I have a Google Alert for the string “NSLU2″. Just now, I had a new alert, and my NSLU2 category has just made it into the top 20…
Yay!
Monday, November 21st, 2005
Daily Archive
I usually try to refrain from commenting on what is happening at my work, but I really need to get this off my chest.
The school I work for is currently going through an accreditation process, known as CIASa. Now, I have nothing against the noble ideals of meeting some international standards, but I think that either this system, or how we have interpreted it, has totally missed the point.
I have, for example, just spent the last hour printing out edits to documents. Now, these edits are things as simple as adding a full stop to one sentence. And I have had to print out the whole page again. I have a personal objection to this purely on environmental grounds.
And it gets worse. Within my faculty, there are four staff, who by and large all teach the same material at Year 8 and 9. Our course outlines are the same, and apart from rare cases of ‘interesting’ classes, the cohort is pretty much standard. We have built into the course the ability for students with aptitude and ability to extend themselves, and for students with various difficulties to do simpler or less work.
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