From the text, I take the question "what educational purposes should the class seek to attain?" and merge it with Goodlad's operationalization of access to knowledge "include rather than exclude students from the educational process". Taking those two individual thoughts and sitting down with each class, we tailor my curriculum together as a class. This means we hit all the standard objectives I want to cover, but will allow students input on how much time is spent on each unit to satisfy their goals. This also helps provide students with "essential skills for learning" stated by Goodlad because they have buy-in on the process. By answering the initial question as a class, I put a bit of the power in their student's hands and show, firsthand,
