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By: Roxanne Putro, Jessica Huff, and Kaylyn White
National Curriculum
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What are “National Standards”?
• Different view of what they want to create – or protest:
• Some say it is setting standards for the content of what is taught
• Others say it is increasing the rigor of instruction
• Others say it means “standardizing” what knowledge is taught
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What is National Curriculum?
• A framework used by all maintained schools to ensure that teaching and learning is balanced and consistent.
• A set of educational standards devised by a central government to be implemented in government-funded schools.
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What is National Curriculum?
• Schools are free to plan and organize teaching and learning in the way that best meets the needs of their pupils (in the UK)
• Many schools use the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) Schemes of Work to plan their curriculum. These help to translate the National Curriculum’s objectives into teaching and learning activities.
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What is National Curriculum?
• As we speak, there is a coalition drafting standards in math and reading and putting those drafts trhough a process of “validation” by a committee.
• Next step - Write standards for each grade level.
• Decide whether the coalition moves on to create a common test for each grade in math and reading and advances to other subject areas.
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National Curriculum Essential Questions • Culturally would a national curriculum work for
the United States?
• Is the United States too diverse to have a national curriculum?
• How is the size of the US a factor in relationship to the control that local authorities feel they need in setting up a national curriculum?
• How can schools serve the highest and lowest achievers?
• How can we develop high-quality content standards and tests?
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Whose responsibility is it?
• Curriculum within public elementary education is determined by individual school districts.
•School district selects curriculum guides and textbooks that are reflective of a state's learning standards and benchmarks for a given grade level.
•Learning Standards are the goals by which states and school districts must meet adequate yearly progress (AYP) as mandated by No Child Left Behind.
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National curriculum systems generally require some type of assessment or standardized testing every few years.
Rather than assessing a student's intelligence, the primary goal of the assessment tests are to measure how well the teacher or school is meeting the aims set out by the curriculum.
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Teach to the Test
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Teach to the Test
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Thinking Outside the Box
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Pros of a National Curriculum
Allow state by state comparison.
•Certification for teaching standards and state qualifications will be the same across the board.
Could see where strengths/weakness areas are in certain areas of the country.
•One version of a curriculum is easier to deal with on a national level than 50 state versions.
• Create an environment where students learn together about a shared concern.
• Enable students to mix self-interest and apply knowledge to solve problems.
• Make learning relevant to real issues. provide a well-assessed general base of knowledge for all students
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Cons of a National Curriculum• Disagreement between lawmakers
Who decides what is important/ what is not important
• Hidden Curriculums differ State by state curriculum lines differ
• Federal Government power Where their funding should go Too much power to people that are not involved with
teaching
• Different Cultures make up United States Different cultures value different aspects of education
- May not be tailored to the needs and heritage of specific students.
• Other aspects of education need to become uniform
- Starting date, days of school, salaries
• Educators need more training.
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National Curriculum and Individualism & Equality
• Article: “liberationists: “liberate students from oppressive forces in schools and society.”
- “reconstructionists: use schools to criticize and remake society.”
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National Curriculum
• “The statutory curriculum should establish an entitlement for all children and promote high standards.”
http://curriculum.qcda.gov.uk/new-primary-curriculum/aims-values-and-purposes/index.aspx
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Equality, Individualism, and Individuality
• A common curriculum is not a necessary implication of “cultural literacy,” but it comes into the picture if an entire populace is to be raised to a minimum level of literacy. It is also the best way to avoid one of the most damaging divisions in a society, that between the prosperous and the poor.
Hirsch Jr, E.D. The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools, Yale University Press, 2009.
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Extensions of National Curriculum
• Will the national curriculum maintain its motives?
• Will it be criticized and even visciously attacked?
• Will it provide opportunities for out-of-school education?
• Will it accommodate ALL students after schooling as far as work?
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Further Questions…
• Can administrators cope with the shift of power to teachers and students?
• How do you address concerns about not following a sequential curriculum?
• How do you make people understand that separate subjects are tools that are use to build knowledge, not ends unto themselves?
• How do we test this curriculum?
• Using this approach forces us to question our central American values of competition and individualism.
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Other Sources
Barton, Paul E. “National Education Standards: To Be or Not to Be?”, Educational Leadership, 67, April 2010.
Hirsch Jr, E.D. The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools, Yale University Press, 2009.
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/Bridging-Differences/2009/03/march_12_2009_dear_diane.html
http://curriculum.qcda.gov.uk/new-primary-curriculum/aims-values-and-purposes/index.aspx
McClusky, Neal. “Behind the Curtain: Assessing the Case for National Curriculum Standards”, Policy Analysis, 17, Feb 17, 2010
Smith, Marshall S. “A National Curriculum in the United States?” EJ432699, Educational Leadership 49, 1, 74-81, September, 1991.