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Children are therefore seen as the digital people and more formal approaches to education have been criticised as an old-fashioned and outdated. Critics have condemned that they want to return to the lost golden age, it seems, when the professors in the class ahead of preaching from Chair and learning is learning based on intelligence.

As always, the truth is not as simple as that. As the baby-boomer teachers should remember, do not have any new information in a call to the lifting of the conservative teaching styles, and how to plan and program as soon as the matter and it is based on the World was a student.

Teacher training during the late 1960s and alkuvuodesta'70s it is time for radical space, such as Ivan Illich, Paulo Freire, AS Neil and Neil Postman. The traditional teaching styles, such as ineffective denounced, deadening, and is guilty of reinforcing at a disadvantage and inequality.

When I first Doctrine of Melbourne's western suburbs in 1975, student-focus on learning, in which the traditional subjects became a secondary process of learning and students' interests were in the foreground, was lauded as a path to the future.

Teacher unions, and scientists argued against the teacher as cultural gatekeepers, and we were told that all were equal in the classroom, and that is what students can be a commitment by the terms of experience, interests and motivations, it is of paramount importance.

The Whitlam government schools, the Commission stated that "no desire to strengthen traditional methods," and that each student got a chance to "learn his identity, to learn how to shape their values and make decisions and find the meaning of his formal training."

As a result, the Commonwealth-funded initiatives, such as disadvantaged schools participate in the program, and oman capital program - which aims to develop a more formal alternative ordo practice - many of us during the'80s experimenting with innovations such as team teaching , Group work and consult with the curriculum. In its extreme, the classroom walls disappeared, the tables will no longer face the front of the room and rituals, when they give respect and discipline - such as students' standing, even when the teacher came into the room, or will be raised their hands before asking to speak - has declined.

In England, the formal teaching of grammar and technical aspects of the essay writing on a large extent disappeared from the teaching plan and program the result of innovations, such as the process of writing, and all is language in which the focus was on the individual child's creation.

Themes such as history and geography have been merged into amorphous, politically correct blancmange studies represent the society and the environment, and learning became consumed by the tyranny of sense if the student's World took center stage.

As our history says that many innovations related to teaching,'70s and'80s failed. Those who taught during those years, began to understand, as claimed, the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, that the education and training without the discipline or the traditional issues could be behind the privileged students whose home background gave them cultural capital to succeed, but still disadvantage of those who have the most at risk.

Expecting students, especially primary schools, fashion their own learning is naive, as it was to be able to go to school without encountering a rigorous educational experience, which Victoria Blackburn's 1985 report also called "the best validated knowledge and artistic achievements."

Many of us have learned the hard way that it is giving students restriction of freedom was negative and short-sighted.

Freedom to achieve something difficult to require focus and a willingness to separate the immediate needs and gratitude. Pressure teachers to monitor, evaluate and record each student's progress made in a form which is "in progress, diagnostic and participatory" - but a random test has been marked AE, or numerically - sets debilitating job, turning teachers into bookkeepers and destroy the joy of teaching.

But, to stay in classrooms for long enough, how much is an old hand is well known, and the wheel turns full circle surrounding experimentation, and begins again. As a result, Australia has adopted a results-based education in the mid's 90, criticism of traditional styles of teaching has renewed and, again, teachers are pressured to change.

Teachers are called facilitators and students become independent and self-directed lifelong disciples.

Instead, that behind the well-established disciplines, syllabus priority should be oriented to the future, must be able to work in teams and social justice.

Mirror'60s ja'70s, the Ministry of Education has changed - from words to the father of American based on the results of education William Spady - "control the content of academic subjects," "direct engagement with life in the role of emerging challenges" and "personal control over their own learning and development. "

Based on the theory of learning, known as Constructivism - a model suitable to Australia's teacher training institutions and subject to a number of NGOs - was the belief that children learn best when he assumed control of their own learning and practice ordo should be involved in your hands, so-called " real world.

As and hundreds of Learning Outcomes and detailed results-based education in the style of study documents and expectation that teachers should be followed and that responds to the unique needs of each student, it is no surprise, classroom practice has become more than a recording of classes.

