Teaching and Learning in 2020
The report ‘2020 Vision‘ was published recently. This report was the outcome of a review announced by Ruth Kelly last year and presents a vision for personalising teaching and learning for children and young people aged 5-16. It then makes some recommendations for the delivery of that vision.
The report considers:
- Ways to improve and sustain the rate of pupil progress
- Strategies to enhance teachers’ skills and share best practice
- How to engage pupils and parents in the learning process
- Ways in which flexibilities in the curriculum might support personalised learning
- How to establish a better system of innovation in teaching and learning in schools
From a technological view –and on a first reading– the report seems a little conservative in its approach to the role of technology. Whilst crystal-ball gazing is always a dangerous thing to do, I would have liked to have seen more of an understanding or recognition of the profound ways in which networked technologies are effecting the world which our children are shaping for themselves. Not to mention the new forms of media and the changes in the relationship between service consumers and suppliers (including the State).