Devising: day 18

After discussing the direction of our piece with the group members who were missing for the last lesson, we decided to move our piece forward, exploring how a school may be like in twenty to thirty years time.

However, the only problem with this was that we didn't really know what a school would be like in the future. We don't have a magic crystal ball. This prompted our teacher to step in and give us the idea of interviewing teachers their opinions on issues such as behaviour and how school has changed during their career.

One teacher spoke to our group about this issue. The most noticeable points they made were that teachers and schools these days are more like glorified child care, without the pay of childminders. They said that schools may even be extended to having children until later times like 5pm. However, lazy teaching has led to more children being disengaged and more likely to misbehave, coupled With the fact that some teachers are scared of punishing children, either through fear of them, or their parents. Which I found quite unbelievable, but sadly likely.

This have us a small insight into what goes on in the present day school, which we could potentially use in our own present day scenes, but more importantly use this to stimulate potential future ideas for a school.

Below, we brainstormed a few ideas of what we felt a future school could be like.