Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id eAM5S9900954; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 00:28:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 00:28:10 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <6c.51e8bc0.274cb2af@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Wesclarksn@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:5315] Re: curriculum number six X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL for Macintosh sub 28 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 1414 Lines: 23 Shall we add number six to the list of curriculums/curricula? How about the perceived curriculum? The sum total that is learned by each student. It has to be filtered through past experiences, personal talents, and even the current living conditions. In my former incarnation I taught middle school ESL & math classes during the day and adult classes (ABE and immigration/citizenship programs) at night. Currently I teach adults (teachers) about instructional methodology, ESL instrution, and for Gifted programs. Incedently, I see very little difference in the learning styles of the adult immigrants and the university educated teachers, but that is another topic all together. All learners, but especially adults, come to class with goals and expectations. These must be integrated into all the other issues that make up the final curriculum, taht we teach, as David's 6th curriculum indicates. But after all this negotiation has occured, something must happen in the brain of the student that changes the very nature of the mind. That's probably why I used to get headaches while attending language school in Madrid, Spain. Something was happening to my mind and I would never be the same.... (Shades of paranoia and bad science fiction movies).... But this must surely be the ultimate curriculum, this I firmly believe, unless, of course, someone else comes up with number seven.
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