It is always interesting to read and reflect on what others
think. The eleven plus examination, or a similarly named entrance test, and the
drive to help poorer children into top schools, has been in a state of change
for many years. Thousands of teachers over the years have done their best for
their pupils. I have worked with over forty three thousand children during my
teaching career – but there is always the excitement of a child making progress
and parents willing their children forward.
But looking back won’t help many children writing the new
style selection tests this year. The `new style’ tests are, once again, as
cramming free as possible. Questions of numerical reasoning and comprehension are
supposed to give a wider range of children the choice of a grammar school
education.
Jeff Utecht, an American advocate of change, made the point
that we need to look forward in education.
All we can hope is that the new
style Eleven Plus tests give a wider selection of pupils a better chance in the
eleven plus. Time will tell even if we disregard the mantra of all driving instructors:
“Look, signal, manoeuvre.”
1 comment:
I found this blog by mistake, but comparing the change in tests to how we teach people to drive does have similarities.
After all, you check first, then tell people what you are doing, then do it.
I don't know that's always what happens as sometimes people tend to act first, then deal with the consequences...
RPL Driving - Essex
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