William Spady
latest news & developmentsThe evolution of OBE
In my previous two columns in the Teacher, I’ve traced the evolution of outcomes based education (OBE) thinking and implementation over the past 35 years, from its early emphasis…
Mother-tongue education in a twist
Some significant legal and political victories for mother-tongue education were gained in the recent past. In relation to Afrikaans in particular, there was Mikro Primary Schools…
Shift in focus, not in content
Last month, I briefly traced the evolution of the outcomes-based education (OBE) movement over the past 35 years: from its focus on "expanding the conditions of success" in…
Shift in focus, not in content
Last month, I briefly traced the evolution of the outcomes-based education (OBE) movement over the past 35 years: from its focus on expanding the conditions of success in schools…
Learning, living and leading: The basics
In my two previous columns, I looked at the basics of education. What is basic about education, and what is basic to accomplishing it? The answers, I said, revolve around the…
Inside OBE – It’s about life-roles
Roy Killen of Australia and William Spady have created a tool – the Curriculum Design Matrix – that directly helps educators organise their curriculum thinking around any set of…
Inside OBE: Teachers must take charge
In the previous edition of the Teacher, I introduced a different way of thinking about "the basics" in education. They are the basics not of learning skills, but of the…
Inside OBE – Future-focused education
In Part 1 of this article, published in the December issue of <i>theTeacher</i>, I described how Roy Killen of Australia and I applied the powerful OBE concept of "Outcomes of…
Revisiting the essence of OBE
In August, I was asked to share some of the “cutting-edge essence” of my 35 years of experience with OBE in two seminars at the University of Pretoria. It was an exciting day for…