Senior Cycle Reform

PureClareGold

Anyone at Croke Park today for the launch of senior cycle reform? What would we be looking for from it?

doc_17

PureClareGold wrote: »

Anyone at Croke Park today for the launch of senior cycle reform? What would we be looking for from it?

You think they’d invite teachers to that sort of thing? I admire your faith in them!!

Nellieelephant

With the frace that is “outcome based assessment” in the new Junior Cycle weighing heavy I am not able to think/engage or worry about what is coming down the line for senior cycle

spurious

Handwriting classes.

mtoutlemonde

spurious wrote: »

Handwriting classes.

On a post-it!!!!

Mardy Bum

Wait for the over emphasis on STEAM (ing) pile of ****e.

Courses sponsored by the benevolent gods of information communication technology, Microsoft and Google.

Students will learn "skills". They don't need to know stuff anymore. Why waste time building foundational knowledge when all students from the age of 5 can think critically. Their critical thinking will allow them to adequately programme the latest society destroying app and also analyse a speech for scutter and waffle. They will learn this in the same class; Project based learning class - where learning goes to die.

Prof Ken Robinson will be cloned and left in every classroom. Students will then be allowed to be creative. Mary can paint her nails, Simon can drill a hole in the table, a middle of the road student can discover a cure for dementia just because he wants to. Ken will stand at the top of the room and wave his hands and make quips and tell anecdotal stories which students are expected to accept as hard evidence for any proposition. Briefly he will misinform the class about research in education and use it for his own gains. By the way, he will be sponsored by a multinational so don't worry about the cost.

I don't hold out hope for this review being any way good for the education system unless there is an actual acknowledgement of research rather than ideology and the sychophantic bowing to multinational corporations must stop.

amacca

Mardy Bum wrote: »

I don't hold out hope for this review being any way good for the education system unless there is an actual acknowledgement of research

agreed...rather than a complete and seemingly wilful misinterpretation of it by the "educationalists"

maynooth_rules

No doubt they will take an utter sledge hammer to it, like they did with the JC when only minor changes were needed

doc_17

If anyone wants to know what's coming down the line then just look at the systems in place for the counties they selected to "review".

spurious

Or look at whatever 'innovations' the British are dumping and we'll line up to introduce them as the next great thing.