Last weeks lecure was held by Mike Day (cabinet member for Education in Swansea). The topic of this lecture was educational policy.
educational policy was described as 'guidelines for actions to achieve goals and objectives. Specific aims to be achieved and desired end results. It reflects on political opinions, traditions and values, and socio-economic objectives. It's over a long time scale and discusses fundamental choices'.
What is education for?
Create a workforce
Transmit values and beliefs
Keep people off the streets
Tool for social mobility
Produce 'rounded' individuals
Major questions
What should be the school compulsory age?
Should school be free?
Should it be selective?
SEN? Include in mainstream? Seperate?
Why is it needed?
Guides opertionl decisions and actions
Teacher in the classroom, what to do?
Guidelines or straight jacket?
Who should develop it?
Politicians - elected to represent people. They hold the 'purse strings' and are not subject experts.
Practicioners - Know how it works in practice, from a different perspective but unable to take the wider view.
Should be a meeting of minds (Between the two)
Where is it developed?
UK Level (Westminster) - Determines compulsory school age, teachers pay and conditions, responsbility of LEA's, parents and schools.
WAG - Welsh medium, foundation phase, schools, no SAT's or free tuition fees and pupil deprivation grant.
LEA - Organise and determine size and number of schools we have. Advice and guidnce to schools adn identifies where and how many children (of compulsory age) are missing education within their area
School and Governing body - Uniforms, start and school finish times, child protection, SEN equal opportunities, school improvement plans, personal and social education.
Where do regional groups fit in? - 4 introduced from this September. SWAMWAC, Focus on school improvement, standards, learner and wellbeing.
How is it developed?
Policy borrowing - searches internationl examples of unique, transferrable 'best practice'
Policy learning - development of tailored national policies rather than policies taken off the peg, they also learn from the countries history.
QEd Policy 2020
Raise standards of acievement and attainment
Quality of the learning environment
Make best use of human, physical and financial resources
Stakeholder engagement copeness and partnership
Coherance (Consistency with wider educational strategies and support of other council strategies)
Flexibility (Appropriate use of resources)
Objectivity (Use of robust assessment framework)
Cost effectiveness
Resourced
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Monday, 5 March 2012
WHAT IS ED end of feb
Graham Allen (Environmental Manager in Swansea Metropolitan University) took todays lecture and bassed it on Sustainable Education. Education is critical for promoting sustainable development. Agenda 21 (Clarifies and extends ability, encourages students to reflect, debate and form opinions
Coporate responsibility involves:
Coroporate strategy
Integration
Management
Performance and impact
Community
Environment
Market Place
Work Place
Digression: The benefits of growth involves:
Employment
Income increases
Decrease in poverty
Improves standards of living
Economic stability
Creativity
Innovation
GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
Causes:
War
Deforestation
Crime
Pollution
Not included:
Loss of natural resources
Caring work
Womens work
Employment
Sharing work hours
Higher working hours means less marginal benefit
Shorter working hours means more jobs and more leisure time.
Political Strategy
The public can be part of the transsition to sustainable society
Global down-turn is in part a result of avoiding the inevitable signs
Public need leadership to work towards sustinability
National Assembly has a duty to promote sustainable development in everything that it does
And the principles of embedding sustainable development as a central organising principle
Long termism
Integration
Involvement
5 themes of ESDGC (Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship):
1.Links between society, economy, environment and our lives
2.Rights for the present and future generations
3.Relationship between power, resources and human rights
4.Local and global implications
5.Actions individuals cn take in response to the implications
Welsh Government recommends that ESDGC continues to be delivered through:
Leadership
Learning nd teching
Practice within an HEI
Partnership and community working
Research
three components of sustainble development are:
environment
economic
social sustainability.
:)
Well that's everything, toodles!
Coporate responsibility involves:
Coroporate strategy
Integration
Management
Performance and impact
Community
Environment
Market Place
Work Place
Digression: The benefits of growth involves:
Employment
Income increases
Decrease in poverty
Improves standards of living
Economic stability
Creativity
Innovation
GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
Causes:
War
Deforestation
Crime
Pollution
Not included:
Loss of natural resources
Caring work
Womens work
Employment
Sharing work hours
Higher working hours means less marginal benefit
Shorter working hours means more jobs and more leisure time.
Political Strategy
The public can be part of the transsition to sustainable society
Global down-turn is in part a result of avoiding the inevitable signs
Public need leadership to work towards sustinability
National Assembly has a duty to promote sustainable development in everything that it does
And the principles of embedding sustainable development as a central organising principle
Long termism
Integration
Involvement
5 themes of ESDGC (Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship):
1.Links between society, economy, environment and our lives
2.Rights for the present and future generations
3.Relationship between power, resources and human rights
4.Local and global implications
5.Actions individuals cn take in response to the implications
Welsh Government recommends that ESDGC continues to be delivered through:
Leadership
Learning nd teching
Practice within an HEI
Partnership and community working
Research
three components of sustainble development are:
environment
economic
social sustainability.
:)
Well that's everything, toodles!
WHAT IS ED?
