they can to provide these risk taking experiences for themselves and the children in their class.Jody Hayeshttp://tiny.cc/voyagersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-41361167149816951722011-07-09T16:55:12.391+12:002011-07-09T16:55:12.391+12:00Looking at the combined message in your last two p...Looking at the combined message in your last two postings, and towards the vision of what could/should be, it seems that we're dealing with an ascending series of control issues.<br /><br />For children to be allowed to flourish in the environment that you depict so well, teachers need to let go, to provide the space for this. Risk taking, in other words. Moving up the scale, teachers need space to flex their wings and to take risks. This then places the onus on their school leaders, who also have to take the risk of freeing teachers, and this in turn requires a farsighted BOT ( a reasonably rare beast, it would seem, going by the standards compliance situation).<br /><br />BOTs need to be allowed the space and freedom to enable principals and teachers to develop creative schools, and this is not likely to happen in a compliance/accountability culture framed by MOE and governments and enforced by ERO. <br /><br />Classic loose/tight control - devolution of authority to create the illusion of 'freedom' followed by the establishment of rigorous accountability requirements to ensure that control is maintained. <br /><br />Review what happened in the early years of "Tomorrow's Schools' - at the same time BOTs were being set up to allow community input, a very comprehensive charter was issued that locked their operations into place, and ERO's focus was on extreme 'ticking the boxes' accountability.<br /><br />To change schools, we may need to change the whole system.Allan Alachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18158713687489914185noreply@blogger.com