There have been two recent articles in local papers about my book How Was Your Day at School? It’s always interesting to hear other takes on your own work.
Here they are. Enjoy.
There have been two recent articles in local papers about my book How Was Your Day at School? It’s always interesting to hear other takes on your own work.
Here they are. Enjoy.
Just finished reading Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. He makes many points that don’t square with our current thinking about what would make schools better. Points that do seem congruent are that feelings of success, fullfillment and satisfaction are tied to three qualities: sense of autonomy, complexity and a connection between effort and reward. In other words work must be meaningful.
Gladwell makes some intriguing points about the effects on learning of long summer vacations (low SES students make as many gains in achievement during a school year as high SES students, but lose a lot during the summer and that has the cumulative effect of creating over time an achievement gap). Gladwell also posits that “reducing class size, rewriting curricula, buying every student a shiny new laptop, and increasing school funding—all assume that there is something fundamentall wrong with the job schools are doing”…Schools work. The only problem wih school, for kids who aren’t achieving, is that there isn’t enough of it.” pg 259. He goes on to compare school day in South Korea (220 days/yr), Japan (243 days/yr) and U.S. (180 days/yr). (pg 260)
What light (or shadow) does this book shed on teacher satisfaction questions, especially as they relate to student success?
First day of school of any always been interesting, i was light light remember first day of school, it was mixed feeling.
Wow…this was a really good article. interesting…., thanks for sharing the info, keep up the good work going….
Its so cool, so full of information that I just didnt know.
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