Curriculum

I really like the facets of curriculum that were defined in our reading. Curriculum that is Important, Focused, Engaging, Demanding, and Scaffolded. It really just wraps everything that we learn in our methods classes right up. We have discussed those 5 parts seperately, but it was really nice to have all of those elements brought together and to see how important each one really is. And once again with these chapters, it showed the concept, but then broke it down for us to take it from rationale to practice. Not only is what we need to learn explicitly explained to us, but then we are given examples and scenarios. Without even saying it, this book is giving us a good model of teaching. I also liked that the chapters carried the theme of the fox-taming teachers. This also showed another good teaching practice without saying it by further linking ideas that we had already learned. The stuff that we are reading for this class relates to everything that i have ever learned about teaching and as i read it i feel like i already knew what they were talking about, but now i have a reminder of what to focus on and how to do it. Not that i don't enjoy my reading for other classes... but i feel that the reading for this class is so much more relevant and will help me to succeed no matter what content i am teaching.