I just came across this:
It’s another really good site from mySociety.org
It could be a site we suggest pupils use – or if we don’t want to suggest a site, it’s something that a school couls easily create an ‘off-line’ version of on a noteboard.
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EACH week, ECHO Education champions a student making waves inside and outside school.
Melodie
HT of secondary school in Suffolk: Here extract: “…… It is not that any of us has anything against pupil voice, just as it is hard to argue against fitness or fresh air: both are good things which we like very much. We just don’t need laws telling us when to exercise or how to breathe. Most of us, after all, have school councils that have moved beyond the traditional areas of regularly demanding the abandonment of school uniform and complaining about the toilets….
………. Similarly, the best use of our school council’s time may not be telling us what they think of our health and safety or equal opportunities policies. It might be that we should be challenging them to come up with new ideas for helping the community, or new approaches to teaching and learning.”
interesting perspective, maybe we should respond…
mj
This from the Washington Post about 21st Century teaching..
from mj
By Jay Mathews
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 21, 2008; 6:17 AM
Only six weeks have passed since my last cranky diatribe about teaching what are called “21st-century skills” in our schools. I think the 21st-century skills movement is mostly a pipe dream, promoted by well-meaning people who embrace the idea of modernity but fail to consider how these allegedly new and important lessons can be taught by the usual victims of such schemes, classroom teachers.
Now I am forced to calm down,
I know I don’t know enough about what’s going on in education in Northern Ireland, so when Hamilton House sent this around I thought it could be really useful. I suggest we all have a look.
The current structure of education policy and decision making and how it will change under the reforms
The establishment of the new Education and Skills Authority in April 2009
Current situation – finances
Asher
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Camden Schools
Local schools are mapped here
(Not sure if this is the best format, but you can click on a flag to see which school it is, and click on a name to see where it is):
MJ