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]]> By: admin http://www.insidelearning.net/?p=9&cpage=1#comment-3 admin Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:05:35 +0000 http://www.insidelearning.net/?p=9#comment-3 Like you I worry about our confidence to grasp this opportunity Fiona. However, we are becoming a little more confident, even if it is two steps forward and one step back! I totally agree with everything you are saying here and wish that I had written some of it myself:-) Enjoy that well earned break and lets hope that you return from it a little less shy and withdrawn. See you soon Fiona Like you I worry about our confidence to grasp this opportunity Fiona. However, we are becoming a little more confident, even if it is two steps forward and one step back! I totally agree with everything you are saying here and wish that I had written some of it myself:-)

Enjoy that well earned break and lets hope that you return from it a little less shy and withdrawn.

See you soon Fiona

]]> By: Fiona Johnson http://www.insidelearning.net/?p=9&cpage=1#comment-2 Fiona Johnson Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:15:36 +0000 http://www.insidelearning.net/?p=9#comment-2 Matthew, some very interesting ideas here. Sounds like this guy knows what he's talking about. Personally I am worried that teachers will not grasp the opportunity to be brave, creative and child centred with the opportunities that ACfE brings. already at meetings with colleagues I listen to those who are fitting outcomes into boxes to ensure coverage and offering their work to others. I'm afraid (as I'm sure you'd guess) that I always speak up at this point and object to this 5-14isation of ACfE and try to explain the opportunity that we have before us. We are now able to talk to the children about what they want to learn, to be led by their interests and to create meaningful contexts in which they can learn. We can be flexible now when children get excited about their learning and 'go with it' in a way that wasn't possible before. We are now free to take risks, throw away the textbooks and really make learning fun. Haven't we been told for ages that if children are having fun the are better learners? We must keep asking the children to evaluate the learning and teaching process - they are our customers and we must listen to them. If they tell us that our delivery / resources / classroom management are not up to scratch then we must listen and respond. I also agree (wel I would!) that everybody involved in the education business should get down into the classroom and teach on a regular basis. Although many aspects of being a teaching head teacher are difficult to balance, the great value of this unique management position is that we have to do what we ask others to AND we have to be seen to be doing it well. There is no doubt that if schools are going to improve and march forward in their journey to excellence then a HT who is leading by exampke is a powerful force for change within a school. Anyway, these are the ramblings of a teaching HT who has just finished for half term break...off to be a mum for 10 days!! Fiona Matthew,
some very interesting ideas here. Sounds like this guy knows what he’s talking about. Personally I am worried that teachers will not grasp the opportunity to be brave, creative and child centred with the opportunities that ACfE brings. already at meetings with colleagues I listen to those who are fitting outcomes into boxes to ensure coverage and offering their work to others.
I’m afraid (as I’m sure you’d guess) that I always speak up at this point and object to this 5-14isation of ACfE and try to explain the opportunity that we have before us. We are now able to talk to the children about what they want to learn, to be led by their interests and to create meaningful contexts in which they can learn. We can be flexible now when children get excited about their learning and ‘go with it’ in a way that wasn’t possible before. We are now free to take risks, throw away the textbooks and really make learning fun. Haven’t we been told for ages that if children are having fun the are better learners?
We must keep asking the children to evaluate the learning and teaching process – they are our customers and we must listen to them. If they tell us that our delivery / resources / classroom management are not up to scratch then we must listen and respond.

I also agree (wel I would!) that everybody involved in the education business should get down into the classroom and teach on a regular basis. Although many aspects of being a teaching head teacher are difficult to balance, the great value of this unique management position is that we have to do what we ask others to AND we have to be seen to be doing it well. There is no doubt that if schools are going to improve and march forward in their journey to excellence then a HT who is leading by exampke is a powerful force for change within a school.
Anyway, these are the ramblings of a teaching HT who has just finished for half term break…off to be a mum for 10 days!!
Fiona

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