Comments on: What do we do with goldbrickers and dead wood? http://www.e4africa.co.za/?p=720 Documenting the challenges of implemening ICT in schools in South Africa. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:59:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Albie http://www.e4africa.co.za/?p=720&cpage=1#comment-277 Albie Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:09:13 +0000 http://www.e4africa.co.za/?p=720#comment-277 I want to underline the following from Sharon:....If we start with ourselves and learn to recognize our own weaknesses and work to strengthen our own instructional practice, then we can start organizing professional communities to put pressure on the slackers. It’s time to appraise the ranks and weed out the goldbrickers. Educators not making things happen in the classroom, lab and with the EIAWB, they are the dead wood trees. But just to replace them with already a shortage of educators, will not be easy. Maybe the dead wood should get new soil, well manured and water more often to ensure that they don't "die". Albie I want to underline the following from Sharon:….If we start with ourselves and learn to recognize our own weaknesses and work to strengthen our own instructional practice, then we can start organizing professional communities to put pressure on the slackers. It’s time to appraise the ranks and weed out the goldbrickers.

Educators not making things happen in the classroom, lab and with the EIAWB, they are the dead wood trees. But just to replace them with already a shortage of educators, will not be easy. Maybe the dead wood should get new soil, well manured and water more often to ensure that they don’t “die”.

Albie

]]> By: kvanwyk http://www.e4africa.co.za/?p=720&cpage=1#comment-273 kvanwyk Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:33:40 +0000 http://www.e4africa.co.za/?p=720#comment-273 Kathy, you are so right! A tree bearing rotten fruit also merits repacement. But under the current circumstances it is hardly possible to replace the entire education system with one that functions properly. So the second prize would be to try and treasure and nurture the good brances, empowering them to bear some fruit, and attempt to prune out the dead wood. Kathy, you are so right! A tree bearing rotten fruit also merits repacement. But under the current circumstances it is hardly possible to replace the entire education system with one that functions properly.

So the second prize would be to try and treasure and nurture the good brances, empowering them to bear some fruit, and attempt to prune out the dead wood.

]]> By: Kathy http://www.e4africa.co.za/?p=720&cpage=1#comment-270 Kathy Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:31:21 +0000 http://www.e4africa.co.za/?p=720#comment-270 Prune out the dead wood? If the roots are rotten, isn't it better to plant a new tree? Prune out the dead wood? If the roots are rotten, isn’t it better to plant a new tree?

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