Change the Culture!
Personal Author:
Fletcher, Geoffrey H.
Journal Name:
T.H.E. Journal
Source:
T.H.E. Journal v. 33 no. 11 (June 2006) p.

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This paper indicates that the Software and Information Industry Association’s (www.siia.com) recent Ed Tech Industry summit declared that helping educators and improving education will associate changing the culture of schools. This contributions indicate that such a transformation would involve changing No Child Left Behind when it comes up for reauthorization in the near future; changing the way states administer education; changing the way states and districts adopt textbooks/content; changing colleges of education; and providing extensive professional development to all teachers and, in particular, to school leaders.
No one actually defined the culture change, but everyone seemed to be talking about different concept of change, these changes include the way students’ way of looking for information and way they are solving problems, in addition, to never identifying what change, no one at the summit explained how to engender it. There were references to professional development, but the more I listened, the more I discerned a consensus: To transform the culture in our schools, we need to do all of the following: Change No Child Left Behind when it comes up for reauthorization in the next couple of
The questions that addressed in the summit is about: What does "change the culture" mean?
Does it means the Change of states administer education, or the way states and districts adopt textbooks/content, or Change colleges of education
In my opinion the change included all aspects of traditional classroom, e.g.the teacher center class to student center where the teacher is not the only source of information, also student exchange knowledge and information from each other,
Moreover the power of research, culture and geography