What do you think about some of these questions, all generated from your comments and discussion thus far in blogs and forums?
1. What does it mean to involve our students in curriculum development? How much should they be involved?
2. Is the concept of scope and sequence in curriculum a valid concept in 2011. Or does technology make scope and sequence outdated?
3. Why are subjects the primary organizing framework for curriculum at the K-12 level? Who decided that the subjects we teach are the ones our students should know?
4. Why does the K-12 curriculum give so little attention to the issues that our students are interested in?
5. If you had to describe the elementary, middle level, or high school curriculum—what you see as the essential learnings at that level— what would you say?
6. What are two other ways to organize the curriculum other than the traditional separate subjects? What does each look like?
7. HH Jacobs does think of teachers as the drivers of curriculum improvement. Should teachers be the movers and shakers of curriculum?
8. If we asked our students to suggest what they would like to learn, what would they say...at different levels?
Thanks for all of these great questions. I look forward to answering them with you!
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