We must start recognising greatness in teachers. We must link student success directly to the role of teachers. We must also understand how to provide rigorous education, and to provide ongoing professional development.
Teaching and Learning
While online education has its benefits, the real, long-term good of the schooling system would be best-served by investing in developing a world-class teacher cohort for in-person schools that are rooted in and integrally serving their communities.
Decolonial education is the foundation on which all the hashtag movements were built. The aim of decolonial education is to see ‘the other’ as a person with emotions, thoughts, and feelings, not as an object to be studied and controlled.
Despite societal changes and an increased understanding of how best we learn, the way that teaching and learning takes place in most schools remains the same. Schools recognise this, but may not have the flexibility, time, energy or resources to do something about it.
In the tumultuous times of COVID-19, many teachers, parents and students are asking themselves, ‘How is education going...
It is imperative that we continuously educate ourselves as well as our students. The idea that we are fully developed as teachers, especially in the world in which we now find ourselves, is inconceivable.