Curriculum design: Task 1

After reading the articles, Applebee's curriculum map is ideal and allows studetns to voice what they already know through conversation within the classroom. Ideally providng real-world experiences and connecting it to the core curriculum would be awesome but not always possible in the general eduaction setting. In my multi-handicap room, I have to prepare my students with real-world experiences in hope of providing them the skills to get a job after high school. Obviously, not all my students will be able to possess a job but I need provide any and all opportunities for my students to be successful outside of the educational process.

Wiggins discussed making students responsible and question everything which is seen, heard, and/or read. I love thought process of this type of curriculum design but I am not completely sure this could be intergrated as the norm. Within our school, our curriculum is design within our department. All teacher within the department are teaching the same thing at the same time. Im not saying all teachers, but most teachers do not like to be question regarding their teachings. I believe this particular curriculum would teach our students to think for themsleves and not believe everything they see and here on the television and/or what theor friends may tell them. When evidence is need to prove your statement, thats not all bad.

As I discussed above, within our school our departments map out the curriculum. If teachers are teaching the same subject, they should teach the same thing and cover the material at the same pace. The use of flashbacks and other review techniques should also be similar. Wraga discussed having common goals for each subject across core curriculum areas, this has been a huge undertaking for our school. While common goals was created as teachers we also have to attach the knowledge to relateable material which the students can connect too. This has been a work in progress but the only way to get our studetns to learn, retain, and apply learned knowledge is to make it conectable to they lives. This is not easy and difficult to do but is needed.

After reading these articles, I'm really in a special situation where I have several individuals and if i get them to be a bagger at krogers, thats a success story. There is a blended learning of these articles currently going on. I understand the importance of connecting real-world experiences to our general education students and honestly I believe thats the best way to teach and nuture the minds of the future.