Purpose+of+Schools

Include the names of all members of your group, and your responses to the following questions:

1. What are the challenges being presented? 2. What is the speaker or author suggesting the 21st century needs to respond to? 3. What ideas/suggestions is the author/speaker presenting? 4. As a group, come up with at least 10 critical questions that will h

Curriculum Questions Group 3: Nancy R, Gabrie W, Jasmine W, Mark W

"I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it but is forced by law to buy it... it's a losing proposition"

"Math is the vocabulary for your own intuition"

Teachers are doing math reasoning wrong. The 5 symptoms of this are: 1. Lack of initiative 2. Lack of perseverance 3. Lack of retention 4. Aversion to word problems 5. Eagerness for formula
 * 1. What are the challenges being presented?**

Insist on better curriculum - we need more patient problem solvers.We have the tools to create a high quality curriculum and the tools to distribute it.
 * 2. What is the speaker or author suggesting the 21st century needs to respond to?**

Teachers are encouraged to: 1. Use Multimedia 2. Encourage student intuition 3. Ask the shortest question you can 4. Let students build the problem 5. Be less helpful
 * 3. What ideas/suggestions is the author/speaker presenting?**


 * 4. As a group, come up with at least 10 critical questions that will help guide your research.**

1. How can we improve school curriculums to be engaging and relative to real life? 2. How should homework be used to enhance learning for students? or should it not be used at all? 3. How should subjects be chosen in order to be valuable to students later in life? 4. Why do current curriculums focus so much more on the "core" subjects? What caused this? 5. How can we incorporate all learning styles to make an effective curriculum for everyone? 6. How can we make school work interesting for students but still follow the necessary teachings in order for us to understand each topic? 7. Should all curriculums be standardized so that everyone learns the same things? 8. How can the curriculum be changed so students have as much choice in what they learn as possible? 9. Should we focus as much on the arts and physical education as the "Core" subjects? 10. Are "Core" subjects (such as math and science) really more important than things like Visual and Performing Arts and Physical Education?


 * __Julie M, Ben H, Ross C. & Wayne M.__**

**1. What are the challenges being presented?** Learning is not going deep enough. The textbooks and learning methods isn’t going deep into learning, they are being too helpful, a bunch of sub questions that aren’t really relevant. Tests are not focusing on problems, so students are afrid to take on challenges. Need more of the Performance Based Assesment idea.

**2. What is the speaker or author suggesting the 21st century needs to respond to?** In-depth learning, inquiry, performance based assessment  **3. What ideas/suggestions is the author/speaker presenting?** 1. Use Multimedia 2. Encourage student intuition 3. Ask the shortest question you can 4. Let students build the problem 5. Be less helpful  **1. What is the point of homework? Does it benefit children and help them succeed in school? 2. What are approaches to learning that enhance the vision of education? 3. What should schools be teaching students? 4. What do schools currently teach students? 5. What could help students to find ways to solve their own problems? 6. How could schools update to allow performance based assesment? 7. How would schools teach students if they did all the things they needed to do to live up to educational standards? 8. What helps engage students in their learning?** 9. Should schools be focusing on different subjects such as fine arts and teaching students to be creative and innovative rather than just teaching students the core subjects and preparing them to be an everyday worker in the world? Could they teach students social skills? 10. How could the schedule of the school be changed to better fit the needs of the students? What should be the purpose of the school schedule and good structure?
 * 4. As a group, come up with at least 10 critical questions that will help guide your research.**