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What makes a teacher great ? Read what Sir Ken Robinson says

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Education Readings By Allan Alach Every week Bruce Hammonds and I collect articles to share with teachers to encourage a creative approach to teaching and learning. I welcome suggested articles, so if you come across a gem, email it to me at allanalach@inspire.net.nz   This edition will be the last one for 2018 . We appreciate it a busy time with political action, end of term activities, and school reports but suggest you save readings to cherry pick mid Janua ry Sir Ken Robinson: What makes a teacher great? ‘Education innovator Sir Ken Robinson, School News deliberated over misconceptions about great teaching. “ It’s assumed, I think, that to be a good teacher essentially all you need is to have a good degree in whatever it is you’re being paid to teach,” Sir Ken noted. “It’s simply not true, it was never true.’ http://bit.ly/2RgDvGl Rewards Are Still Bad News (25 Years Later) By A lfie Koh n ‘It’s not just that these two are different but that the first tends to undermine the se...
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Teachers strike / Creativity at Spotswood College NP / outdoor educ. / future education - Sir Ken Robinson

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Education Readings By Allan Alach Every week Bruce Hammonds and I collect articles to share with teachers to encourage a creative approach to teaching and learning. I welcome suggested articles, so if you come across a gem, email it to me at allanalach@inspire.net.nz Teacher strike. Put yourself in teachers' shoes ‘Teacher strikes are an inconvenience to parents for all of one day but I wonder if those who moan have really put themselves in the shoes of the teachers . Have they asked why they're doing it? As the teachers say, they are doing it for the future of our children. ’ http://bit.ly/2r2TBIp Our teachers earn apples and oranges so let's bring back the 1970's way of offering them free housing ‘The day the teachers went on strike, someone put a simple graphic on Facebook. It set out two sets of salary numbers.: MP $18,000 - Teacher $17,360; Today: MP $160,024 - Teacher $78,000. This was something I'd been lamenting for ages, possibly even in this column: when ...
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What teachers did under National / the urgency to unlearn / the future of learning / the challenge of creativity.

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The end of a week of rolling strikes in NZ Education Readings By Allan Alach Every week Bruce Hammonds and I collect articles to share with teachers to encourage a creative approach to teaching and learning. I welcome suggested articles, so if you come across a gem, email it to me at allanalach@inspire.net.nz Why didn't teachers strike when National was in? I'll tell you what we did!! Confronting National's Min Tolley ‘ This blog post aims to put that to bed.   Because teachers did not sit quietly during National's tenure .   They, with the NZEI and PPTA, stood strong against #GERM neoliberal policies set up to destroy our free quality public education system.   Because of teachers, Minister of Education Chris Hipkins and the coalition government have the bones and a bit of flesh still left.’ http://bit.ly/2RVjkOq Why Are We Still Assigning Homework? ‘I am asking that teachers who are assigning homework really think about why you are assigning it . I want parents to th...
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Burnt out teachers and stressed students / Armistice Day / creative education

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11th of the 11th 1918 Education Readings   By Allan Alach I know a school I know a school where almost all the students are successful. It's an interesting plac e. They don't give grades at this school. There are no numbers. No test scores. No SAT, ACT, no GPA or other acronyms. No rankings. Yet, the kids are more than alright. They create amazing things. They contribute to their communities in all sorts of ways. They're happy. They love coming to school. Those that want to go to college after they graduate. Others take different paths, which everyone celebrates. We talk about success in schools as if it were a data point. It's not. And even if it were, you really think the data we're collecting now equates to success in any but the most tenuous ways? Look at your kids. Talk to them. See if they love to learn. See if they have passion. See if they care. See if they're happy. Those are much clearer indicators of "success" than any set of numbers can sup...
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