Survey or Curriculum Thought Provokers

 

Directions: Leave the ones you agree with and cross out the ones you disagree with.

Curriculum is

1. A curriculum that concentrates on teaching and learning is in the best interest of the students.
2. Standards are focused to educate students for the real world.
3. Teachers should be thought of as mainly a technocrat.
4. Teachers should be thought of as mainly an automaton.
5. Teachers should be thought of as mainly a trainer.
6. The way that you understand the world is better than the way that your parents or grandparents understood the world.
7. The way that you relate to people is better for the world than the way your parents or grandparents related to people.
8. Children and adolescents should be taught to think on their own.
9. Children and adolescents should be indoctrinated into the ways of the culture.
10. Children and adolescents should be trained into the ways of the culture.
11. Children and adolescents should be educated so they will be able to create a culture.
12. School is for knowledge making.
13. School is for knowledge getting.
14. Education is best thought of as a ladder of opportunity.
15. Education is best thought of as a highway of opportunity.
16. Children should be treated as clay to be molded.
17. We know what children should learn.
18. We know what children will need to know in 20 years.
19. An educational objective is an oxymoron.
20. Human development is potential to be developed by the teacher, parent, employer, state, or nation.
21. Human development is to be achieved by the individual child to control their destiny.
22. Students should learn for the sake of learning.
23. Education is to maximize the individual's control over society.
24. There is a basic set of knowledge that all students need to know.
25. All students need to have access to the same educational opportunities.
26. All students need to develop certain skills and knowledge that will enable them to contribute to the continued growth of technological and industrial society.
27. We should insist that all pupils have access to the same knowledge.
28. We should tailor educational experiences to suit the individual needs of all pupils.
29. Pupils should have opportunities to develop intellectual and moral qualities to meaningfully participate in a democracy.
30. If children find that learning is fun, they will be successful.

Curriculum is

 

How do your ideas of curriculum fit with your ideas of education and teaching?

 

 

 

Dr. Robert Sweetland's notes