This weeks lecture was held by Olive Hopker, who is the Head of Planning and Development in Swansea Metropolitan University. The topic of the lecture was about Collaboration-V-Competition in education. Some of the aspects spoken about are as followed:
Ministerial statements
Employment and Governance Structure in Wales
Collabortion and Competition Issues
Regional Planning and the role of HEFCW (Higher Education Funding Council for Wales)
Benefits and limitations for HEI (Higher Education Institute)
She also gave us examples of government statements, mostly from Leighton Andrews,which was beneficial for Schools / Further Education Sector and Higher Education.
:)
Ministerial statements
Employment and Governance Structure in Wales
Collabortion and Competition Issues
Regional Planning and the role of HEFCW (Higher Education Funding Council for Wales)
Benefits and limitations for HEI (Higher Education Institute)
She also gave us examples of government statements, mostly from Leighton Andrews,which was beneficial for Schools / Further Education Sector and Higher Education.
:)
WHAT IS ED? Feb
Hey again, so this is our last seminar with Steve Gullick. Again in this seminar we looked at governers and governing bodys however we now focussed more on Wales. A large number of the governing body in Wales do not have the full number, and are short of community governors with a business background. Poorer areas or smaller schools in Wales normally lack governers. However those schools which do have governers all seem to be of a simular sterotype for example middle class, white, middle aged. This is a problem as there are not enough ethnic governers which could be down to racism, language barriers, confidence etc.
(Stuart Ranson'School Governors and Improvement in Wales')
All 22 LEA's must provide free training, however 14 of them said that only a few governors were trained. This was said to be down to a lot of the courses being cancelled due to a lack of interest and support.
Peter Earley (London Institute of Education) found that there were 4 types of governors which include:
The Supporters' club
The Partners
The Abdicators
The Adversaries
He aldo researched the types of governors, and the amount of each type in Wales.
:)
(Stuart Ranson'School Governors and Improvement in Wales')
All 22 LEA's must provide free training, however 14 of them said that only a few governors were trained. This was said to be down to a lot of the courses being cancelled due to a lack of interest and support.
Peter Earley (London Institute of Education) found that there were 4 types of governors which include:
The Supporters' club
The Partners
The Abdicators
The Adversaries
He aldo researched the types of governors, and the amount of each type in Wales.
:)
What is ed feb
Steve Gullick, talked about the health and safety aspect of being a governor. He also looked at diference between strategic and tactical planning. Strategic being the governors (more long term) and tactical being the school (more short term).' As a governor, you are obviously very concerned that health and safety matters are dealt with well at your school'. We were given a scenario which is as followed: the headteacher tells you that there is no structure to the way teachers prepare for overnight trips and visits for pupils. It is the governing bodys job to overcome this and solve it. To deal with this situation the governing body sets up a working party of 3 governors and 2 teachers to produce a checklist for teachers to go through before they take an overnight trip. Some of the things on the list include:
Meeting with parents before trip
Food & drink, spare clothes, money etc
List of pupils and staff, itinerary, risk assesment etc
First aid kits and a first aider
Contact details and medical details, medication etc
:) x
Meeting with parents before trip
Food & drink, spare clothes, money etc
List of pupils and staff, itinerary, risk assesment etc
First aid kits and a first aider
Contact details and medical details, medication etc
:) x
WHAT IS ED begining feb
We had another lecture with Steve Gullick this week and continued talking about governing bodys however we also looked at the contact between school governers and teaching staff. These include:
Presntations at governing body meetings
Link governors and their visits, e.g.: for SEN and for eah subject
Celebrations e..: school concerts and productions
Staff disciplinary committee meetings
Job interviews
Informal visits to schools
He also spoke about the process of the staff disciplinary hearings, And the process of the headteacher sending out letters, the clerks role and also the four possible verdicts Which include
No charge whatsoever
1st written warning
Last warning
Dismissal -> Appeal?
Something I found interesting was that an inspector can stop olice, parents etc from entering thier school, however governors and inspectirs are free to visit whenever they want.
Once again I found this lecture interesting and felt I learnt a lot that I didnt already kinow. :)
Presntations at governing body meetings
Link governors and their visits, e.g.: for SEN and for eah subject
Celebrations e..: school concerts and productions
Staff disciplinary committee meetings
Job interviews
Informal visits to schools
He also spoke about the process of the staff disciplinary hearings, And the process of the headteacher sending out letters, the clerks role and also the four possible verdicts Which include
No charge whatsoever
1st written warning
Last warning
Dismissal -> Appeal?
Something I found interesting was that an inspector can stop olice, parents etc from entering thier school, however governors and inspectirs are free to visit whenever they want.
Once again I found this lecture interesting and felt I learnt a lot that I didnt already kinow. :)
WHAT IS ED Mon 30th Jan
Steve Gullick took the lecture this week, who is the director for All Wales Centre for Training and Reserch. The tobic for the lecture was the roles of the governing body. He discussed what they were, who who they, what roles they played in schools and the importance of. He also raised the question weather governors should be payed because the duties they hold are vital to the school and children. He also looked at who and what makes up the governing body from primary to secondary schools. Lastly we looked at the agenda of the meeting and where everybody sits and what role they play.
I learnt a lot from this lecture and now feel a lot more confident talking about it :) x
I learnt a lot from this lecture and now feel a lot more confident talking about it :) x
What is ED?
Hey guys, I know im a couple of weeks behind but ive now decided to talk about all of andys what is education lectures as they have been covered by numerous different people, all who which play an important role in education. Here goes :) .......
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