Learning for life
Chapters 6 to 11
*chapter six Information, communication and learning technology
Technology has become the main source when it comes to learn and to dig for information. I can say that nowadays it is the heart of the teaching and learning process, everybody is involved in it. It plays an important role in teachers and students’ meaningful learning.
*chapter seven school design
What teachers and students need is a comfortable place to share their knowledge. The school should have the appropriate material that the teachers and students might need; the classroom should have enough space and comfortable desks. I think that more schools are needed in order for each teacher to have just the students that are required because that will be the only way in which he/she can give individual help and attention to each students .
*chapter 8 Innovation
Many of us want to innovate the teaching and the learning system, but almost no one is doing something to achieve it, most of us are still doing what everybody has been doing. I think that everybody would like to do things different with the objective of doing them better, but this is a hard process because someone must start it and it will take time to achieve it.
*chapter 9
The teaching profession
I totally agree with this chapter. Sometimes teacher don’t really care about their students’ learning. Many of them are used to taking education as a simple job and they don’t give all what they should in a classroom, at least they should be warm to show their students that they are welcome in order for learning to take place for a long time period. It’s sad to see teachers that treat their students as if these were not persons. Many teachers decide to become teachers just because that is a short major, and many others work as teachers because that’s the only resource they have to get a monthly salary. What I like about this is that there are still many teachers that really love teaching and thank to those teachers there are still effective education for some students.
*chapter 10
leadership
Leaders are important in the improvement and the effectiveness of a school. I totally agree with this chapter when it says that many leaders have become leaders for accidents or because the circumstances require so, and I think that’s why the educational world is not having the success that it should. What everybody needs now are not only leaders with the desire and the eager of innovating the education system but also students with the same desires because leaders alone cannot establish the right foundation for lifelong learning at the schools.
*chapter 11
Firm foundation
Education is constantly changing due to its policy, but what happens is that its policies are not strong enough to make a firm foundation of the education. However, they are in the way of achieving it, I really liked when I read that the leaders intend to modernize comprehensive education to create inclusive schooling that provides a broad, flexible and motivating education that recognizes the different talents of all children and delivers excellence for everyone.
So, I just can say that achieving an excellent education and help students to learn for life is not impossible. The world just needs innovator teachers and pupils with the desire of learning for life.
