What has your experience been with regard to the construction of the curriculum within your school district? Did you feel that it was a helpful experience that enabled you to learn about the scope and sequence of that curriculum? How were the meetings structured? What did you learn by participating in these curriculum design meetings? Could the experience have been a better learning one for you as a professional? How so? Or.....would you have liked to sit on a curriculum committee and have never been asked?
For those of you who are not yet teaching........... when you "land your first teaching job" what would you like to learn about the curriculum structure within your district? Do you think that knowledge of the curriculum that is covered at other grade levels is at all helpful to you? Why?
Personally, a lot of what we have been learning about curriculum these last couple of weeks has been very new to me. I am learning that curriculum should build upon from grade to grade and that there is debate whether or not curriculum should be the same across the U.S. When I begin searching for a job, I definitely want to be knowledgeable about how my districts curriculum is structured. I think that knowing the ins and outs of your grades curriculum will help me develop my own philosophy teaching style. Additionally, I think that it is important to go through the curriculums of other grades. For instance, if I was teaching first grade I would read through the Kindergarten and second grade curriculum. By doing this I would know the material that students should know already and what they need to know for the following grade. Overall, curriculum is important to follow and not being aware what is taught in other grades would make other teachers jobs more difficult when the students go to them the following year.
ReplyDeleteI feel that a lot of what we have learned about curriculum in this class has really opened my eyes to a world I did not know a lot about. When I do land my first teaching job, I want to make sure I am aware of the type of curriculum my school district has in place, who is able to see it, what resources are in it, and the structure of it. I also think that it is important for me to be able to understand the curriculum of other grades other than just the grade I get a job teaching in. I should definitely know what curriculum the students are learning before coming to me, being that I should know how students were prepared for my class and what they do/do not know. It is also important that I find out what they will be learning in the curriculum the following year because I want to make sure I am able to prepare them for that year.
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