Colleagues--

I've got a question which I am chewing away on, maybe you can help.

Who controls your curriculum?  You?  Students?  Textbooks? Online  
resources or texts?

I have spent a long time learning about reading and different programs,  
but I have never really focused on curriculum.

When I was a schoolteacher I taught my own curriculum, following  
certain broad outlines.  No textbooks.  The "performance framework" all  
teachers measured the curriculum against reflected the best of what I  
would call Renaissance learning--deeply humanistic,  We made our own  
curricula.

But with adults, it's different, isn't it?  Adult subjects for adults?

I would really appreciate your thoughts on this topic.

Andrea

On Mar 20, 2006, at 8:13 AM, Wheeler, Tamela wrote:


> Actually, my students wrote essays on the potato famine last week after

> reading an article on it.  Good subject.

>

> Tamela Wheeler, ESOL, Pellissippi State Technical Community College

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> Subject: [EnglishLanguage 307] "Irish Potato Famine" with Primary

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> Because today is St. Patrick's Day, educators and their students may be

> thinking about Irish history.  One of Ireland's pivotal events was the

> loss of its potato crop in the mid-nineteenth century.  To this day,

> Ireland has not recovered from the loss of its people - through

> immigration and death - caused by the "potato famine."  Students can

> learn what happened with primary sources from the Irish National

> Archives and from contemporary drawings/newspapers.

> http://www.awesomestories.com/disasters/great_hunger/ 

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