Hello All!
One of the things that has been raised by Shelia's post about changing the 
guidelines for this echo is the fact that we sometimes have some teacher 
bashers in here.  I guess that they are usually;
people who had a bad experience at school or
parents who have had a bad run in with one of their childs' teachers for 
whatever reason or
parents who, because of ignorance of the administration or the curriculum 
thinks that teachers are incompetant. (These ones think they can do a better 
job themselves.
One doesn't need to be trained as a teacher to be apt to teach.  However one 
who teaches in a school should have a philosophy about education and about 
how children learn as well as knowledge and understanding of curriculum.
There are those who belive the role of the school is to teach only the core 
curriculum (ie maths, literacy, science, social science, the arts, health and 
physical wellbeing)  There are others who add the social and moral dimension 
while there are those who say it is not the role of the school to teach 
values and manners to the school.
I personally think that teaching morals, values, and manners is primarily the 
function of the family BUT we have many students in schools who come from 
backgrounds which have morals and values that differ from that of the school 
and there are some behavioural expectations that need to be taught before 
curriculum delivery can be effective.
The following two messages elevate the notion of education from a teaching 
and learning plateau to a much broader concept.
Perhaps they will provide something from which a number of threads can be 
started.
Cheers
Chris
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