23-11-2010, 05:09 PM
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Re: Yey! Spelling and Grammar are going to be taught again.
Originally Posted by maryl
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Thank goodness for that! Some months ago my seven year old grandaughter learnt about the fire of London in school and asked me what it was like!
She should have asked me, I could have told her 
(Well it feels like it sometimes)
23-11-2010, 05:38 PM
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Re: Yey! Spelling and Grammar are going to be taught again.
Originally Posted by maryl
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I still recite the 'times table' in my head to reach an answer. Wouldn't that be lovely to pass a classroom one day and overhear the children chanting out their tables.
24-11-2010, 12:39 PM
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Re: Yey! Spelling and Grammar are going to be taught again.
I think the whole education system needs a thorough overhaul. My daughter is at University at the moment, and often asks me to check her essays for grammatical/spelling mistakes before she submits them. Her spelling and grammar are not too bad, but what strikes me every time is that her degree-level essays are nowhere near the standard of an "A" Level essay 45 years ago (when I did my "A" Levels).I spent the last decade of my working life as a Training and Development Officer, and part of my brief was to mentor unqualified staff through their university courses. I was always appalled at the standard of spelling and grammar I found, but much more so by the fact that their education up until that point had not equipped them to carry out basic critical analysis. They were totally unable to gather and sift evidence, evaluate ideas/theories on the basis of that evidence and form a conclusion.
It seems to me that critical analysis is (or should be) the very basis of education.
Without it, all we are doing is regurgitating the "facts" presented by the curriculum - that is schooling, not education!
Mick
24-11-2010, 03:12 PM
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Re: Yey! Spelling and Grammar are going to be taught again.
Originally Posted by MickB
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I think the whole education system needs a thorough overhaul. My daughter is at University at the moment, and often asks me to check her essays for grammatical/spelling mistakes before she submits them. Her spelling and grammar are not too bad, but what strikes me every time is that her degree-level essays are nowhere near the standard of an "A" Level essay 45 years ago (when I did my "A" Levels). I spent the last decade of my working life as a Training and Development Officer, and part of my brief was to mentor unqualified staff through their university courses. I was always appalled at the standard of spelling and grammar I found, but much more so by the fact that their education up until that point had not equipped them to carry out basic critical analysis. They were totally unable to gather and sift evidence, evaluate ideas/theories on the basis of that evidence and form a conclusion.
It seems to me that critical analysis is (or should be) the very basis of education.
Without it, all we are doing is regurgitating the "facts" presented by the curriculum - that is schooling, not education!
Mick
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