tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post1207882702171236192..comments2024-03-28T00:28:06.035+13:00Comments on leading and learning: The 'new' curriculum and where to from here?Bruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-4227492053860940292007-08-17T15:47:00.000+12:002007-08-17T15:47:00.000+12:00The Emperor has certainly changed his clothes but ...The Emperor has certainly changed his clothes but the learning objectives remain. Evidently , although reduced, they even more 'hardwired'!<BR/><BR/>'Rich topics' need to be applied to literacy and maths, as you say. And numeracy is overdone!'Learnacy' is what we should aim for!<BR/><BR/>Please don't start 'unpacking' the 'key competencies' - all the best advice is to see them 'infused' through all teaching; to be seen as what students might achieve when they leave your school/class. Good inquiry based teaching - using a co-consructive model, will achieve them by default. Self management applies to any age - you would just expect more of it with maturity.Bruce Hammondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-86346156764209587652007-08-17T12:59:00.000+12:002007-08-17T12:59:00.000+12:00It is great to see the comments from Mary and the ...It is great to see the comments from Mary and the Minister recognising that the Curric needed a major refocus. The story of the Emperors New Clothes springs to mind Bruce and how it has taken a few commonsense people to stand up and say enough is enough. We all want a curric with real life application - the next challenge is to take on the propoganda coming out about the Numeracy Project and getting lots of real life context back into Maths. <BR/>I am still frustrated by the Key Competencies though - for something as essential and KEY as these, what are the MOE doing about unpacking them? We have spent time at our school looking at what Self Management looks like at different Year levels only for ERO to say "thats great but its not normed so what value is it?" <BR/>What wasted man hours, yet again, if we are left to try and reinvent the wheel individually.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-64239566429512994992007-08-16T12:50:00.000+12:002007-08-16T12:50:00.000+12:00I feel that common sense will prevail and that tho...I feel that common sense will prevail and that those advocating 'atomizing' the key competencies, in an attempt to assess them, will not win the day.<BR/><BR/>As for the 'second half' I have yet to see exactly what it is all about except that the learning objectives, if 'slimmed down', have not gone away and have been also 'hardened up'. <BR/><BR/>Whatever , key competencies need realistic contexts to be implemented. We need product via process, not just 'woolly ideas', if we want in depth understnding.Bruce Hammondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-54277285437632452007-08-13T15:21:00.000+12:002007-08-13T15:21:00.000+12:00Thank you Bruce for sharing with us ideas that are...Thank you Bruce for sharing with us ideas that are most important. Sounds like a very worthwhile conference.<BR/><BR/>The 'second half' - the now more defined learning objectives - will hold some challenges for us. The advice about not 'atomizing' and asessing all the 'deconstructed bits' of the key competencies is good news.<BR/><BR/>There are already 'advisers' out there doing just this!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com