Creating Tomorrow's Schools Today (education - Our Children - Their Futures)

By (author) Gerver Richard
Description
''It''s time to focus on the needs of our children, not the whims of our politicians, to provide a way forward for a new landscape in education.'' Is our education system working? What future are we preparing our children for? What future do we NEED to prepare our children for? Are we at risk of failing a generation? In this updated edition of renowned education speaker Richard Gerver’s book we are faced with these worrying questions and many more regarding the schools our children are attending, the curriculum they are following and the testing system used to categorise them. In this rousing call for educational revolution, Richard argues passionately that we must fight harder for our children’s futures and we must do it today! Richard describes the strategies he used when he was brought in as head teacher to turn around Grange Primary school. It was there that he implemented his vision for a school system that caters for every child; a system that helps nurture self-confidence, self-worth, creativity, innovative thinking, team-working and communication skills - all key employability skills that children will need in the fast-moving world of technology and information they are growing up in. Richard is now the second most successful education speaker in the world behind Sir Ken Robinson, who describes Richard as ‘one of the clearest and most passionate voices for radical change in education’ and wrote the foreword for this book. Richard has updated Creating Tomorrow’s Schools Today based on his visits to schools on every continent, his conversations on education with teachers and industry-leading visionaries such as Steve Wozniak, and in the context of an education system that he fears is forgetting the future we need to prepare our children for. Reforms, tweaks and new policies are not enough – a radical transformation is needed. If you read only one Education manifesto in the next year, this is it! Join the conversation: #Edvision
Table of contents
Acknowledgements Foreword by Sir Ken Robinson Preface - The Moral Imperative Section One: The Challenge 1: Our children, their futures/ 2: Tomorrow''s natives/ 3: Selling school/ 4: Encouraging the mistake makers/ 5: Who is school for/ 6: What should we teach?/ 7: Learning that matters/ 8: An end to factory schooling/ 9: For their futures?/ 10: Making school magical!/ 11: Beyond only schools /12: The way forward? Section Two: The Way it Could Be Ch 13 - Creating The Vision The thinking behind the ‘Grange way'' Ch 14 - Developing the Whole Child Putting personal development at the heart of the process Ch 15 - Beyond Subjects Developing a thematic approach Ch 16 - The Grangeton Project Creating three dimensional learning Ch 17 - A Curriculum of all the Talents Nurturing every individual and finding what makes them tick Ch 18 - Into the Unknown Moving forward from the book Afterword - Leading into the Unknown Bibliography and References Index
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Richard Gerver is one of the clearest and most passionate voices for radical change both in education and in business. As a highly successful and revolutionary school principal he has transformed the expectations and achievements of children, teachers and communities alike. In his compelling presentations and books he now takes his powerful message of hope and possibility to educators, policy makers and business leaders around the world. It''s a message that has to be heard.
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There is a battle for the soul of education going on. Who wins matters terribly. Read Gerver''s beautifully written book, see what''s at stake -and come down on the right side!
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An excellent book that will make you think critically about learning and how to create an education system that cherishes the talents and abilitie