ABSTRACT

This is the essence of the message from a report by the Schools Council on the Early School Leaver. This report also claims that there is a lack of confidence and uncertainty of teachers about what to teach, the majority of teachers accepting that for slow learners the ‘text’ book is inadequate and out of place. Many authorities, realising that R.O.S.L.A. would keep many reluctant learners in school for the extra year and thereby pose many problems for the teachers, set up, as early as 1967, teachers’ centres, working parties and development teams to create appropriate teaching materials. Some of these projects provide excellent starting points or supplementary materials and a list of available projects can be found in Appendix VI. However, these materials do not solve the problem for the majority of pupils for a great part of the time they spend in school.