Comments on: The Three I's of Curriculum http://www.geraldaungst.com/blog/2010/07/the-three-is-of-curriculum/ Learner | Teacher | Designer | Storyteller Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:00:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Christopher Rogers http://www.geraldaungst.com/blog/2010/07/the-three-is-of-curriculum/comment-page-1/#comment-186 Christopher Rogers Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:02:49 +0000 http://www.quisitivity.org/?p=433#comment-186 This is an excellent post! Thank you for getting me thinking about curriculum and planning again. I like your ideas and approach, now I need to figure out how to implement them. My recent post <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Edtechswami/~3/6EwGhwPaB0I/" rel="nofollow">Are Teachers Wasting Their Time Teaching Styles</a> This is an excellent post! Thank you for getting me thinking about curriculum and planning again. I like your ideas and approach, now I need to figure out how to implement them.
My recent post Are Teachers Wasting Their Time Teaching Styles

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]]> By: Gerald Aungst http://www.geraldaungst.com/blog/2010/07/the-three-is-of-curriculum/comment-page-1/#comment-184 Gerald Aungst Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:29:56 +0000 http://www.quisitivity.org/?p=433#comment-184 There is so much worth teaching, that we'll never be able to teach it all, so we have to stop trying. Let kids start driving more of what gets taught. Keep the core curriculum really core—only the absolute essentials (though agreeing on what those should be is part of the problem). I think part of my point is that if we design that core properly, kids will naturally and automatically pursue the rest on their own. As an aside, I'm thinking teacher professional development needs to do the same, but that's a whole other blog post… :) There is so much worth teaching, that we’ll never be able to teach it all, so we have to stop trying. Let kids start driving more of what gets taught. Keep the core curriculum really core—only the absolute essentials (though agreeing on what those should be is part of the problem). I think part of my point is that if we design that core properly, kids will naturally and automatically pursue the rest on their own.

As an aside, I’m thinking teacher professional development needs to do the same, but that’s a whole other blog post… :)

]]> By: @johnpeters http://www.geraldaungst.com/blog/2010/07/the-three-is-of-curriculum/comment-page-1/#comment-183 @johnpeters Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:08:15 +0000 http://www.quisitivity.org/?p=433#comment-183 Gerald; I agree that our curricula is quite full. I teach a series of classes called Health Science Technology which essentially is a 4-year program culminating in students spending their 11th & 12th grade years in high school in the Health Care field engaged in real-world observations with doctors, nurses and other allied health care providers. I know that at the end of every year I always feel that we could have done more. Students have a tremendous amount of activities, both in school and out, that compete for their time. We have a 45 minute time period in a single day, out of 7 or 8 class periods, to try to teach what we think is important and in many cases what supports the standards of of our state or local school boards. I enjoy your thoughts about Invite, Inspire and Ignite. As a teacher, that's what I strive to do. I'm not always successful, but I think it's what I strive for and the standard we as teachers should aspire too. Gerald;

I agree that our curricula is quite full. I teach a series of classes called Health Science Technology which essentially is a 4-year program culminating in students spending their 11th & 12th grade years in high school in the Health Care field engaged in real-world observations with doctors, nurses and other allied health care providers. I know that at the end of every year I always feel that we could have done more.

Students have a tremendous amount of activities, both in school and out, that compete for their time. We have a 45 minute time period in a single day, out of 7 or 8 class periods, to try to teach what we think is important and in many cases what supports the standards of of our state or local school boards.

I enjoy your thoughts about Invite, Inspire and Ignite. As a teacher, that’s what I strive to do. I’m not always successful, but I think it’s what I strive for and the standard we as teachers should aspire too.

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