Parent of a 4-yo researching elementary schools. I myself grew up quite some time ago in a small European country so I have no personal experience with US schools. We live in a big city, in a diverse and at the same time gentrifying neighborhood. I started chatting with other parents and neighbors and hear a lot about progressive, child-centered, learn-how-to-learn, etc, education. This all sounds interesting and like a good idea, but I have difficulty wrapping my mind around how teaching that's centered around a few big projects over a year will provide a general background knowledge. Then talking to a neighbor teacher I discovered that he is supposed to create his own curriculum - that's a new to me. I just started visiting schools and heard the phrase "we don't have a set curriculum". I mean I'm all in favor of lessons being adapted to individual kids' progress and strengths/weaknesses, but shouldn't there be a benchmark? What if the teacher my kid happens to have isn't good in developing curriculum? I'm happy to believe that the majority are equipped and willing, but surely some will have issues that distract them (a sick child, personal difficulties, whatever, it's life). Yesterday I picked "The knowledge gap" by Natalie Wexler from our library and I'm getting further alarmed.
I'm looking for:
a. a few resources to better understand the current education thinking, for example a couple of books that give a general background and also, where do I look for real data?
and b. some practical information. Is there anything I can take for granted in a school? How do I go around finding more about how my kid will be taught next year?
Submitted November 08, 2019 at 10:21AM by RoxaniG https://ift.tt/2WWXDB3
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