Bringing in parents to act as teaching assistants was a tactic my primary school (in a smallish farming village) used with great success, but it isn't currently allowed for secondary schools (ages 11 to 16, and often up to 18). Your idea of separating the roles of the person who knows what the kids need to learn from those who keep the class in order (with a rapid training/certification system for the latter) is certainly the direction we should be going.
Using social pressure to get the younger kids to want to learn is another stroke of genius. What were the results of the test program you were in? Why wasn't it widely adopted?
And I'm all for transparent accounting: Hackney borough (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Borough_of_Hackney) (where I am) is one of the most notoriously corrupt councils in the country.
Does the U.S. system have equivalents to PSE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_and_Social_Education) (aka Politics, Sex and Everything else) and RE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Education) (religious education)? For the longest time I didn't understand the point of the Creationism-in-schools debate because I didn't realise that it was about wanting to teach that stuff as part of Science classes, instead of the humanities where I assumed it belonged.
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OK you really need to get a Philosophy of Education qualification ASAP, this stuff is excellent
Using social pressure to get the younger kids to want to learn is another stroke of genius. What were the results of the test program you were in? Why wasn't it widely adopted?
And I'm all for transparent accounting: Hackney borough (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Borough_of_Hackney) (where I am) is one of the most notoriously corrupt councils in the country.
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Does the U.S. system have equivalents to PSE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_and_Social_Education) (aka Politics, Sex and Everything else) and RE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Education) (religious education)? For the longest time I didn't understand the point of the Creationism-in-schools debate because I didn't realise that it was about wanting to teach that stuff as part of Science classes, instead of the humanities where I assumed it belonged.