Task One

Hello classmates. This is my blog on the task curriculum and design. I hope I am doing this right.

· Why do we need to consider curriculum?
A curriculum helps teachers with guiding principles and, help teachers make decisions about what to teach when. Experienced teachers uses curriculum. They reflected in their teaching and decided if a specific concept is understood. A curriculum also creates a sense of unity and coherence across a semester or a year.

· What model of curriculum do you feel best fits your current role? What model are you most attracted to? What would be your preference?
My current model of curriculum that best fits me now is a cumbersome of curriculum. In my district, we use curriculum planning. In my classroom, I use curriculum as a conversational domain. I was really interested in the “modern” form of curriculum. I am all about the kinetic learning with my kindergartners. I do believe in inquiry, and in having students want to learn. Students should have fun learning.

· Wiggins talks about the need for a “modern” curriculum- what could this look like? Do you buy that we need a new approach to curriculum? Why or why no?
Wiggins talks about the need for a “modern” curriculum, and I agree with him. If students are not interested or engaged in a lesson they will not learn it. I was a product of the memorize and then forget it teaching curriculum, and it did not work for me. I feel if I was taught a more modern way of teaching, I would have been able to understand a lot more of the content.
A “modern” curriculum could look like having the students involved in their learning. Students uses guided questions, hands-on activities, and inquiry to learn. Students need to gain control over the resources and be involved in their own learning, and be able to apply it to their every day situations. Students need to learn how to enjoy learning.