April 24, 2006
Welcome to Transformative Curriculum Leadership
Posted by curriculumleadership under Welcome[3] Comments
If you are feeling that your teaching has become mechanical and technical as a result of an over-emphasis on having students pass tests, this exchange of ideas will interest you. In this forum, we have a place to discuss how to help students pass the tests while engaging in meaningful, relevant, and authentic experiences that build a love of learning for a lifetime. I invite you ask questions and to share your ideas so that we will deepen our understanding, enable and sustain the enactment of a curriculum decision-making cycle that emphasizes a balance of deep subject matter understanding, coupled with democratic self and social understanding.
-Rosemary Gornik
October 26th, 2006 at 10:44 pm
Just wondering what you mean when you say “democratic self,” particularly the word ‘democratic’.
Thanks!
November 29th, 2006 at 1:52 pm
In the words of Caroline Pryor (2002):
Simply put, Jefferson viewed democracy is a verb. Democracy, he would infer, is informed action, waiting within the experience of each citizen for acknowledgement and empowerment (West 1991; Schleifer 1991). This information may mean we need to revisit a long forgotten theme – that in colonial America, citizens were expected to act in dual roles: communal (helping one another) yet independent (entrepreneurial). In order to accomplish both tasks in a knowledgeable manner, the colonial citizen required some experience as a citizen leader as well as a citizen determinant of one’s one income.
Pryor, C. (2002). The mission of the scholar: research and practice. (Wolfe & Pryor, Eds.). New York: Lang.
March 29th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
I have been reading the book and I am stuck on how you would re-conceptualize some skill based standards such as;
Write a class email.
Create a video production.
and the like. The subject is technology the societal aspects come in that these projects require you to work with others but the self is how it relates to you. How do go about rewriting a standard like this?