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Author: Phurster
Date: 2006-05-06 07:15
I am interested in how Clarinet teachers in other parts of the world cope with Educational bureaucracy.
Here in Aus with each change in government we have to learn a new language. I call this language edu-speak.
Lessons are meant to revolve around “outcomes”, these outcomes are judged by “indicators”. I am not a Clarinet teacher but a “life-long learner”. I don’t work in a school but in a “learning community”. Subjects are separated into “Domains, strands and sub strands. We are following Blueprint flagship strategy No5 (or whatever).
Do Clarinet teachers in other countries have to endure this much bureaucracy.
Chris.
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2006-05-06 15:28
Ouch,
I've just crossed OZ off of the short list of places I'm likely to go after the next presidential election.
Learning is a change in behavior, so I suppose that there is some "logic" in such terminology. Duck, such obfuscation can not be good.
Here in the US, the application of terms like "every child left behind" have failed to improve our schools. What works is getting the student motivated. A second level of import is in providing that enthusiasm with good guidance --show him/er the library.
Bob Phillips
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2006-05-06 15:44
Phurster wrote:
> Here in Aus with each change in government we have to learn a
> new language. I call this language edu-speak.
In business (I'm involved in the auto industry) we learn a new language everytime there's a new "strategic plan" (interesting how "strategic" seems to mean about 18 months nowadays). Just about the same words, too.
See http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html for some great ideas.
Mark "Way Forward" Charette
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Author: Phurster
Date: 2006-05-07 01:42
I feel comfort that someone else endures my pain.
I thought about developing a software program for reports similar to the web-bullshit generator. The operator would type in the truth and this would be translated to report edu-speak.
eg... "Jack has done zero practice and has a tone like bovine farting"
this would be translated too
"To make further progress Jack should instigate a regular and structured practice routine. Ideally this would include a proportion of exercises on tonal development."
I will now go back to instigating best practice for the facilitation of a five-year plan incorporating high level communication and learning strategies vis a vie the CSF volume 2 and VELS as well as Flagship strategy 2 from Blueprint in order for students to consolidate the axiom that Bb major is played with an Eb.
Chris "there have been concerns..." Ondaatje.
Author of the best sellers
"Practice your @#$%^&*( Scale !"
and " Working with difficult morons"
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Author: stevensfo
Date: 2006-05-07 20:46
Having kids that have gone to schools in 3 countries and having taught English (as a volunteer) in France and Britain (English Literacy), I can really identify with this.
The department heads are so politically charged that 'common sense' does not get a look in. Well, it does, but only when he/she isn't around.
Awareness of sexism and rascism were top of the list. Didn't matter if there was none. These buzzwords kept those people employed and promoted.
We were allowed to help with writing, but had to tread very carefully with speech. Regional accents were in vogue and had to be respected.
Thus, we could help students with their cv, vocabulary, grammar etc but not help with their diction. I dread to think how many got interviews because of their cvs, only to blow it because nobody could understand what they were saying!
To any teachers I'd say only to read those books written over 20 years ago. All the new ones are full of PC fashionable material written by people thinking more about their career than any genuine desire to help those they're meant to be helping!
Steve
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2006-05-08 11:26
It's becuase of the publishers...
You need a book that either weighs 4 pounds or can be read in an hour to get onto the bestseller list. At least Fulghum doesn't sell himself as a consultant...
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Author: diz
Date: 2006-05-09 01:20
Phurster ... you made me laugh out loud, and be eternally grateful that I don't work for ANY Australian education provider (heaven help me).
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2006-05-09 09:25
Sounds like they've taken a chapter out of 1984 and Newspeak. We have the same problem here in the UK, but it's not as bad as that though.
Peter Cigleris
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2006-05-09 10:43
All those terms are very familiar to my sister teaching here in NZ, but they were not used when I was teaching 25 years ago, when teachers were complaining about a totally different set of new terms.
Sometimes so-called progress consists of going around in circles, with a rehash of categorisation and renaming of concepts.
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Author: beejay
Date: 2006-05-09 14:27
Gaius Petronius, in AD 66, said:
We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form in to teams we would be re-organized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, whilst producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.
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