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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...

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 ...

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 Arriving at a Definition of Learning 'Personalized and blended learning and differentiated instruction should be viewed as interrelated supports for deep learning.’ https://edut.to/2IzXTPm Play based learning ‘ However, the play environment is only one part of the puzzle in supporting and observing how children learn through pla y.   Much of the critical work is unseen to the 'naked eye' by visitors intent on seeing how schools 'do' play in their environment.’ http://bit.ly/2yeX7Cw Why an education in visual arts is the key to arming students for the future ' Visual skills are essential  for a sophisticated workforce , yet we offer so little education in the vital sk...

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. We welcome suggested articles, so if you come across a gem, email it to me at allanalach@inspire.net.nz Secret Teacher NZ: Why I left teaching? ‘I sat down to write this and had to start over many times. I’m not sure how to go about explaining why I left teaching in a way that doesn’t come off as judgy, or blamey or a woe-is-me tale . I suppose many educators feel like this. Teaching seems to be the one profession everyone feels qualified to have an opinion on, seeing as we all went through a school at some point.’ http://bit.ly/2M4YVYC The Destruction of New Zealand's Public Education System Dave Kennedy wrote this back on 2014. Has there been any change? Worse? Better? About the same? ‘ This government is destroying our amazing collaborative, holistic public education system that recently led the world...