State and territory governments' plan for 2007 Australian Education, federalist Paper 2, also is required of teachers in the adoption of a progressive, student center teaching style, with its advocacy of individual learning.

As part of Tony Blair's education revolution, the British after the school standards minister David Miliband described as a personal learning in 2004, in his speech as a radically new approach in the classroom, the organization is based on learning things, the meeting is unique abilities of each child and to respect different students tax rates and learning styles.

Tailor-made learning and focuses on the use of information technology, the classroom, such as computers, Internet, electronic whiteboards and PowerPoint presentations. Teachers were told, children are now in print-averse, such as a greater level of SMS messaging and multi-modal texts.

If the economy known as the dismal science, then education should be invited on one inaccurate. From myöhään'60s, various curricular changes forced the people is classrooms had more to do with ideology, fads, political opportunism and bureaucratic interference as evidence of what works. As stated in the 1995 NSW ELTIS report, Australia was adopting the results of training took place when he was little, if any, research proving the benefits, or that it is successfully implemented elsewhere.

A 2007 report to the Victorian Department of Education, Personalising Education: From the research, policy and practice, but noted that new learning has some advantages, says: "Tailor-made learning is still in the stage embryos, so that there is little evidence for the entire performance. "

As it is impractical and underfunded, Kevin Rudd in the 2007 election campaign promise to give every high school student computer and fast Internet flies in the face of mounting evidence that the technology is not a panacea that many are doing so May will be.

A recent survey of U.S. students showed that they understood that learning to write a formal, academic way, it is of crucial importance for their future independence and success, and that is a kind of communications will be used Facebook or when the SMS messaging is not suitable for the classroom .

Suggest that recent history, change the curriculum was lacking a strong foundation is not to say that the study was conducted. Take the perennial debate between advocates of more formal teaching styles, more than what is known in America as a direct guidelines for the more progressive views.

The track, a four-year, $ 1billion project will examine the different approaches to teaching, concluded that the teacher-directed, formal style, teaching was more effective than those associated with Constructivism, and based on the results of training.

U.S. study supports the NSW academic John Sweller, who argues: "This is not a part of human cognitive architecture, which suggests that the survey is based on learning would be better to direct instructions, and much that is likely to be worse."

In particular, disadvantaged children, rote learning and activities, such as mental arithmetic are the foundation of learning, which must be mastered before moving to a higher order, more abstract, skills and know-how.

The study to assess how the classes are taught strong education systems, as measured by international tests, concludes that the actual classrooms with little disruption, and more time for teachers to give their explicit direction, students will receive regular feedback and curriculum is academically rigorous and focused on learning essential.

As an Australian academic mathematics Rhonda Farkota "comprehensive comparison of all the literature and research, student-directed approach to learning with teacher-directed learning, show that the empirical data, strongly favored the latter is more effective."

It is also true that, if they meet the developing countries in the curriculum are ready to listen ordo teachers about what is and does not work and what best suits the needs of students, followed by a significant number of teachers frustration should be avoided.

Good teachers vary their styles and approaches, depending on the task at hand, the nature of their students and physical limitations and restrictions of time. Class' A'30 ga seems difficult for individual learning of each child and teacher-directed approach is often necessary when introducing a new topic. Teaching styles and vary depending on the subject is taught, and especially the school's philosophy and pedagogical approach.

There are different types of schools, particularly in the non-government and the Catholic, which ends on those committed to competitive, academic curriculum with traditional ordo environment, which are often smaller, community-based schools are interested in a broader, less formal look at education. Under the Australian Constitution states, control training. As a result, different state education systems have developed their own curriculums and systems.

A crucial aspect of the prime minister, the education revolution is concentrate control of education, particularly with regard to the teaching styles, what is taught and how teachers are trained and rewarded. The federal government intends to allow responsible for the situation of education in order to implement a one size fits all approach. The dangers are obvious. Progressive, the new-age approaches to education, such as whole language, and the results are based on education, writing large classrooms across the nation, a recipe for destruction.