Watching this for university. I have a problem with the red card green card thing. I think we should be talking to children, not carding them like they're playing football. It's also got an element of social shaming in there where a kid is given a visible negative for something. Just saying 'Hey, I don't think you're being very respectful at the moment.' or 'Can you not talk while I'm talking please?' Should be enough. Playground police is a great way to get kids to boss each other around. I think it'd be better to have a rotating system where it's framed less as 'police' and infringement, but more mediation and problem-solving. Then individual children aren't 'the boss.' This school has a lot of rules despite the 'only four school rules' thing. I never understood the whole 'don't eat in class' thing. I needed to eat in class during high school and even now in university to keep my energy up and stay awake.
The idea that the kids would all go mad and start shouting if the rules were allowed to be broken just shows that the children are being controlled, when the kids were asked what would happen if a teacher allowed you to break the rules and a little girl said 'they would be kind' show the rules are somehow 'unkind'. Children are not credited for their ability to make good choices here, they know if you break all the rules chaos may ensue but do they need rules written up ? why can't they just respect each other? and I really did not like the two police children, I felt they were coerced into this and this is the job of an adult who has the skills to guide these young people.
Awesome video. Thank you heaps.
When the HT reeled off an insane amount of rules, I thought the lesson was about how the bureacrats were now in charge at Brussells.
Alot different from when my daughter and son attended cowley high school, so sad to see it like this different culture altogether now.
Watching this for university. I have a problem with the red card green card thing.
I think we should be talking to children, not carding them like they're playing football. It's also got an element of social shaming in there where a kid is given a visible negative for something.
Just saying 'Hey, I don't think you're being very respectful at the moment.' or 'Can you not talk while I'm talking please?' Should be enough.
Playground police is a great way to get kids to boss each other around. I think it'd be better to have a rotating system where it's framed less as 'police' and infringement, but more mediation and problem-solving. Then individual children aren't 'the boss.'
This school has a lot of rules despite the 'only four school rules' thing.
I never understood the whole 'don't eat in class' thing. I needed to eat in class during high school and even now in university to keep my energy up and stay awake.
The idea that the kids would all go mad and start shouting if the rules were allowed to be broken just shows that the children are being controlled, when the kids were asked what would happen if a teacher allowed you to break the rules and a little girl said 'they would be kind' show the rules are somehow 'unkind'. Children are not credited for their ability to make good choices here, they know if you break all the rules chaos may ensue but do they need rules written up ? why can't they just respect each other? and I really did not like the two police children, I felt they were coerced into this and this is the job of an adult who has the skills to guide these young people.