onsdag 22. oktober 2014

Key priorities for schools

What should schools emphasise to change their learning culture from testing and banking, to learning and LLL?

Thinking about what key areas schools need to emphasise in the future, it is easy to just look at the negatives - stop banking, stop testing (so much), stop, stop, stop, stop. 

Instead I think we need to look at the positive suggestions, asking for more learning-postive initiatives. Perhaps a school (in its given milieu) would need to emphasise playing as an integral part of learning (for life) and learning key competencies for learning later in college and as an adult. Check out this: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/22/opinion/the-building-blocks-of-a-good-pre-k.html?hp&action=click&p... where a letter to The New York Tomes discusses playing as an important learning component for Pre-K (4 y.o.) children now that the city of New York as implemented universal Pre-K in the city. 

School also need to be able to judge key priorities based on their own socio-economic situations/milieus. Perhaps some key priorities work for some schools - maybe - and perhaps they would work very poorly for others. The headmasters and teachers, in collaboration with parents, are the best ones to make that call. (Implying, thus, that we need to trust our headmasters, teachers and parents). 
The emphasis on what if for key priorities is to emphasise the need to discuss, share experiences also with regards to key priorities and not just concrete lesson plans. Greater collaboration on a headmaster level, and collaboration with fex government agencies (as suggested by Dr Jane Perryman of the University of London) would be a far more positive, pro-learning approach to school administration and structures.  

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