Archive for the ‘Teaching’ Category
Howard Jacobson on why education should focus on ‘the best’
Howard Jacobson’s piece in The Independent last Saturday caused my hackles to rise somewhat. I won’t bore you with the whole thing (which you can read here should you want to), but rather just quote the bit towards the end of his piece about the new Education Secretary – Michael Gove:
I confess to a liking for Michael Gove. He is a cultivated man and looks the way a cultivated man should look – always just a touch unkempt, cross-toothed and with a bit of a headache (I’m talking of impression, not fact), ironical, intellectually impatient, not quite inhabiting the space, as the two Cs (that’s Cameron and Clegg) occupy space, carved out for him by privilege. He is also, against all the prevailing orthodoxies, Arnoldian. Read the rest of this entry »
The Tory approach to classroom management
It was interesting to hear that the Tories are wanting to get more ex-soldiers into the classroom to re-instill (sic) a sense of discipline in our young people. This got me thinking. What would classroom management look like under the Tories? Well, as usual, we are one step ahead. This classic film about classroom management presents an approach from times gone by:
However, this remake (not for the squeamish) is much more in line with what I think the Tories are proposing:
