Dec 10
Right proper bunch of Charlies!!
No wonder today’s children are uneducated; the “education factories” are being operated by untrained “teachers”, working with inferior materials, trying to produce a good product. That, people, will never happen. To top it off, Ofsted appears to be suffering from the same problem, itself, so it’s little wonder that the whole system is such a failure. Read the following paragraphs and see if you can spot why it’s all gone off the trolley.
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“In a Year 6 [11-year-olds] geography lesson on the rain forest, pupils tasted foods, used a computer program, painted their faces and engaged in drumming – all of which interested them – but their progress in knowledge, skills and understanding of geography was minimal.”
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“Lessons which are unsatisfactory may look superficially satisfactory,” the report said. “Teachers may delude themselves that clearly structured lessons lead to good teaching.
“However, this superficial sense of order can belie the quality of the teaching. Tasks are often ill-matched to pupils’ needs, or involve worksheets from which pupils learn very little.”
In place of such “passive” learning, Ofsted called for more role play, “hot seating”, “oral interaction”, creativity, imaginative writing, collaboration in small groups and use of computers.
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Perhaps Ofsted could do with a few lessons in the fundamentals of education. Apparently Melanie came to the same conclusion.
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”... could do with a few lessons in the fundamentals…”
He can’t even tell the difference between his own fundament and elbow, lessons would do little good.