למידה, אינטרנט ... ומה שביניהם

We change the Course of Study about every ten years. But the truth is that ten years is too short a time to change classroom education. If we greatly changed the Course of Study every ten years, teachers would be turning their heads this way and that so often that their necks would break. So we make major changes in the Course of Study only every twenty years or so, and in between it's just fine tuning.

The changes made to these documents (about once a decade) are often brief, abstract descriptions of new goals: "autonomy," "initiative", "desire to learn" "problem-solving capacity". Although I initially found these vague goals - provided without accompanying concrete examples - frustrating, they may reflect an underlying assumption that policymakers cannot define good classroom practice.

תוויות: מורים, סטנדרטים