EACH week, ECHO Education champions a student making waves inside and outside school.
Melodie
Tag: school councils uk
A RAYLEIGH school’s letter of objection to a supermarket’s plan to sell alcohol 24-hours was returned – because it was deemed inappropriate.
Melodie
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Diana Award winner
Idil Mohammed is a Diana Award winner, who juggles being a carer, going to school, and on the school council.
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,
Something we need to track? Details are here, and there is also the FutureLab conference with a useful list of contacts
mj