In the UK 40% of teachers leave teaching within five years of becoming qualified.
Sir Michael Wilshaw, the Chief Inspector of Schools, says the main reason why teachers quit is the lack of discipline in the classroom.
40 PER CENT OF TEACHERS QUIT WITHIN FIVE YEARS
One teacher gives a reason: "It’s just a lack of respect.
"Teachers in schools do not call the shots. They have very little say."
Those that remain in teaching are not necessarily good teachers.
1,000 teachers accused of having sexual relationships with pupils in last five years
Pew Research Centre
The 'culture' in the USA and UK is sick.
Nick Clegg accused of 'cover up' and 'cowardice' as Lord Rennard is cleared
In 2012, the UK's Telegraph reported:
"Pupils are being allowed to run wild with a 'total disregard of school rules' because of a lack of proper discipline in the home, it was claimed.
"The Association of Teachers and Lecturers warned that a quarter of members had been physically attacked at school in the last 12 months, with staff being pushed, scratched, punched, bitten, kicked and spat at.
A third had been forced to deal
with violence directed at them or other pupils."Half of teachers said behaviour - particularly low-level disruption - had worsened in the last two years.
Bad behaviour in schools 'fuelled by over-indulgent parents
Essentially, schools in the UK and USA are like special sorts of zoos where the lions are not separated from the lambs.
And the government officials who are ultimately responsible for these zoos are corrupt fools.
According to The Economist: "People who don't get on ... have the option of avoiding each other."
Behaviour | The Economist
This is not true for most children when they are at school.
The typical school is like a weird sort of zoo - where all the animals are placed together in the one large cage.
According to The Economist: "It is probably not a good idea to put two animals with high dominance scores in the same enclosure."
Behaviour | The Economist
Prince Charles at Gordonstoun
Similarly, it is not a good idea put someone like Prince Charles into a school like Gordonstoun.
"A prison sentence," was how Charles described Gordonstoun. "Colditz with kilts."
"Like penal servitude," agreed William Boyd, a Gordonstoun contemporary of Charles. "I happen to know, from his own lips, that Prince Charles utterly detested it."
http://www.dailymail.
Ideally, children have a choice of schools and education styles.
My town used to have several small schools.
Now, sadly, there is only one giant school.
Michael Gove played the school chaplain in the 1995 film A Feast at Midnight.[11]
Governments should not dictate how schools are to be run.
In the UK, the government minister in charge of education is Michael Gove.
Gove is making a mess of education.
Gove wants more rote learning of facts.
New curriculum swings back to an out of date teaching style - FT
It is surely silly to have kids memorising huge quantities of dates and facts and figures, when such information is now available online.
Neil Carberry, director of employment and skills at the Confederation of British Industry, says that Gove's emphasis on rote learning might not be the best way to prepare pupils for employment.
According to Stephen Heppell, an education adviser to governments around the world:
"Schools should prepare pupils to interpret data and understand uncertainties.
"We need kids that can make things and do things, and that won't happen by giving them a heap of facts."
New curriculum swings back to an out of date teaching style - FT
Similarly, it is not a good idea put someone like Prince Charles into a school like Gordonstoun.
"A prison sentence," was how Charles described Gordonstoun. "Colditz with kilts."
"Like penal servitude," agreed William Boyd, a Gordonstoun contemporary of Charles. "I happen to know, from his own lips, that Prince Charles utterly detested it."
http://www.dailymail.
Ideally, children have a choice of schools and education styles.
My town used to have several small schools.
Now, sadly, there is only one giant school.
Michael Gove played the school chaplain in the 1995 film A Feast at Midnight.[11]
Governments should not dictate how schools are to be run.
In the UK, the government minister in charge of education is Michael Gove.
Gove is making a mess of education.
Gove wants more rote learning of facts.
New curriculum swings back to an out of date teaching style - FT
It is surely silly to have kids memorising huge quantities of dates and facts and figures, when such information is now available online.
Neil Carberry, director of employment and skills at the Confederation of British Industry, says that Gove's emphasis on rote learning might not be the best way to prepare pupils for employment.
According to Stephen Heppell, an education adviser to governments around the world:
"We need kids that can make things and do things, and that won't happen by giving them a heap of facts."
New curriculum swings back to an out of date teaching style - FT
UK education minister, Michael Gove, living in the past.
The school system needs to become more flexible.
"There is no systematic use of the internet...
"Teachers still stand up in front of pupils and read out from their own lesson plans; kids still turn up to classrooms, sit behind desks and listen, taking notes.."
Schools are failing our children
The school system needs to become more flexible.
"There is no systematic use of the internet...
"Teachers still stand up in front of pupils and read out from their own lesson plans; kids still turn up to classrooms, sit behind desks and listen, taking notes.."
Schools are failing our children
In the UK, 19.8% of school pupils have special educational needs
(eg learning and behavioural difficulties)
The EU average is 4%
Photo by Bert Hardy
Why does one child succeed in life, and another one 'fail'?
In How Children Succeed, Paul Tough writes that what matters most is character skills.
These are skills such as self confidence, optimism, perseverance, curiosity, conscientiousness, and self-control.
In other words, emotional intelligence, as taught by good parents, good mentors and good private schools, is what matters.
Both rich children and poor children can lack emotional intelligence.
"Suniya Luthar, a psychologist at Columbia University found significant psychological problems at the high end of the income spectrum... These problems arise most often in those high-income homes where children feel simultaneously a great pressure to achieve and an emotional distance from their parents..."
'How Children Succeed' — Q&A with Paul Tough
Bill Brandt
"When this region is damaged - a common condition for children living amid the pressures of poverty - it is tougher to suppress unproductive instincts."
School reform: Stay focused | The Economist
But not always.
The silver-haired safety net
The EU average is 4%
Photo by Bert Hardy
Why does one child succeed in life, and another one 'fail'?
In How Children Succeed, Paul Tough writes that what matters most is character skills.
These are skills such as self confidence, optimism, perseverance, curiosity, conscientiousness, and self-control.
In other words, emotional intelligence, as taught by good parents, good mentors and good private schools, is what matters.
Both rich children and poor children can lack emotional intelligence.
"Suniya Luthar, a psychologist at Columbia University found significant psychological problems at the high end of the income spectrum... These problems arise most often in those high-income homes where children feel simultaneously a great pressure to achieve and an emotional distance from their parents..."
'How Children Succeed' — Q&A with Paul Tough
Bill Brandt
"Apparently medical reasons explain why children who grow up in abusive or dysfunctional environments generally find it harder to concentrate, sit still and rebound from disappointments.
"The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical for regulating thoughts and mediating behaviour.
School reform: Stay focused | The Economist
Website for this image...
Children who do not have good parents need good mentors and tutors, according to Paul Tough.
"Studies show that early nurturing from parents or caregivers helps combat the biochemical effects of stress.
"Studies show that early nurturing from parents or caregivers helps combat the biochemical effects of stress.
"And educators can push better habits and self control.
"The 'prefrontal cortex is more responsive to intervention than other parts of the brain,' writes Mr Tough.
"It stays malleable well into early adulthood.
"Character can be taught."
School reform: Stay focused | The Economist
The problem is - how does a child from a problem family find a good mentor?
The best mentors are often grandparents.
School reform: Stay focused | The Economist
The problem is - how does a child from a problem family find a good mentor?
The best mentors are often grandparents.
The silver-haired safety net
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