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Ministry considering authoritarian post-election moves
The schools don’t want you there: most of them detest you (nothing personal, of course). Don’t you see the Orwellian nature of your role: the information-gathering, information-aggregating, authoritarian, fear-based nature of your work? Oh, congratulations on your new job. When you entered teaching I’m sure you had in mind such a role for yourself. I hope schools make you feel wanted and at ease. Yes, you’re there ‘identifying schools for flexible response.’ Which, translated, means you are there to apply the full institutional weight of the government and bureaucracies to bully schools into submission. Charming.... more
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May 23, 2011: A brief overview of where we are now
When a school feels it is being bullied, being undermined bureaucratically, as a result of its opposition to national standards – it should be able to appeal to the action groups for support. The support could come through senior principals visiting the school to check out the fairness and validity of bureaucratic actions and then for their findings to be expressed in a media release.... more
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Try a feeling for social studies teaching unit
Five for $30.00 including one free on another list, so six in all.
The units in the first list are at least 12 pages long, come with some illustrations and their own Blackline Masters.
In the teaching, I will be happy to provide advice.
A number of the units come with key school journal text provided.
The $30.00 includes postage. Units cannot be sold singly.
All the units have been well trialled.
Choose five:
How to study a volcano;
How to study a river... more
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One little word and let us dance
This posting discusses how we inherited a dream, an extension of our education and cultural past, how we lost it, and the implications of the non-authentic education system we now have. The posting goes on to describe how the resulting spiritual sense of loss has left teachers bewildered and confused. To resolve this, a single system change is suggested. As a result of this single system change, it is suggested, teachers will feel sufficiently free to return to a holistic, unifying philosophy – one based on the interaction of the affective with a firmly established cognitive base. Considerable attention is given to describing how structure and coverage can be established and ensured in such holistic programmes. This posting suggests, though, that when holistic teaching is being considered, teachers’ idealism can lead to imprecise thinking. As a result, this posting discusses such teaching concepts as child choice, direct and indirect experience, and learning by doing.... more
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When will the testing bubble burst?
An outstanding article in the Washington Post, and a letter posted by Roger Goulstone, principal of Valley School Pukekohe, sent to his local mp commenting on a statement by Tolley.... more
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EROWARS
During one of the temporary short cease-fires, all members of the BOT are herded into the staffroom for a ‘chat’… but everyone feels the word ‘chat’ really means high pressure interrogation. This fear is soon realised as the board members are asked trick questions about school finances, employment law, and privacy legislation. These well-meaning volunteers are made to look totally inadequate and usually leave the meeting wondering why they bothered to become a trustee. If the principal intervenes he or she does so at his or her peril because this is interpreted as a ‘Captured Board’ or a desperate attempt to defend woeful weakness. So most principals have to sit quietly and endure watching their board member’s taking bullets point, point blank.... more
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Phil Goff - take the advice of Cromwell: In the name of God go!
To the putative challengers: If you don’t have the courage to stake your career on a challenge, don’t come out of the wreckage in a few months saying you are the new hope – you won’t be, because have already demonstrated you aren’t.... more
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How can we become more creative?
And there was John, some book or article always on the go on the side; regularly disappearing with groups of students in a whirlwind of organisation down to some triangle of which Rotorua apparently was a point; tearing along the corridor with a distracted air, intent on some new way to stir the students’ imagination; and with letters regularly appearing in newspapers on topics such a peace, Maori-Pakeha relations, multiculturalism, and the environment.... more
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Breaking news: Tolley moves against Martin Thrupp
Tolley moves against Martin Thrupp.... more
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A sparrow falling
At a time when school education is facing severe cuts, the ministry of education has contracted a person or company to censor literacy and ESOL on-line discussion criticising ministry policies, especially policies concerning national standards and Pasifika education. And at the heart of the controversy is the cutting of support for 22 Samoan bilingual classes, 3 Tongan, and 2 Cook Island.... more
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