Education Readings
By Allan Alach
Readings set Two 2019
The dawn of a new creative era in education
Our next set of
readings will feature practical activities to begin the school year but this
set provides reflective readings Bruce Hammonds and I have found that
might to help you clarify your teaching philosophy.
In the latest
Principals’ Magazine ( Nov 2018) the president Whetu Cormack makes the
point, with the move away from standardisation with the change of government (
and their
removal of National Standards), that we are entering into a more
creative era – an era that many teachers, he writes, have not experienced. He
believes schools are no being given the freedom to rethink what learning
experiences they want to offer young people. In particular, he writes about
the importance of the creative arts and their role in developing the
imagination. As he says that the ‘decades of neo-liberalism has almost
suffocated the life out of the arts ‘We have a chance to ‘rebuild our
battered
and bruised education system;. Another writer, in the same magazine, talks about the opportunity to have a ‘broader, deeper, richer curriculum’ and that a ‘fresh
breeze is rising’ and that teachers need to be ready ‘to take up the challenge’. For teachers to ‘promote a bit more surprise, and dreaming, and wondering and
creating in our classrooms'.
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| Whetu Cormick - an exciting new era |
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| The importance of creativity |
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The Tomorrows
School Review. The end of a neoliberal
experiment – don’t forget to have your say!
‘If
Minister of Education Chris Hipkins needs confirmation that the Tomorrow’s
Schools Taskforce
report had got it right, the negative comments of several
prominent Auckland secondary school principals will have him absolutely
convinced the review is on the right track. .
Thirty years of a business model approach to education has wreaked
havoc on our schooling system. It has created some schools as winners at significant
expense to the poorest and most vulnerable communities. We have seen this
two tiered education system mirror and then reinforce growing inequality, and
the creation of an increasingly rigid class system.’
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| Chris Hipkins |
Our schooling
system needs changing - and here's why by Bali
Haque
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| Bali Haque - Review Chair |
Forget literacy
and numeracy – it’s all about talent development.
‘Surely our
first task in schools should be to identify what each one of our students can
do. What
talents do they have? There’s
increasing evidence that suggests that if students show a preference, passion
or natural aptitude for a certain area, then ultimately, despite what “school” might
think, there’s a very good chance that it will be those areas that will
provide them with their best career and life choices. And then we have to
have the discussion around expertise. To what extent do we provide our students
with the opportunity to become exceptional? To be able to go deep.’
The importance of
inquiry, imagination and agency.
‘The
public debate around what our schools could and should be has finally reached a
tipping
point. It’s a tipping point
where talk becomes action, a point when the need for change becomes so
overwhelming that school leaders across the
country are now urgently wanting to be better informed about the choices they
now have and critically, the pathways to get there. The overwhelming pace of
change in our personal lives can inhibit our ability to reflect on the
consequences for our professional lives. Too often it causes us to hesitate or
postpone making the necessary commitment to make changes in our practice and in
our schools.’
How Curious Are
You? What happens to students’ curiosity?
‘If
we assume our young people arrive on the planet curious about the world around
them, asking
questions about anything and everything, what happens to them? Do
they just ‘lose’ their natural curiosity and ‘grow
out of it’, or is it that we really do manage to teach the curiosity out of
them? If curiosity is really the essential food of learning, then the
obvious question is, why don’t we focus more on developing searchingly curious
minds as a priority in our students?’
Inside an ‘Innovative
Learning Environment - For.
‘Next
year a fresh cadre of bright-eyed and refreshed students will enter schools
around the
country. For many, at both primary and secondary level, they will be
walking into a sleek modern building.
Welcome to the Innovative Learning Environment, or ‘ILE’. The Ministry of Education is committed to
giving every school access to ‘a learning environment that best supports
educational success. So what’s it like behind the glass? What goes on for
students and teachers? Well, first of all there’s a terminology to master.’
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| What are your thoughts? |
Modern teaching
trends a “monstrous threat to social justice” What do you think about this?
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| Kevin Knight isn't keen! |
Rethinking Data:
How to Create a Holistic View of Students
‘For
at least a decade now, the driving force behind education reform has been data.
We talk about collecting data, analyzing data, and making data-driven
decisions. All of this data can certainly be useful, helping us notice patterns
we might not have seen. And yet, we know this is not enough. We know our
students bring with them so many other kinds of data. So many other factors
contribute to academic success.’
What if personalized learning was less
about me and more about us?
‘The
project in this article typifies the mix of personalized and social learning
that has been a mainstay for 25 years at King,
a founding member of a school network called EL Education. The network sets
these schools apart from a more recent wave of personalized learning, which has
been dominated by technology and dogged by criticism that it isolates
students from each other and from larger purpose of learning.’
We Need to Make Kindergarten Engaging Again
Make Your
Classroom More Like a Playground Than a Playpen Using ‘Hard Fun
A message to high
school students who hate school
' I believe that every sing;w subject taught at high school is a mistake. What I write here will infuriate teachers, but teachers are not my enemy. It isn't their fault. They are cogs in a system over which they have no control.'
' I believe that every sing;w subject taught at high school is a mistake. What I write here will infuriate teachers, but teachers are not my enemy. It isn't their fault. They are cogs in a system over which they have no control.'
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