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Many of you have seen already, but I got my hands on some of the proposals the UCP government's hand-picked curriculum advisers have made for changes to elementary social studies and fine arts curriculum. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/education-experts-slam-leaked-alberta-curriculum-proposals-1.5766570 #ableg #abed
I asked my Radio-Canada colleagues to help me out with how the proposals address Francophone perspectives. Here's @FrancoisJolyRC piece on that: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1742665/nouveau-programme-scolaire-francophones-autochtones-alberta #ableg #abed
These are long and complex documents, difficult to encapsulate in a news story, so I'm going to screen grab a few interesting bits, and would encourage you to look at the docs yourselves to get the full effect (links are embedded in the web story). #abed #ableg
Each document contains a preamble, written in the first person. The education minister's office would not confirm whose advice it is. They say the social studies docs contain recommendations from adviser Chris Champion and others. Here is an interesting snippet: #ableg #abed
The authors would like Grade 2s to know the architecture style of Parliament, but not necessarily fully understand what it's for. #ableg #abed
Here's what they say about conceptual understandings of land in Grade 1 geography. The crossed out material is from the 2018 curriculum drafts. They say it sounds like "mysticism." #ableg #abed
They would also like Grade 1 students to close their eyes and be able to recognize these sounds: #ableg #abed
The advisers' proposal to remove equity and fairness because it is politically partisan and charged #ableg #abed
