"These disappointing results are rooted in non-profit school communities maintaining for-profit activities, i.e., external / subject curriculum focus and test scores."
No, I'm not for throwing out the baby with the bath water. We need to ensure reading, writing/keyboard skills, arithmetic/numbers/finance is in our base-level learning, as we also need moral, values, community, health, global issues and self management to be included within the evidenced experiences of being at school and with educators.
But we do need some relationship stuff, too. No one with even the slightest hope of success in life would ever expect to alter the behaviour of another without a firm relationship focus underpinning their intentions and expectations.
Our first teacher-test must be for 'Ability to form sustaining, beneficial relationships with pupils which will underpin learning through trust and relevance to each child.' Education managers should ensure the environment which supports the development of these relationships - events, time-tables, quality-assurance....
Teachers do not teach to earn money - they teach so their students succeed through their teaching.
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