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Time to refresh your energy 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 Time for art and history to rhyme Peter O ’ Connor : ‘The international evidence is crystal clear on the value of the arts in education.  Children in arts rich schools do better academically across all areas of the curriculum. They are more engaged and motivated to come to school.  Children who play musical instruments do better at maths, children who do drama are better at writing. Children who have access to the arts begin to understand and value the power of the imagination.' http://bit.ly/2R7n13Y School walls are oozing with unhelpful growth mindset cheese…. ‘ Get these slogans blown up and laminated and plaster your corridors and walls in them … Bingo! Go Growth Min...

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 The Importance of Curiosity and Challenge in Education ‘Whether “school” is the direct reason why kids lose curiosity over time shouldn’t matter. What should matter is that school should become a place where curiosity is developed in individuals no matter what factors have led to its decline.’ http://bit.ly/2NVUmQq Why are Americans so bad at math? This is very relevant all over and not just restricted to the USA ‘Research shows that t he way math is taught in schools and how its conceptualized as a subject is severely i mpairing American student's ability to learn and understand the material.’ http://bit.ly/2pn504N The Global Search For Education: The Need to Play “Giving children meaningful, quality, free play opp...

The NZ Suffragettes battle for woman to get the vote!   Who is this woman on our $10 note? The 1883 Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Electoral Bill passed through Parliament and was given the Royal Assent by the Governor Lord Glasgow on 19thSeptember 1893. I wonder how many New Zealand teachers took the time to discuss the importance of this event in the their classrooms?  Arrest and gaol in England! It's not just making students aware of woman getting the vote but trying to understand and imagine what it must have been like to be involved? That we all have the vote is taken for granted today  but it had been a hard won battle,  before this time only men had the right to vote. It would be a learning experience for students to begin to appreciate the challenge this was for woman facing up to the fierce opposition th at came from the men.   Students could research the history of the suffragette movement  world wide and the actions of those...

Kate Shepherd - Suffragette 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 Are you heading for a career burnout- the symptoms and  how to beat it? I can relate to this…. ‘Career burnout usually creeps in quite insidiously; slowly but surely over time .Tthe very nature of career burnout can make it physically and mentally difficult to draw up the required energy needed to address it.’ http://bit.ly/2xa4eeW Why This Time is Different - school reform the past 100 years. ‘“Given the number of books that have been written and papers that have been presented around  school change over more than 50 years by some very well informed and esteemed writers, why has there been so little change in schools and why do you think it will be any different this time ...

Mural assisted by n ex Art Adviser 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 Bruce went to visit a school. Here are two articles reflecting on what he saw: A walk around a creative school - the senior school ‘Years ago, before Tomorrow ’ s Schools, I belonged to a group of teachers who believed it was important to develop classrooms that featured student inquiry and creative work . My walk showed that, at least in this school, the idea of the importance of stimulating classrooms still continues.’ http://bit.ly/2LymyUa A walk around a creative school - the juniors ‘It was a pleasure to have the opportunity to walk around a school ’ s junior classrooms . From the impression one gets you might have thought all you might see is literacy and numeracy work but my...