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De plus en plus dans le monde entier, on se dirige vers des écoles autonomes, on veut rendre les professeurs et les gestionnaires imputables.

Voici un extrait de Michael Gove secrétaire de l’éducation du Royaume-Uni, les États-Unis vont dans la même direction, vers le modèle suédois.

Pourquoi, parce que c’est la méthode la plus rapide de faire des changements dans le monde d’éducation en fait c’est de ‘by-passé’ les syndicats qui refusent les changements, les professeurs vont être jugé en fonction de leur compétence pas en fonction de leur ancienneté.

Par contre, on élimine toute bureaucratie, ils sont les seuls maîtres à bord et vont être jugés en fonction des résultats scolaires, et tous les professeurs qui sont de haut niveau serviront à améliorer les autres professeurs.

En fait, l’école est dirigée comme une petite PME, mais avec des fonds publics.

Le White Paper de la réforme de l’éducation du Royaume-Uni se dirige dans ce sens.

Michael Gove sets out plans in White Paper

Something extraordinary is happening in education. Plans, announced in a white paper being billed by the coalition as decentralising, actually introduce a mechanism that breaks new ground in the power it hands to the secretary of state.

Michael Gove has pledged to take tough action to intervene in cases where schools – both primary and secondary – are deemed to be underperforming.

·         Getting the right people to become teachers

·         Developing these teachers into effective instructors

·         Ensuring the ‘system’ is able to deliver the best possible instruction for every child

It would be fair to say that the whitepaper is very much focused around these objectives.

The most welcome aspect of this whitepaper is the emphasis it places on supporting teachers to improve educational outcomes. We have long believed that teachers are the most important part of the education system.

This is the provocative question we ask...

“Would you prefer children to be educated in a brand new state of the art BSF
School by an adequate teacher, or a 1960’s classroom with only a chalkboard
and an extraordinary teacher?”

White Paper of England

The development of teaching schools is definitely a step in the right direction. It is only through firsthand experience of teaching that trainees can fuse theory and practice, but if this embedded model is going to work, we believe lesson observation, collaboration and easy communication within a network of schools has to be at the core of this new system. For this model to be truly scalable we believe it needs to be technology enabled.

For both initial teacher training (ITT) and CPD to work effectively we believe lesson observation, collaboration and easy communication within a network of schools has to be at the core of this new system.

Source : Education White Paper 2010, Iris, 24 November 2010

The most welcome aspect of this whitepaper is the emphasis it places on supporting teachers to improve educational outcomes. We have long believed that teachers are the most important part of the education system. 

This has been further supported by enabling the factors known to have an impact on teacher learning namely their access to lesson observations and interschool sharing of expertise.

“We know that teachers learn best from other professionals and that an “open” classroom culture is vital” Quote from Pg 19 2.4

The most critical aspect we believe is the establishment of Teaching Schools in-line with the Medical School Model of Teaching Hospitals; crucially these schools will support both Initial Teacher Education and Professional Development of In-Service teachers. We believe that this is also a positive step, as research clearly shows a link between the contextualisation of learning and the extent to which you can implement new techniques in the future.

For both initial teacher training (ITT) and CPD to work effectively we believe lesson observation, collaboration and easy communication within a network of schools has to be at the core of this new system.

We have built IRIS connect to support this very model. We can implement this model today.

Our unique cloud-based community of practice and mobile lesson observation technology allows a cluster of schools to share their securely annotated observation videos, this means:

ü  Trainee teachers benefit from a range of observational opportunities from a range of teachers in a variety of schools.

ü  Tutors can support their trainees directly when either at a placement school or through observational feedback within the teaching school. Supported in real-time by in-ear coaching!

ü  Schools within the partnership can receive mentoring and coaching support from the teaching school and from the long tail of skills within the broader network.

ü  Clusters of schools can build up a bank of best practice videos – annotated for easy reference

Prochain carnet: vous avez plus de détails sur le White Paper du Royaume-Uni

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