Sunday Blog #2

I have chosen blogging over Big Brother...I've changed.
Reading Idiom article by Jon Williams (Glen Waverley SC) and didn't want these thoughts going to waste.
These are the things I liked/connected with in his article:
1. ..."within a system that is not set up to encourage rich, confrontational and diverse dialogue, rather it is there to perpetuate the status quo." p.65
2. ..."about practical approaches to the classroom that have allowed me to survive and flourish in a system that is coercive, undemocratic, patriarchal, elitist and culturally biased towards the male Anglo-Australian experience." p.65
3. "I have also gained immensely from education theory. I believe it is so important for classroom teachers to continue to read and reflect upon their experience based within the context of the study of theory." p. 66
4. "I sit in staff meetings (why they are called 'meetings' I will never know, a better name would be 'show and tell time for the administration whilst we all sit there with our mouths and minds metaphorically taped shut!- don't rock the boat and don't interrupt with confronting ideas- and look at teachers who look disengaged, uninspired and just plain tired." p.66
5. Several references to poverty and its impact on education and the unbreakable cycle this creates.

Points 5 and 6 I can directly relate to my experience in school and though I have some ideas on how to prevent this, there are many teachers who would rather not have to change...Ever.
So I sit and wait...and post my profile on Independent Schools.com (just in case)

Bye for now,
M x