The Weird CEO by Charles Towers-Clark

Author:Charles Towers-Clark [Towers-Clark, Charles]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 055338371X
Publisher: WEIRD GROUP PUBLISHING
Published: 2018-11-26T05:00:00+00:00

Suggesting that people will lose their job to Artificial Intelligence is one level of controversy; suggesting that children should be educated differently is far more emotive.

Likewise, encouraging managers to allow employees to bring out the best of themselves is simple compared to persuading teachers to change the way they teach. Although teachers don’t have competitors nipping at their heels, they do have government-set methodologies to follow and try to navigate whilst bringing out the best in each child. These facts ensure that change within schools, both at an administrative and personnel level, is hard.

However, unless we change the way our children are educated, they will not be prepared for a world in which machines carry out repetitive tasks and people carry out the tasks that require versatility.

My own children study in a school that is going through a change process and I have discussed further potential changes with its senior management. New experiments and initiatives have been started – but there is a long way to go. However, the task that they are undertaking is far more complicated than that undertaken by us at Pod Group. Their customers are parents – the majority of whom don’t want their children to be guinea pigs in what they perceive may be an ill-fated experiment. Their employees are teachers, many of whom have taught at the school for many years. They see no reason to change what ‘works’ and certainly don’t see any benefits in taking practices from the commercial world.

One of the things that has not changed between my school experience and that of my children is that in both cases we have spent countless hours in lessons achieving and learning nothing. At the end of each year we had gained a certain amount of academic knowledge, but when compared to nine or ten months of full time input – the output is low. Every day I know that each of my children will have attended at least two lessons that were ill suited to their level, and so they would not have paid attention. And therein lies the problem; the current educational system does not capture children’s attention.

Life is short and the first 18 (or 21 if you include university) years are an amazing opportunity to get to know lots of interesting things. However, there appears to be an attitude that the goal of education is for children to reach a minimum standard of knowledge by the time they leave school, regardless of different aptitudes and interests.

Whilst controversial, project and personalised learning offer two routes to make education more interesting, increase the time teachers can spend one-on-one with pupils and ensure that learning is focused on the abilities of each child in order to make more efficient use of their time.

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