Comments on: This Explains Everything

By: a. woody delauder

a. woody delauder — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:02:08 +0000

Here is the correct link http://sitemaker.umich.edu/schueller.356/curriculum

By: a. woody delauder

a. woody delauder — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:59:53 +0000

Great example…
Our current Math curriculum. We teach the same skills K-5. Each year, teachers have the ability to touch on certain skills before they have to move on to the next. Every year, the same skills are taught, only in a different format for a higher level of thinking. Who is writing the curriculum? Were they ever teachers? Probably a mixed bag. We are teaching students to know a little bit about a lot. What happened to mastering a few core skills each year. Check out the differences at http://sitemaker.umich.edu/schueller.356/curriculum. It seems as though the teachers I have contact with all feel the same.

By: Mary Saffron

Mary Saffron — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:31:34 +0000

Testing, testing, testing. As another veteran teacher I sat through a recent department chair meeting with my superintendent explaining to us, so we could explain to our department members, why we need to increase our testing, and why that testing means only T/F or multiple choice, something easily disaggregated by some assessment analysis tool to which the district currently subscribes. Curriculum must include some degree of wiggle room……the wiggle room seems to be decreasing exponentially each year.

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Sicheii Yazhi » Who's Afraid of Merit-Based Pay? — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:01:27 +0000

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By: Doug Noon

Doug Noon — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:45:28 +0000

I liked this quote also, “This is often the place where innovation enters the Dead Sea.”

Thanks for that link.