According to Alvin Toffler: The illiterate of the 21st century is not someone who cannot read or write, but someone who cannot learn, un-learn or relearn.I have to confess that I come from a mostly talk and chalk background which I sometimes sweetened to provide an image of learner-centered learning and had to do a lot of de-learning and relearning myself and is still learning.
Most of my de-learning took place the last 10 years resulted in my 2012 book: The DNA of Great Teachers. This is however not the end of my learning.
The worst a country can do to increase the quality of teaching is to change the curriculum. I think in education we are busy with the 3rd curriculum, still leading us nowhere in terms of quality.
The same happened when the NQF was introduced. Every Dick, Tom and Mary ran to SETA created provider opportunities and started giving themselves out as facilitators, material developers, etc.
The solution would be to invest in teaching competencies. Great Teachers can make any curriculum work!The most sophisticated curriculum will certainly fail because of incompetent teachers.
“I have a dream that all teachers are great teachers empowering learners to become great learners.”
If I receive sufficient ‘comments’ and ‘likes’ on this post, it will ensure me there is sufficient 21st century literate members in the teaching fraternity interested in contributing to help saving our education and training system.
I will then I will share some of my great teaching arguments, insight and snippets in future, aimed at initiating debate and learning, from which all, including myself will benefit. I am confident that there will be other contributors as well.
So, if you want this to continue, ‘comment’ or ‘like’. I you do not want to have it continues, just view and leave.I intend to start with the relationship between a curriculum or for that matter a unit standard and development of learning material first.(by )
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