Tuesday 2 June 2009

Starting a Masters!

It seems like a strange thing to do, because I already have a masters in Politics but having been a qualified teacher for 3 years now and having worked in education previously, I have become increasingly interested in the way the education sector works! Schools resist change (probably with good reason since many teachers had some many changes restricting their freedom forced on them during the Thatcher days and then even more from Labour, giving some schools freedom back, when they didn't seem to know what to do with it!) and many teachers seem to fight against the tide of technology viewing it as simply yet another thing to learn, yet many of us can see such amazing potential to really personalise learning for pupils, re-enthuse the unengaged and help pupils to see that learning really is fun again!

I'm looking forward to learning more myself, and hopefully understanding how to gently encourage the changes I (and many other teachers who think like me) want to make, whilst not feeling like a chore for uninspired and disengaged teachers! Yikes! No small task then!

1 comment:

  1. "yet many of us can see such amazing potential to really personalise learning for pupils, re-enthuse the unengaged and help pupils to see that learning really is fun again!"

    Me too!

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