Russell urges heads to back curriculum changes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/8641869.stm
25th April 2010, BBC News Website
Mike Russell, secretary of Education for the Scottish National Party (SNP), wishes to use the Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) as the base for Scottish secondary education across coming August. This curriculum will give teachers more freedom with less prescriptions in their way of teaching. Mr Russel thinks that head teachers are at the heart of any successful school and inspirational for teachers and parents. To implement the new curriculum he would like to be supported by them. Secondary teachers support this revision in education but are also angry and concerned because the government ignore their opinions. Survey shows that teachers want more preparation and clarification about the CfE before teaching according to it.
The new CfE is controversial. Unions dislike it and teachers criticise it. It appears to be a good curriculum but the unions and teachers fear trouble with the implementation of it. They also think that the workload will increase. Mr Russell made a good decision by contacting the head teachers as a way to maintain the new curriculum. I think that the secondary teachers should be better informed and have more resources in order to achieve an effective new curriculum. Mr Russell likes the idea of more freedom for the teachers though the teachers should not be abandoned by the government.
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Changes in the educational area are always delicate and difficult to proceed with. There are the bureaucrats of the Ministery who seek for innovations but stand far away from the class itself. On the other side there are the teachers. They experience these innovations daily without having real power to decline or accept these changes.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenIt's a good idea that a Minister asks for feedback from Headmasters; after all, they are the missing link between those in the field and those behind a desk.
The focus of the government to suggest ideas for better education is an important issue. It keeps the dicussion going how to improve education and make a better environment for teachers to work in. The role of the Headmaster is indeed the link between the teachers and the government to make sure that changes are possible and make a postive difference for the education of our children.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenI can imagine that teachers want to know what they are getting into. Most of the time the government decides something without thinking of the consequences for the teachers. So it is not such a bad idea that the teachers want to find out if their workload will increase before they adapt these new ideas.
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