tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post6690500177937709662..comments2024-03-28T00:28:06.035+13:00Comments on leading and learning: Some heretical thoughtsBruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-90922559446672583262007-07-16T23:24:00.000+12:002007-07-16T23:24:00.000+12:00Without heresy nothing changes! Trouble is, those ...Without heresy nothing changes! Trouble is, those who think they know best find it difficult to listen to alternative voices!Bruce Hammondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-35415216043198482872007-07-15T12:28:00.000+12:002007-07-15T12:28:00.000+12:00Too much of what happens in schools ( even in so c...Too much of what happens in schools ( even in so called 'child centred' primary schools) is based on the premise that without teachers arranging programes and testing them children would learn little - the school lives of many gifted people would prove the opposite is true.<BR/><BR/>More heresy!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-71236599051773674312007-07-14T11:35:00.000+12:002007-07-14T11:35:00.000+12:00This whole timetable thing, bells, standardized cu...This whole timetable thing, bells, standardized curriculums , testing, kids working in segregated age batches controlled by teachers, etc, are the leftover ideas of an antiquated mechanical industrial era.<BR/><BR/>In a 21stC fast changing environment education ought to more 'organic' - emerging from the interests, concerns and creativity of the students. Learning 'advisers' and students 'co-creating' together. 'I.E.P's for all!<BR/><BR/>Your brain is on the right track - sorry direction!Bruce Hammondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-35698859125790102742007-07-13T18:06:00.000+12:002007-07-13T18:06:00.000+12:00Classrooms that don't have the day sectioned up in...Classrooms that don't have the day sectioned up into 'blocks' of time for subjects for all five days of the week ... I know why it is done... I know why the principal and parents like it ... but I really don't think my brain works like that... learning for me has always been some formal some play and a lot of thinking and experimenting.<BR/>JodyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com