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I am a headteacher at a school in the UK. In my school, the children know their place. In my school, it is up to the teachers to tell a student if they have done some good work or not. It is up to the teacher to tell a student how they can get better. This is because children aren't able to reflect on their learning - their job is to simply listen and learn.

Wednesday, 6 November 2013

Another teacher who knows NOTHING.

It seems like we have another teacher who thinks that they know more than me. Read this email I received from Mr Dan at Patana School.




What a foolish man he is, and clearly a terrible teacher - he even got his class to send me a power point that proved exactly what I was trying to say. Children can't do this sort of thing. Mr Dan, I have some questions for you (I have updated this to give some more questions that you can answer but your children DEFINITELY can't).
  • What do children actually learn by reflecting on their work? Can you explain HOW using pretty highlighter pens will get the children to find out more about explanation texts?
  • Can you rate which is better - asking children to review and reflect on their learning, or a teacher doing it for them? Are they both important, or one more than the other? Why?
  • If children do all of the reviewing, then what is the job of a teacher? Should you even have a teacher?
  • SHOW ME THE EVIDENCE - there were NO examples of how the children were improving their work, NO examples of what the students were talking about, and NO feedback from students about why they thought that it was important for them to review their learning.
IF you can tell me answers to these questions and provide some evidence, then MAYBE I'll change my mind (but I know that you won't be able to).
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