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| Horizons and ....... |
Education
Readings
By Allan Alach
If you’re still a John Hattie fan I suggest you carefully read
the article “The Politics of Education Policy: Even More Beware the Technocrats.”
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| .....and whirlpools |
The first reference listed at the foot of the article attempts to
link to an article by Kelvin Smythe. This link no longer works and has been
replaced by this one: Horizons, whirlpools, Sartrean secrets, John Hattie and
other symptoms of the continuing education tragedy
I welcome suggested
articles, so if you come across a gem, email it to me at allanalach@inspire.net.nz
Why
I Want to Karate-Chop the SmartBoard and 19 Other Rants
‘I
worked for a district who had the nicest SmartBoards and projectors around. I
liked them, they were easy to use, and they were only there a few years. But,
the darndest thing happened: the same year we took a forced pay freeze, the
district purchased new equipment – because if they didn’t they’d lose the
money. Socrates, one of the world’s greatest teachers, stood at a stone podium
and gave his students one question to discuss for the entire day. Just give me
the $5,000 it cost for that new tech equipment and let me be Socrates.’
Piles
of paperwork stopping teachers doing what they're good at
‘At
the top of the list of the roadblocks are the piles of paperwork that
increasingly stand in the way of good teaching. The teachers starting out this
week didn't become teachers to fill in endless forms; they became teachers to
change lives.’
What
Do Schools Fostering A Teacher “Growth Mindset” Look Like?
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| Carol Dweck |
‘Yet,
school leaders and teachers scarcely talk about how to adopt a growth mindset
for themselves—one that assumes that educators, not only the students they
teach, can improve with support and practice. Many teachers find it hard to
imagine working in a school with a professional culture designed to cultivate
their development, rather than one in which their effectiveness is judged and
addressed with rewards and sanctions.’
A
Recipe for Inspiring Lifelong Learning
A veteran teacher reflects on his quest to inspire intrinsic
motivation and curiosity in his students.
‘It
made me reflect over my career as an educator, and what kinds of impressions I
have left in the hearts and minds of the many students I have taught. I would
like to hope that the impressions I left were favorable, even memorable. One of
the impressions I hope to have left is that students had success in their
learning when they were in my class.’
The
Politics of Education Policy: Even More Beware the Technocrats
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| John Hattie |
‘Coleman
and Hattie work to control what counts and what matters—the ultimate in
politics—and thus are welcomed resources for those benefitting from inequity
and wishing to keep everyone’s gaze on anything except that inequity.'
Contributed by Bruce Hammonds:
8 Ways to Help Older Kids Develop a Sense of Imagination
‘Because imaginative thinking hones creativity and
improves students’ social and emotional skills, it’s something that teachers
and schools should fold into their planning. Ostroff identified several
strategies teachers can adopt to encourage older students to activate their
dormant imaginations.’
Blue Sky High - five things every
secondary school should
implement...now
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| Blue sky thinking by Claire Amos |
'I believe that implementing the following five things
would be a relatively easy way for any school to evolve so as to ensure
students are gaining the skills needed now (not 100 years ago) and in the
future. Whether you refer to them as the infuriatingly named "21st century
skills" such as collaboration, problem solving and critical thinking, or
simply as a way of genuinely fostering what the New Zealand Curriculum (NZC)
refer to as key competencies, particularly relating to others, managing self
and participating and contributing.' Claire Amos
Real Learning is a Creative Process
7 Reasons Why Differentiated Instruction Works
‘Differentiated instruction (DI) begins with an accurate
understanding of what DI is—and is not. You may be surprised how
easy it is to incorporate into your classrooms.'
The Man Who Will Save Math
Dan Meyer, the most famous math teacher in America, wants to
radically change the way we learn math.
This, Dan Meyer says, is how too many students experience
mathematics.’
From Bruce’s ‘goldie
oldies’ file:
Living at the Creative Edge: School transformation
An Australian school that caters for ‘disadvantaged students’
The Power of Biography!
‘Too often personalized learning is missing; lost in all
the teacher imposed curriculum and assessment requirements; too much teacher
'delivery' of curriculums and not enough 'designing' personalised studies. One
idea to remedy this situation is to study the significant and personal
greatness of our student’s lives through biography. This could lead into, or
emerge out of, a study of the biography of famous people, or the recording of
the oral history of their parents, or of local people of interest.’
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