cartoon: Dafi construction site formation
Never in the entire development of our education system has more reforms, more changes, more new features added at the same time, than today. Flying the flag all over the Pisa-hysteria reform will be ranked in reform, innovation introduced to innovation, no stone is left unturned. Innovations that were introduced not long ago with much fanfare to be already thrown back overboard. The hustle and bustle of the Game Boy-era has had a place at school. The example of the Swiss school system can demonstrate that the educational landscape in recent years a become true construction site is.
construction projects in recent years (region):
- test free transition to the next higher grade
- school qualification system
- reward effective teaching qualification
- early French
- early musical education
- new curricula
- teacher system at the primary school
- day schools
- senior projects
- parental involvement
- block times
- Language Portfolio
- immersion education
- Early English
- Conducted schools
- Integrative school type
- New education structures in the cantons
- basic level (instead of the kindergarten: wagon stage)
- Harmos (same educational standards for all regions)
- geometry
- set theory
- computer science
- early musical education
- Early English
- early French
- Intercultural Education
- this came many new subjects in the previous subjects
one hand, there was a huge expansion of the instructional material. But what was mined? purifies Where? The answer is simple: practically nothing! The result: More and more teachers complain that students can indeed a bit of everything, but nothing more really. Quantity instead of quality. The time-solid foundations for to create a future career, the most important learning goals, how to deepen as the mastery of the German language is, barely.
Excessive Meritocracy
Newest gag, this time produced by the Swiss Economy: Adapt tuition fees of services . Who provides very good performance, which will pay no tuition fees more stupid students for up to 10,000 Swiss francs per year. A first effect of the steady increase in power requirements at the elementary school, the increased spending for special care, or support for affirmative action. The number of small-or production-graders jumped in the last 10 years heavily in the air. Burnout symptoms are also among the students increased significantly.
What brings us this development?
In a few years you will find that the formation Turbos have done today in schools far more damage than they been obtained by improvements. In this sense, are the moth: brake forming turbos and is back to the deeper teaching and learning. Evaluates the status quo once correctly and evaluates the current school from first serious attempts before you start new ones. And let the children be children again. They grow up soon enough.
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