tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post2897748654667421686..comments2024-03-28T00:28:06.035+13:00Comments on leading and learning: How to run an education system: questionnaire by Kelvin SmytheBruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-73179984517069637092012-02-16T10:48:46.920+13:002012-02-16T10:48:46.920+13:00Greetings cobber!
Thanks for your comments - I pa...Greetings cobber!<br /><br />Thanks for your comments - I passed them on to Kelvin and he also says thanks.<br /><br />It wil take brave teachers indeed to confront the technocratic authorities (and their political masters) - but only courageous teachers have ever made a difference. Principals will become too busy looking after themselves or their schools reputations as an efficient educational factory.<br /><br />What has happened in OZ (and in the UK and the US) will happen in New Zealand.Bruce Hammondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-61949004270007841452012-02-16T00:38:23.257+13:002012-02-16T00:38:23.257+13:00I have just read your latest blog.
The same thin...I have just read your latest blog. <br /><br />The same thing is happening in Australia. How on earth do you reverse what is occurring? It must be extremely difficult for NZ teachers endeavouring to meet the unachievable expectations placed upon them. To publicly question education policy in the past was challenging but to do so now would appear to be suicidal. Teacher anxiety/depression must be on the increase as it would appear, on reading Kelvin Smythe’s answers to his questionnaire,that they have no support at all within the community and maligned by the press when they pluck up the courage to question what is occurring.<br /><br />In Australia principals have just been given the authority to hire and fire staff ensuring that teachers who did have the courage to question the over emphasis placed on standardised testing results would quickly find themselves applying for another teaching position. Teachers who achieve improvement in student naplan results will be awarded with an increase in salary and the school increased funding while those schools struggling to do such will be punished financially and the teachers no doubt placed under greater pressure to perform. Eventually the best teachers and students will gravitate to the perceived elite schools leaving under resourced teachers and schools to manage the learning of students of parents in low socio/ economic regions which of course are becoming more prevalent in today’s two speed economy. If your income is derived from the booming resource based industries you are doing extremely well financially however if you aren’t things are becoming more difficultAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-23988914382689563602012-02-16T00:26:57.252+13:002012-02-16T00:26:57.252+13:00Makes the clearest case for ideological interferen...Makes the clearest case for ideological interference in education I have ever seen!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-9423590299629628872012-02-15T06:12:07.842+13:002012-02-15T06:12:07.842+13:00BrilliantBrilliantAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com