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A culture that values student curiosity and creativity above all 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 Kids are not better at technology than adults. ‘ The difference between kids that are deemed better than adults with technology is not some innate ability; it is their willingness to push buttons . To see what happens. To act on their curiosity.  That’s it.’ http://bit.ly/2rtWMbW Should School Be Fun? (The answer is yes) ‘I also just want my students to enjoy their time in my class and school as much as possible. Because when a student is having fun, they are engaged and learn better. Research has shown that students who are happy and feeling positive emotions are more likely to “take risks, solve more nonlinear problems that require insight, and genera...

 Originally posted as a blog in 2014 but still relevant 2018......things are now happening A creative education is the key for a positive future for all Dear Mr Hipkins.... A few thoughts to consider if we are to develop a 21st Education System   If Labour is to put the welfare of people ahead of economics (the current privatization winner/loser scenario of the National Party) then the creativity of all citizens must be the number one challenge if NZ is to develop  an inclusive and productive society. Dr Beeby Labour   needs to revisit Peter Fraser/ Dr Beeby’s vision of providing all students with an‘education of the kind they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of theirpowers ’ .    This vision has never been fully realized. To become a truly creative country we need to premise our education system on  the challenge of developing the gifts and talents of all students. Such a vision requires a move away from current standardisation, particularly...

Education Readings By Allan Alach Every week Bruce Hammonds and I collect article 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 Please view Lester Flockton's presentation below!! Tomorrow's Schools  -  Lester Flockton outlines gains ? losses ! and new opportunities. An important viewing for all teachers and BOTs. . . Taking the lead involves setting a direction that variously connects, reconnects, and disconnects policies and practices of the past and the present, while looking to the futur e. The past is recalled by a diminishing few. The present is all too familiar. The future is uncertain. Taking the lead involves giving certainty to direction, but this begs questions of which direction, whose direction, and how that direction is secured. Lester Flockton touches on some of the key issues and challenges that confront those would take th...

Valuing the power of imagination Education Readings By Allan Alach Every week Bruce Hammonds and I search out articles to encourage a creative approach to teaching and learning . We w elcome suggested articles, so if you come across a gem, email it to me at allanalach@inspire.net.nz Hattie’s Research is False Here’s a three part series from Kelvin Smythe, addressed to New Zealand University Vice-Chancellors, that comprehensively deconstructs John Hattie’s so-called ‘research’ . As Hattie and his acolytes have done, and are still doing, great damage to holistic education, all teachers need to be aware of the falsehoods in his findings. Other educationists have also found similar issues . ‘My concern is that none of the variables in his research are validly isolated or under control, resulting in an academic shambles that, in being left unexposed, has had devastating consequences for teachers and children around the world, and especially New Zealand.’ http://bit.ly/2Js6Fy8 http://bit.ly/...

Education Readings Students exploring the environment By Allan Alach Every week Bruce Hammonds and I search out articles worldwide 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 Letting Students Succeed as Themselves ( about NZ) An American teacher shares a lesson learned during time he spent in New Zealand schools . ‘ What if this idea were applied to other contexts? What if we in the U.S. worked to provide all of our students with knowledge to succeed and be proud in knowing who they are? School would be a different experience for these young people if they felt a connection to learning. School would be less about fulfilling external requirements and more about investing in a process that would be central to one’s current and future identity.’ https://edut.to/2JUskQq Seven reasons people no longer want to be teachers ( from Australia) How many of these ring bells for y...