October 21, 2007
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Topic: 6 weeks in
I’m about 6-weeks into my 2nd year of teaching, and there’s a lot to say. I have so much to learn, but what’s absolutely killing me is curriculum. My school is unique in that they give teachers a great deal of autonomy to create curriculum. The problem is, to do this succefully a lot has to be done in the summer. There is simply not enough time to synthesize the various standards, teachers manuals, internet materials, and other resources, to develop the type of curriculum that an open-curriculum school such as mine ought to have.
I am putting a lot on my shoulder this year. I am in a unique position where I can implement a lot of the ideas that I’ve developed about education of the last few years, but am also burdened by being new, by having a lot of theory and practical pedagogy to learn, and by not having the time to sit down with other teachers to put together this curriculum.
