| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Elephant in the Room - Toby Young's School idea | |
| Posted by: | Colin Carroll | |
| Date/Time: | 03/09/09 12:03:00 |
| "So how would you sort AHS, Colin, starting from here? From the coalface, what works? And have you ever managed to do it?" Discipline! Not corporal punishment but sanctions. It works in my micro environment. I do not accept bad behaviour in my classes and I am allowed to remove unruly elements. It allows me to do what I am paid to do, teach. I know that at AHS a number of years ago a senior teaching member had a draft proposal for improving behaviour based on methods used at a perviously unruly school, however I do not think it was ever implemented. Why are Private schools better at educating their students?Mainly because teachers can focus on delivering their lessons. If you get an unruly student in the private sector, by and large they are shown the door. I have seen students who have been permanantly excluded for serious offences such as assaulting other pupils or acts of vandalism return a few weeks later because they won their appeal.Their appeal barristers have to paid for by the school, complete madness. It sends out the wrong message. Like I said I am not an educationalist and I can not start to understand the political machinations that exist within educational establishments but what I do know is that you have to have discipline and order in the classroom in order to deliver a lesson. It works for me and I would love to see it work on a larger scale i.e. across the entire school(s). |