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Monday, February 12, 2007

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This blog is not based on the articles that we've read but I have been wondering a lot about standardization. If schools were completely unsyncronized, a student is part of a family that moves a lot, it seems that this student is at a great disadvantage because it is likely that their edacation kind of scattered and is not in any logical order. No one would want a disjunct education for any child. However, it seems so hard to have syncronization in schools especially in a subject like music when some schools don't even have music programs. Many other things make it really hard to standardize schools. One thing that particularly came to mind was teachable moments. If you have one teachable moment every once and a while, it won't make that big of a difference in the curriculum that you cover. But perhaps you have a class that is curious and enthusiastic and teachable moments constantly occur, they do exist. As a teacher you wouldn't want to ignore the students' natural curiousity, but you need to stick with the curriculum standards...what do you do?

2 Comments:

At 1:13 PM, Blogger baje said...

This issue kind of leads me to think about our discussion in Praxis about the fundamentals in music education. I think that if National standards are developed which centre around the determined fundamentals, then at the local level, districts should be given the freedom to structure the teaching of these fundamentals in a way that caters specifically to the students and the area. I think MENC's National Standards do a decent job of capturing the fundamentals of music instruction.

I don't students curiosity would provide such a huge problem, because virtually anything connected to music would connect to these fundamentals. The mark of a good teacher would be the ability to capture what the students are interested in and make the connections to the standards, because they will inevitably exist.

 
At 1:57 PM, Blogger sam croce said...

I think that the national standards are a guideline to what students should be getting out of the classroom. I think that as a teacher we have to be able to connect the students curiosity to the national standards.

 

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