Tag: Teacher Practice

What students want

June 21, 2010

I like Andy Hargreaves and Dennis Shirley’s assertion in the Fourth Way that ‘Without students, there would be no teachers. Their voices matter a lot.’ It does seem incongruous that in a student-centred model, students have little input into process.  In an attempt to rectify this, Hargreaves and Shirley include students as partners of change … More What students want

Our educational canon

May 24, 2010

As our state and federal governments prepare for upcoming elections, it’s been interesting to examine their policy positions on education.  As always, the incumbent  party’s position is rejected by the opposition with no middle ground. The rejection usually focuses on cutting (mostly) or increasing (rarely) funding for a range of programs. Never do we have a … More Our educational canon