Sunday, December 11, 2011

Sense of urgency


Children and youth are already doing what we need to do in schools outside of school so the kind of change I am writing about won’t be unfamiliar to them. Getting teachers to buy in is tricky, but we know a ton about teacher education and development that we have not tried systematically. The same goes for reform and what we know about how to make it work. Sometimes I feel like I want to show pictures of kids in schools now that are like the ones for the ASPCA and have sappy music going on so that people will get the idea that there is real damage going on and we have to do something about it now.

1 comment:

cj said...

A good colleague of mine once wrote: Key to reforming education? Limit the input from ex-teachers (i.e., bypass the lines re ‘but you can’t do that, you can’t claim that on the basis of no experience in the classroom’ – like getting 1980s bank tellers to design and roll out ATMs).