Ontario's new Health & Phys Ed Curriculum needed
This may come as a surprise to many of my regular readers, but I am actually in favour of Ontario’s new health and physical education curriculum (H/T Jack’s Newswatch) and hope that Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak does not come out against it. True, earlier in the spring of 2010, Hudak saw the McGuinty Liberals using the sex education component as [...]
The challenge to define curriculum "basics"
Arguments have been going on for a very long time now about what is or is not a curriculum “basic.” Yet, many intuitively feel (particularly parents and grandparents) that there are not enough basics going on in our schools today — no matter where we live in the Western world. But is that actually true? [...]
Defining our personal "back to basics"
When choosing a university major or college/retraining program, Joseph Campbell suggested we deliberately using our talents and what we enjoy doing. So, when you hear someone say that we have “to get back to our basics,” what exactly does it mean? What it means to me, for example, as a retired educator, is the traditional basics in the school curriculum [...]
"The basics" & society's changing expectations
If parents and educators want to stress more of “the basics” in public schools, something is going to have to give because the school day and the school curriculum are just too crowded. It’s odd, really, how people will complain that the education system does not respond to public input and pressure when, in actual fact, [...]
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