Friday, 20 March 2015
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
Webinar - http://goo.gl/wHVtfT
Webinar - http://goo.gl/wHVtfT
Many thanks to WizIQ for giving me this opportunity to share my ideas with the world. Thank you also to all who signed up to my webinar last night. I was encouraged by all the positive comments. I hope educators world wide will take 'flipped learning' on board and show decision makers what really makes a difference.
Many thanks to WizIQ for giving me this opportunity to share my ideas with the world. Thank you also to all who signed up to my webinar last night. I was encouraged by all the positive comments. I hope educators world wide will take 'flipped learning' on board and show decision makers what really makes a difference.
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Saturday, 7 March 2015
What the Government Should Focus On if Education is to Improve
The top area the government should focus on is to attract 'good' people into teaching AND to prevent the 'good' teachers from leaving the profession (which they are doing in large numbers, particularly in STEM subjects). The government has tried in vain (by offering cash incentives) to address the first part but their attempts clearly illustrate they are clueless. If they keep employing this same strategy they should realise they will get the same outcome: more teachers leaving the profession.
Until the government removes all the unnecessary time wasting activities that teachers have to do and upon which they are judged, and give back the autonomy they had in the 70s, there will be no improvement. Check out my article 'Why are Teachers made to use their valuable time so inefficiently?' at http://goo.gl/HRFmG4.
Both the security and wealth of a country depends on educating the youth to be independent learners and the state system, with its focus on league tables and statistics and run by those who could not survive a month carrying out their own proposals, is clearly failing in that. Hence the reason private tuition is the fastest growing industry in the UK.
Until the government removes all the unnecessary time wasting activities that teachers have to do and upon which they are judged, and give back the autonomy they had in the 70s, there will be no improvement. Check out my article 'Why are Teachers made to use their valuable time so inefficiently?' at http://goo.gl/HRFmG4.
Both the security and wealth of a country depends on educating the youth to be independent learners and the state system, with its focus on league tables and statistics and run by those who could not survive a month carrying out their own proposals, is clearly failing in that. Hence the reason private tuition is the fastest growing industry in the UK.
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