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Oct 17, 2008 at 09:30 PM |
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Mid September saw the resignation of the Royal Society’s director of education, Professor Michael Reiss. His crime? He suggested that teachers should be respectful to creationist students and not ridicule their views. Hardly revolutionary as advice to teachers and entirely consistent with the Royal Society’s own policies. However, because Reiss was misreported in some papers as advocating teaching creationism in science classrooms, a capital offence in these days of fundamentalist atheism, he has had to go.
Despite originally supporting him, the Royal Society defends his resignation on the grounds that his speech was open to mis-interpretation. Not to anyone who bothered to get their facts right! Reiss, in fact, was advising on how to better engage students in order to persuade them of the merits of evolution. As Melanie Phillips’s column in the Spectator put it, this was a “Secular Inquisition at the Royal Society”. |
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Last Updated ( Oct 17, 2008 at 09:30 PM )
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Oct 17, 2008 at 06:39 PM |
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As a result of the review of the transfer process assessment is now included in the curriculum review. It is suggested that end of Key Stage assessment be replaced with a standard annual report which will focus on each of the curriculum areas and on essential skills.
The nine curriculum subjects will be combined into five areas:
i) Creative, Expressive and Physical Development,
ii) Language and Literacy,
iii) Mathematics and Numeracy,
iv) Personal Development,
v) The World Around Us,
and content is to be delivered in topics. There is to be an emphasis on personal, interpersonal and thinking skills and teachers are to have more flexibility in content. It is suggested that there is great potential to combine Personal Development with work in Religious Education.
Other new features include the introduction of a Foundation Stage for the pre-school year to year 2, with the Primary Stage starting at year 3.
Bad news for anyone trying to avoid ICT - CCEA intends to provide computer based sample teaching plans and other resources. Similarly, assessment, recording and reporting will be ICT based. |
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What can NIACT offer you? |
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Written by Administrator
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Nov 19, 2005 at 07:52 AM |
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NIACT is not a trade union but it provides support for Christian teachers in a variety of ways including:
- prayer support through local prayer groups meeting regularly;
- conferences & training courses;
- literature published by ACT;
- encouraging Christian teachers to think Biblically about educational and professional issues.
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