tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post4196167505684162284..comments2024-03-28T00:28:06.035+13:00Comments on leading and learning: Memo: the challenge of the NZ CurriculumBruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-50416782284504813212008-11-17T10:16:00.000+13:002008-11-17T10:16:00.000+13:00Evidently the Scottish teachers resisted National ...Evidently the Scottish teachers resisted National testing - if they can we should be able to. But whatever we have to show we are accountable.Bruce Hammondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-13790213734950810272008-11-16T17:29:00.000+13:002008-11-16T17:29:00.000+13:00What I keep coming back to is that they can't brin...What I keep coming back to is that they can't bring in testing if teachers simply refuse to do it! We should all stand tall here.Suzie Vesperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12556191935004736209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-2275110545646500162008-11-15T08:48:00.000+13:002008-11-15T08:48:00.000+13:00Thanks anonymous. There is no balance in our curre...Thanks anonymous. There is no balance in our current schooling- even in the best of our primary schools.<BR/><BR/>And the USA National Testing ( NCLB) is the last thing we want in NZ. Our kids are tested enough now. As it is said it ought to be 'about teaching and about time'.Bruce Hammondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-78763557418731642922008-11-07T08:13:00.000+13:002008-11-07T08:13:00.000+13:00If we change the Government in NZ I can't see intr...If we change the Government in NZ I can't see introducing national testing as a 'courageous transformational change towards a better future' - more step back into the past. Be just a copy of President Bush's failing NCLB or the UK's equally failing national testing and league tables. No creativity in either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-50545387714974873152008-11-01T20:31:00.000+13:002008-11-01T20:31:00.000+13:00Just to confirm your comments Bruce in light of ou...Just to confirm your comments Bruce in light of our election:<BR/><BR/>Do they ever need it! This No Child Left Behind law, tying school funding to test results, has bled all of the fun and enrichment out of the school day. Second and third graders -- six to eight year olds -- only get recess two days a week, and art and music and library get an hour each, so that teachers can concentrate on teaching to the test. A test that drives the kids bonkers, with its ambiguously-worded questions and rigorously inside-the-box thinking. Don't get me started.)<BR/><BR/>We sure as hell don't need this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-25214896084530947462008-11-01T11:14:00.000+13:002008-11-01T11:14:00.000+13:00I have convinced myself that the education ideas (...I have convinced myself that the education ideas ( hardly original) I wrote up in my blog are the way to go. Schools that don't move in such directions are living in the past, simply frightened to move , or haven't thought it out! As for National's testing....Bruce Hammondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-57609266258192741002008-10-30T16:50:00.000+13:002008-10-30T16:50:00.000+13:00Couldn't agree more Bruce. What a challenge though...Couldn't agree more Bruce. What a challenge though. What would we use for targets if we didn't spend 4/5 of the day on Literacy and Numeracy? Oh that's right the other 5 curriculum areas all taken in the 1/5 of the day left. Balance????Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com