tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post8762255097263946434..comments2024-03-28T00:28:06.035+13:00Comments on leading and learning: Creativity or back to the past?Bruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-91389631536445283812009-11-03T17:39:29.815+13:002009-11-03T17:39:29.815+13:00Hi Jody
The time is coming when teachers might ne...Hi Jody<br /><br />The time is coming when teachers might need to fight for what is right.<br /><br />Who will want to be a teacher in the future - what we will need are accountants.Bruce Hammondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-80651123254265559212009-11-03T17:01:50.108+13:002009-11-03T17:01:50.108+13:00And we see this narrowing already ... our arts adv...And we see this narrowing already ... our arts advisor is waiting to hear if she has a job for 2010... entries into the local childrens art exhibition by schools was well down this year and the reason given was either they are 'too busy' or 'not doing art this year'.<br />Who knows how narrow it will get by this time next year!Jodyhttp://tiny.cc/navigators366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-68626780534495244882009-11-03T06:43:15.487+13:002009-11-03T06:43:15.487+13:00The message I hear is principals aren't worrie...The message I hear is principals aren't worried about the standards - they are worried about them being converted into league tables. In this they are wrong. They need to be worried not putting on 'brave faces' for the reasons indicated by Sir Ken Robinson, the Cambridge Review, Kelvin Smythe etc. Over the past decades schools have allowed literacy and numeracy to over dominate their broad creative inquiry curriculums. Standards will simply continue this slide into a narrow teacher imposed curriculum. Personalisation is the diection we ought to be going - not standardisation or 'one size fits all'.Bruce Hammondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-65271395963572153452009-11-03T00:26:49.762+13:002009-11-03T00:26:49.762+13:00Sir Ken is always great value. It is a shame that ...Sir Ken is always great value. It is a shame that his ideas haven't reached our politicians.<br /><br />National Standards/testing sounds good at a surface level but I guess that where most people are at.<br /><br />I hope you are right when you say that perhaps this might be the 'straw' that teachers finally react to - or will they do their best to cope with it as is their way? The latter I think?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com