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Lets see the end of our financial rulers! Education Readings By Allan Alach I welcome suggested articles, so if you come across a gem, email it to me at allanalach@inspire.net.nz Mathematics Part 1: The mathematics pendulum Here’s a two part series by Kelvin Smythe on the teaching of mathematics . ‘I have long wanted to have Charlotte Wilkinson, an independent mathematics consultant, set out her ideas on mathematics but, in the previous education environment, any association with me would have been dangerous for her work. With that changed, I am delighted to present two writings from her which are an overview of nearly everything in mathematics.’  http://bit.ly/2ugOmcy Mathematics Part 2: Producing literate and numerate children ‘An increasing amount of information is shared in a digital format, therefore there is an ever increasing need for people to be numerate, not just able to carry out set procedures. Being numerate requires an understanding of basic arithmetic, the...

In the latest Principals’ magazine the National President of the NZ Principal Federation Whetu Whetu Cormack Cormack writes that we are at the ‘ start of a new educational era’ . ‘Standardisation has gone along with the competition it engendered, the narrowed curriculum, the obsession with data, and the endless comparison.’ Business ‘guru’ Steven Covey’s advice, writing about habits of effective leadership, was to ‘begin with end in mind’ . What do we want our schools to achieve for their students? What do we need to change to ensure the unique range of gifts and talents of our students?   Lester Flockton , in the same principals’ magazin e, makes the point that New Zealand’s rankings in international tests have been falling commenting ironically that this is at a time of considerable literacy Lester Flockton and   numeracy intensification.   In the 70s New Zealand was a world leader in literacy – now, it seems, we are 32 nd !  Tomorrow’sSchools (1986), Flockto...

Education Readings By Allan Alach I welcome suggested articles, so if you come across a gem, email it to me at allanalach@inspire.net.nz Why is online learning ‘all fur coat and no knickers’? We design to forget. ‘Online learning has gone down the ‘all fur coat and no knickers’ route. It ’s more presentation than pedagogy, more look and feel than learning . Rather than focus on what makes learning a success in terms of retention and recall, it allows the learner to skate across the surface of a thin layer of nicely designed but thin ice . It often creates the illusion of learning by illustrative graphics/animation that, as Mayer often showed, actually inhibit rather than help retention.’ http://bit.ly/2tlN5jK 3 Ways to Combat Recipe Learnin g ‘Rubrics were all the rage so I thought that by giving all the same project and using the rubric I was differentiating for my students because they got to decide where they fit on the rubric. What I didn’t know at the time was I was expecting all ...