Curriculum

There has been a lot of controversy surrounding the new Sex-Ed curriculum that Ontario revealed in 2015. Sex education is an important portion of the school curriculum and while many parents have come out against the new curriculum and want the ‘radical’ curriculum discontinued; schools must provide adequate sex education because ignorance can be harmful. The main four topics that parents are protesting against that are fundamentally important to make youth aware of are: the importance of…

explicit, planned or written curriculum 1 WRITTEN AS PART OF FORMAL INSTRUCTIONS OF SCHOOL PROGRAMME. 2 IT'S A SUPPORTIVE TEACHING MATERIAL. 3 IT FALLS UNDER THE FORMAL DESIGNATED CURRICULUM MADE BY COLLECTIVE PROFFESIONALS . 4 IT'S AN EVIDENCE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHER PROOF CURRICULUM. E.G TEXT BOOKS PROVIDED IN TH SCHOOLS ARE TO BE FOLLOWED AND LESSONS MUST BE PLANNED FROM THEM. 2. Societal curriculum (or social curricula) 1 INFORMAL CURRICULUM OF PEOPLE AROUND…

The article “Why Is Dissemination So Difficult? The Nature of Teacher Knowledge and the Spread of Curriculum Reform” by Cheryl J. Craig, is informative and insightful because the author expresses her beliefs about curriculum dissemination from the narrative and perspective of Bernadette Lohle, a veteran teacher involved in a nationally funded curriculum dissemination project at Cochrane Academy School for the Mathematics, Sciences, and Fine Arts in New York. Lohle’s reactions capture tensions…

education curriculum was fragmented, and that there needed to be a national one to avoid that. Provenzo says in his writing that “whether the current curriculum in use in the schools across the country is adequate is of course open to debate… but to act as though there is not a de facto national curriculum is simply inaccurate”. He also says “Traditions, developmental patterns of students, textbook content, and national subject standards combine to create a fairly uniform national curriculum”,…

Whole school inquiry frameworks are a fantastic way of developing understandings in the classroom. For the curriculum to be effective there needs to be a 'collaborative process where students and teachers have a voice ' (Preston, Harvie, & Wallace, 2015). Inquiry frameworks, encourage active involvement and collaboration from the students in constructing their knowledge which is essential to effective teaching and learning. Approaching learning through inquiry enhances investigation and the…

Education as Ideology In The Making of Americans, E.D. Hirsch makes the argument that a curriculum based education system works much better than an anti-curriculum based or child-centered approach to education, offering up numerous studies to support his claim such as the increase in math scores on the SAT after elementary schools began to adopt a core curriculum (page 42). Hirsch states that since the beginning in the late eighteenth century, schools have had a duty to make every child…

throughout the curriculum development process. An educational needs assessment to identify current knowledge and skills will help drive the development of the most effective learning environments, whether the program is presented as a lecture, online through videos or power point presentation, simulations or a combination of modalities (Guin & Jax, 2015). Alignment and Congruence Curriculum Strategies The organization’s mission includes the patient-centered care approach. The proposed…

point in time, the school is not using a science curriculum. Last year, they piloted a science curriculum and, according to my cooperating teacher “It was a trainwreck”. Last year, my cooperating teacher told me that she used the Mystery Science curriculum and that she was still using it a little bit. Mystery Science is not the curriculum that was piloted, it is a curriculum that my cooperating teacher used in addition to the piloted curriculum. The rest of the first-grade team is not very…

rich and engaging ways.” However, the implementation of using the data collected from those tests should not be the only form for evaluating and creating a plan specifically designed and geared towards test achievement but should be used to create curriculum that integrates real-life applicational concepts, content, and context, in order for skills and knowledge to be gained. Learned knowledge cannot be fully understood by the students if it is not aid in identifying areas that need to be…

further questions” (p. 37). As such, the teacher acts as a guide for engaging in dialogue with others. Teachers will require training, support and time for collaboration and reflection in order to effectively implement a dialogic curriculum. Prioritizing a dialogic curriculum alongside current Common Core State Standards will be challenging and is in the best interest of our…