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How do you define success in a short term timescale to steer any adjustments though? If the goal is to educate children to become successful adults you have at
by throwaj2wxyz 5y ago
How do you define success in a short term timescale to steer any adjustments though? If the goal is to educate children to become successful adults you have at least a 15-20 year time horizon. By the time you know if the methodologies are working or not, it has probably changed 3 or 4 times and most of the teachers have moved on, maybe if you're lucky there's an institutional "agenda" for lack of a better term that hasn't moved too far off course. And that's assuming that no external forces change in the intervening years.
- em-bee 5y agoit's a slow process but examples of better schooling do exist. it takes research and the willingness to look beyond your local region. the problem has multiple aspects. funding is one, management another, actual teaching methodologies yet another. for all of those examples can be found. not everything is directly applicable and it takes some experimentation. but a part of the problem is also the definition of success. the goalpost on that keeps changing too. for adults to be successful the environment needs to be supportive too. aren't there studies that show that children from poor families are less successful despite good schooling? so if we want children to be successful we also need to eliminate poverty. these things go hand in hand. and i suspect that some attempts at better schooling fail because other aspects like this are not being addressed.
- rdtwo 5y agoI guess I definite success as going up in economic class or at least maintaining.