Eight programmes for teachers and parents on the changing scene in secondary schools
Introduced by DR. F. HILLIARD
4: Teaching in the Flexible School
There has been a great deal of discussion amongst educationists and head teachers about how to make the traditional school organisation more flexible. How can * streaming ' of children be abolished? How can the old divisions between subjects like History and Geography, Science and Maths be broken down? But the most vital question for most serving teachers is generally left unasked and unanswered. What is it like to be a teacher who is trained and practised in traditional school attitudes. and who is suddenly faced with a revolution in classroom practice imposed from above?
An ex-grammar school teacher who became head of the geography department of a ' flexible ' comprehensive school, describes how he came successfully to modify his entire teaching methods
Produced by Peter Jarvis
Second broadcast