A second day at University in under a week and we learnt all about assessment in the morning and more maths in the afternoon. There is certainly a lot of data around in schools, not least government targets, standards, tools and processes. The level of jargon and acronym use would put Diageo to shame. All of it is eminently logical and sensible but the issue with BIG government, as it is with BIG business, is that someone has to apply it all. I do not know for sure but that someone is almost certainly the poor classroom teacher. I am also sure that there are senior management teams put in place to oversee the classroom teachers and make sure they fill in all forms and follow the directives. I must dig out that brilliant powerpoint presentation about the team of rowers.
It was an interesting morning and I managed not to embarrass myself in the maths session. I still haven't sorted out my second school placement but it looks like it could be at a small private school for special needs boys with behavioural and learning difficulties. Should be interesting.
