How would schools need to change to stay a part of learning pathways?
What do we lose by not having compulsory curricula?
What do we gain by not having compulsory curricula?
Who else would start becoming a major part of peoples’ learning? Businesses? Churches? Community workers?
Would there be impacts on health and welfare?
How would learning be evidenced?
Why? (for all of the questions above!)
This question storm is Day 6 of my Question Quest.
Seeing your Principal send a tweet like this is so incredibly affirming and validating of the work you have been undertaking. Especially when it comes on a day where your team is sharing the outcome of weeks of work putting together the structures for learning to take place in your school.
The time spent on the vision, values etc. last term was the foundation for the structures coming into place over the past 2 weeks. All our decisions in putting these in place are well grounded in the school vision and values. Then in one day this week we introduced the staff to all the structures supporting the delivery of our curriculum: Continue reading
On June 13th I was lucky to attend John Morgan’s inaugural public lecture at the University of Auckland. It was entitled “Schooling the Crisis: Education in the aftermath of the financial crisis.”
John Morgan preparing for his lecture
What follows is a synopsis of John’s lecture with my reflections integrated into it.
For the last 3 decades schooling has been thought of as preparation for the real world. So far, the post financial crisis of the last 5 years has not made people question what needs to change in schooling. Yet we need to acknowledge that we are preparing students for uncertain futures.
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