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Nov. 21st, 2010 05:35 pmPosting from my phone so this will be rather short; just pondering my problems with the way that children are taught from a young age. That some of my year 7s, at the age of eleven, have already decided which subjects are worth bothering with is distressing. If they are pushed into certain tasks too early it can shape their lives to fit not particularly well.
My solution? I don't have one. I will, though, offer the opinion that primary schools should be following a different curriculum. Something more along the lines of:
Literacy
Numeracy
Thinking skills
Discussion/team work
Logic
Creativity
They should be taught how to learn and how to question what they learn. And then, frankly, I'd like secondary school to allow far more flexibility in what they're allowed to investigate - allow them to investigate far more in itself! - but that's probably another rant for another time. Oh, and another rant I need to remind myself to expand on is the way that 'personalised curriculum' seems increasingly to mean 'placing kids in boxes'...
My solution? I don't have one. I will, though, offer the opinion that primary schools should be following a different curriculum. Something more along the lines of:
Literacy
Numeracy
Thinking skills
Discussion/team work
Logic
Creativity
They should be taught how to learn and how to question what they learn. And then, frankly, I'd like secondary school to allow far more flexibility in what they're allowed to investigate - allow them to investigate far more in itself! - but that's probably another rant for another time. Oh, and another rant I need to remind myself to expand on is the way that 'personalised curriculum' seems increasingly to mean 'placing kids in boxes'...
