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Beth
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who hates school reform?
August 27, 2006 - 03:20 PM
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I see so many of us expressing student involvement in the creation of our education, looking for more active learning, better environments, and different assessment in schools, but we only see limited change. It is a slow process to improve schools. Can we make more people understand us?
Who are those people who don't want change in our education system? The people who think that the traditional way of educating is the best way? Are there people out there who still think a teacher lecturing in front a classroom of students with pencils and notebooks in hand is the best way of learning? Where do we find these people?
I've been trying hard to find how to define these people. How do they think? What do they love? Why are notes and tests the always best way to learn in their heads? There must be people out there keeping our schools from radically changing to better the education system.
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Re: who hates school reform?
August 28, 2006 - 11:17 AM
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hi Eakboo,
i think these people don't like the change itself and not the new ways of learning. i noticed that some people tend to not think of changing things around them, i don't know maybe they get satisfied easily. they want things to stay the same, maybe because it's easier this way as changing may need lots of work.
i once heard this story about some schools in jordan, the teachers had courses and training for new teaching methods but the principals weren't involved in these courses so when the teachers tried to employ what they've learned the principals opposed the change. so i guess not being informed about the change that will happen also makes people oppose it because i think no one wants to change to a state that s/he knows little about.
take care.
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Re: who hates school reform?
August 28, 2006 - 08:35 PM
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It is a slow process to improve schools, as people can be reluctant to implement change because if the change doesnt 'work' then it will be blamed on them. Maybe "these people" love tests ?? 
Also i think that most oldschool teachers/principals do not want radical change because what they have known works for alot of students, the teacher/principals role is seen to be to push kids thru the system with limited funding and poor attitudes from a majority of students.
Don't take too much away from notes and tests, sure there could be better ways, but this MIGHT be the easiest way to be fair to all students. I would rather have more practical learning that is more self-directed, but i think along with trying to change the environment of school, there needs to be a change in the attitudes of kids to school. But as long as school is as it is now, kids will not enjoy themselves.
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Talaya White
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Re: who hates school reform?
September 26, 2006 - 03:51 AM
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I think it is that so much emphasis is put on being digital. Not digitally literate, but digitally thinking. Too much emphasis in systematic learning, so when something goes wrong it's blamed on the person because the system is supposed to be perfect. Donald Norman briefly discussed this (The Invisible Computer), but his book was on marketing and didn't go very far into it.
There is too much emphasis on being like digital machines, while the machines should be the tool, the medium for human creativity and ideas. We are not machines, or empty containers, or malfunctioning harddrives, and we shouldn't be treated as such.
But people are taught, told over and over, that system is the ultimate hieght of intelligence, and who are we to change it? It is perfect by design, we're told. If we can't fit to it, then there is something wrong with us, but not with the system.
People are afraid of changing what they've been told is perfect and not to be changed.
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