"How will this help me in the future?"
The classroom cynic can bite through all the prep. work, all the learning, all the ...
What has happened to the current generation?
I have sensed in recent years, in classroom observations, a loss of joy from Y.4 upwards.
Even recent graduates I talk with seem to have lost a spark.
I can only generalise of course, but I am concerned.
In the Arts we seek creativity and imagination in learning, only to be sidelined by assessments and ordering of understanding.
Surely MoE can avoid this unhealthy trap of mere game playing?
And yet MoE still remains a mystery to many. But for how long?
Some of my colleagues, particularly in Higher Education, still say Drama when they mean MoE and then continue to make the same mistake every time thinking it doesn't matter. It should matter.
