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From http://duhas-blog.blogspot.com/ This may sound like an old theme, but I think the time is right to revisit it. Scottish education is in the grip of near terminal seriousness. I feel fearful saying that, because countless meetings with educators at all levels have taught me that there is a lot of mileage in taking the business [...] Margaret Alcorn from the CPD team pages. The Scottish education scene is at a real crossroads. HMIe is reinventing itself (allegedly) to reflect the needs of a profession being asked to innovate instead of conform. GTC Scotland is becoming more independent in the mould of the General Medical Council, and is potentially about to usher in [...] Picture from: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/aug/31/teaching.teachersworkload I am doing something very pleasant as I write this; I am listening to Andy Vass talking to Argyll’s newly qualified teachers about “sanity in the classroom”. He mentioned a recent study that indicated that teaching is the third most stressful profession after the emergency services and mining/deep sea diving. This prompted me [...]
Image from Jean Snyder under Creative Commons I have spent some time chatting with colleagues from Secondary schools this week. Anyone who regularly converses with a Secondary teacher, (and probably primary as well), will be unsurprised to hear that time is endlessly fingered as the enemy of developing practice. I [...] |
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