Mick Waters (education)
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Professor Michael Waters (born 1949, Northamptonshire) was the Director of Curriculum at the (British)
Early life
His father was a plasterer and his mother was a school cook. He attended Magdalen College School, Brackley, then a grammar school. At school he was particularly good at cricket and wanted to become a professional cricketer. His careers advisor at school persuaded him to choose teaching as a career. He attended Sheffield City College of Education (the City of Sheffield Training College on Collegiate Crescent, now part of Sheffield Hallam University) for his teacher's certificate.
Career
Teaching
He began as a primary school teacher in Nottingham. He was headmaster at two schools at Barrow-in-Furness and Kendal, then worked in teacher training at Charlotte Mason College, later part of Lancaster University, then the Ambleside campus of St Martin's College, then part of University of Cumbria, who closed the teacher training courses in 2008.
LEAs
He worked at Birmingham
QCA
He moved to the QCA in May 2005, leaving in 2009.[2]
His role at the QCA was to give children a meaningful foundation of education, specifically to provide them with knowledge that will give them help in later life, and not just generic academic knowledge for the sake of it. This obligatory curriculum would prepare them for the future.
In September 2010, he described the English, Welsh and Northern Irish exams system (GCSE) as “diseased and almost corrupt” in the book Reinventing Schools, Reforming Teaching.[3]
Personal life
He lives in Worcester in Worcestershire.
References
- ^ "Mick Waters, curriculum guru, takes stock". The Guardian. 2010-09-07. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
- ^ "Pupils' champ leaves QCA". Tes. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
- ISBN 978-1-136-89092-5.
External links
News items
- Guardian September 2010
- Exams system in September 2010
- Manchester pupils 'win' £100 for not truanting in March 2004