Tuesday - April 06, 2010

IZ DIS DE WAY TO LEARN KIDS IN SKOOL WHAT WILL LOOK MAYBE FOR FUTURE JOB? education?

Oh boy. Where to begin?  To think that there are people in authority who think this way and can have influence on education is not only scary, it is bizarre beyond all understanding.  Is it April 1st again?  How could any adult buy this crap? 

One of the things need doing here as folks know, is clearing up our categories. Here I am mentally adding another one called, YOU COULDN’T MAKE THIS UP.
Or similar wording.

Since this is a post is on education I will mention in passing that a report I saw today calls for teachers to smile at pupils and that is NOT a suggestion. It looks to become a new rule if I read correctly.  Also, some teachers are complaining about having to be reviewed when applying for their job, by kids between the ages of 11 and 16.  ? Could you have made that up?  Bizarre world the unfortunate Brits have built for themselves.  PLEASE, do not believe that all Brits are this stupid. They aren’t.  It’s a different culture with different traditions and a long standing belief in fair play which has been turned against them. There’s so much to explain but I’m the wrong person to do it.  Six years here have not made me any kind of expert on England. But I know folks are disgruntled, many hate the socialist govt. they have but don’t trust the cons any more then the lefties of the Labour Party. They call the Tories, Labour Lite. So that shows you the pickle they are in.

Sorry to be so long winded but I feel strongly about this place, even if it isn’t my country, and I hate to see it doomed.

Pupils who plagiarise from the web will get bonus marks

Michael Deacon uncovers some of the forthcoming initatives to make education more pupil-centred.

By Michael Deacon

Telegraph

School days are the best of your life. Well, unless you’re one of the staff. Teachers are complaining that their authority is being undermined by contentious initiatives intended to “empower” pupils. At one school in Kent, pupils have been given iPhones on which to email senior management with feedback on teachers’ “performance”; in other schools, pupils get a say in the hiring of teachers.

Staff will not be comforted by a confidential report I’ve uncovered from the Institute for the Development of Innovation-Oriented Teaching Skills (IDIOTS). It lists forthcoming initiatives that are as far-sighted and progressive as the above. Here are its highlights:

• Teachers must discontinue their antiquated practice of penalising pupils who do not give so-called “correct” answers. The concept of “correct” answers is elitist, as it discriminates against pupils who do not know them. Instead, pupils should be rewarded for demonstrating qualities such as imagination (for example, imagining that 6x4=32) and original thinking (for example, thinking that the capital of France is Africa, or that Winston Churchill invented the potato).

• The custom of grading pupils according to the merit of their work is divisive, as it fosters the outdated belief that it is better to be “clever” and “hard-working” than “stupid” and “lazy”. All pupils should be awarded identical grades, irrespective of ability.

• To avoid stigmatising pupils, teachers should refrain from employing negative terminology. Instead of telling a pupil that his answer is “wrong”, the teacher should tell him that it is “factually divergent from the norm”. Instead of calling a pupil “disobedient”, the teacher should call him “behaviourally unorthodox”. Instead of writing in the register that a pupil was “late”, the teacher should write that the pupil’s attendance was “deferred”. And instead of telling a pupil that he has “failed”, the teacher should tell him that he has “passed”.

• The teaching of history will be abolished, on account of its backward-looking focus on the past. In its place will be a new, more up-to-date and relevant subject known as The Present, the study of which will consist of the continuous monitoring of Twitter feeds.

• Pupils found to have plagiarised essays from the web will be awarded bonus marks for having demonstrated technological expertise.

• Finally, teachers should not inhibit pupils’ creativity by insisting that they follow arbitrary and obsolescent rules; for example, punctuation, spelling, homework deadlines or the law.

IDIOT SOURCE

PS:  Not that it has anything to do with the subject here.  A young man in college and a brain for sure has won a contest with his team of other very bright scholars. He really is smart and he is head of his science fiction club at school.  You might say he is their ‘chairman’ unless you’re very pc in which case the word used these ridiculous days is, ‘chairperson.’ Pretty stupid huh?  Well BMEWS, here’s another I could not make it up.
The young fellow in question is referred to in the press as, ‘CHAIRBEING.’

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