Alan November at the 2011 SSAT conference asked: Who works harder in your school: teachers or students? He suggests that students work harder in developing countries but teachers usually work harder in the developed world. He believes that students work harder when they own the learning. He describes schools in which students own the learning as having “amazing energy and excitement, of discipline and quality work.”
The three things that people need to do quality work are:
- Purpose: the sense that your work will have value for others;
- Autonomy
- Mastery
Perhaps we should ask our pupils whether they have purpose. Is all the work they have done just for themselves or can it make a contribution to others? Will it have a beneficial legacy?
He quotes examples of students creatingMaths videos and using a wiki to write the course textbook.
Why should a student do homework when the teacher already knows the answers? Students work on the web when they won’t do their homework: “Do I publish to the world or my teacher?”
A school should be a global publisher. To give students a global voice, teacher and schools need global voices.
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