Two parter on National Standards from perspective of secondary teacher
Well worth reading,
Part One
Part Two
Including this quote:
So when the data says school X has lots of kids below the expected literacy level what happens next? This is what I would really like to
know, and this is what people should be asking Key and Tolley because
this is the bit that counts. I suspect that Key and Tolley won’t want
to hear that the school with the low results exists in an area where
there is more poverty, more illiterate parents, and a culture against
reading and writing, or even against school as an institution. To
combat these things a well-funded literacy programme is not really
enough, because the problems that I listed above are problems that are
outside the classroom and come into it.
Part One
Part Two
Including this quote:
So when the data says school X has lots of kids below the expected literacy level what happens next? This is what I would really like to
know, and this is what people should be asking Key and Tolley because
this is the bit that counts. I suspect that Key and Tolley won’t want
to hear that the school with the low results exists in an area where
there is more poverty, more illiterate parents, and a culture against
reading and writing, or even against school as an institution. To
combat these things a well-funded literacy programme is not really
enough, because the problems that I listed above are problems that are
outside the classroom and come into it.
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