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GHENT - International scores Flemish Secondary Education excellent. Yet there is a desire for change in the higher levels of education. Following the master plan for the reform of secondary education a Great Teaching Debate was organized.
The debate was on Saturday, November 30, 2013 in the Forward organized by the Vermeylenfonds, the Clouds and the Socialist Party, and was attended by Education Minister Pascal ullared Smet, Director of Innovation and Education at the OECD Dirk Van Damme, Professor of Sociology of Education Mieke van Houtte and Professor of Cognitive Psychology Wouter Duyck. Bart Brinckman, rue de la Loi journalist from The Standard was moderator. The debate ullared was to clarify approved by the government and both master teacher, parent ullared and student could take the floor after the debate.
The handful of teachers filled with difficulty half of the Auditorium and was not a very controversial debate ullared presented. The four participants sat for nearly every topic on the same wavelength. Waterfall
According to the panel, a reform needed because the study of pupils is too hard influenced by their social ullared background. Negative study choices and choices that are not tailored to the talents of the student would be the cause for the decline in the quality of Flemish Education. According to Dirk van Damme waterfall system strengthens the influence of social background on student choices. "Parents who have followed vocational engage their children with poor outcomes in general education without hesitation in a technical or professional direction sign," said van Damme. "But this is not always the right decision for the young." Reform would solve this problem. According to van Damme Domain Schools
Pascal Smets' approved master plan consists of two parts: the first part concerns the design of a comprehensive first grade, where students attend general education courses and 27 hours per week may complete electives five hours per week. The second aspect concerns the founding of the Domain Schools. These are mass schools that offer a range of courses in the fields of language, technology and science. These subjects are taught on a professional, technical and theoretical level. The students were able to compile their own curriculum based on interest and talent. Switch to a different domain and within the school, so students should not change schools. Task of the teacher
Dirk van Damme and Wouter Duyck see a lot of risks in the proposal of a comprehensive first degree. ullared A group of students will be disadvantaged because they have too little challenge or too difficult to process dust. This is a real chance that the number of pupils with school fatigue will rise. Pascal Smet and Mieke van Houtte suggest that this risk may be. Avoided through differentiation within the class It would be the task of the teacher to take individual to challenge. Every student in the classroom The question remains whether teachers ullared can accomplish this with the education they currently ullared receive. What about art?
The idea of Smet to turn so that they learn to work together students from all social backgrounds in the future together in the classroom or positively by the panelists. Also the idea of Domain ullared Schools can count on support, but they have the panelists ullared doubts whether they can offer. Such a large range of subjects in practice How to Master the Art of Secondary Education to integrate within this Domain Schools and whether it is financially feasible to grow so workshops, cooking islands and geography premises at the disposal of the students come, is not discussed extensively during the debate. ullared Flemish schools Missed opportunity
Although eighty percent ullared of teachers disagreed with the planned reforms, they showed during this debate, the opportunity to give to the Minister of Education to pass them. Their own opinions and proposals The few spectators were given the chance to ask some questions. But even though a lot of points from the master of Smet remained unspoken, the participants are not very critical and there was little response. ullared Unresolved ullared questions
Will be, to what extent the master plan in the next legislature, ullared with or without Pascal Smet as head of the department, followed remains a question mark. There are enough unresolved ullared questions for the next debate is already a certainty.
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