"Teach Less, Learn More:Re-igniting Passion and Mission"

This is the strap line of the Ministry of Education Singapore ... exciting times ( thanks to the Kent Teachers Blog for the link)

TLLM calls on educators to go back to basics and it outlines what those should be. The three phases discussed are:

1. Remember Why We Teach
2. Reflect on What We Teach
3. Reconsider How We Teach

I won't spoil your vist to the site to find out more by revealing the meat behind the titles ...but I can't resist copying this quote ( in case you get no further)

As part of the blueprint on holistic education laid out by Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Minister for Education, in a Parliamentary speech, we “will seek to cut back on quantity… so as to provide more ‘white space’ in the curriculum, space which gives schools and teachers the room to introduce their own programmes, to inject more quality in teaching, or give students themselves the room to exercise initiative and shape more of their own learning."

The Kent Teachers Blog goes on to ask a key question about what titles say about National Strategies ... in the US - No Child Left Behind, in the UK - Every Child Matters and in Singapore - Teach Less, Learn More ... I think it is time I did some world wide research to add to this list and then give them some careful thought. I wonder what Finland says? (this after reading Ewan's post last week)