Hi Andrea and others,
Our goal is to have the students control the
curriculum, but we also have set up a framework so
that teachers have something to work within.  For
example, students vote on topics they want to study
and have input into what kind of projects are done in
class.

There's a great book, Learners' Lives As Curriculum,
that I suggest, as well as Elsa Auerbach's text,
Making Meaning, Making Change.

Hope that helps,
Valley Peters
Teton Literacy Program
Jackson, WY


--- Andrea Wilder <andreawilder at comcast.net> wrote:


> Colleagues--

> 

> I've got a question which I am chewing away on,

> maybe you can help.

> 

> Who controls your curriculum?  You?  Students? 

> Textbooks? Online  

> resources or texts?

> 

> I have spent a long time learning about reading and

> different programs,  

> but I have never really focused on curriculum.

> 

> When I was a schoolteacher I taught my own

> curriculum, following  

> certain broad outlines.  No textbooks.  The

> "performance framework" all  

> teachers measured the curriculum against reflected

> the best of what I  

> would call Renaissance learning--deeply humanistic, 

> We made our own  

> curricula.

> 

> But with adults, it's different, isn't it?  Adult

> subjects for adults?

> 

> I would really appreciate your thoughts on this

> topic.

> 

> Andrea

> 

> On Mar 20, 2006, at 8:13 AM, Wheeler, Tamela wrote:

> 

> > Actually, my students wrote essays on the potato

> famine last week after

> > reading an article on it.  Good subject.

> >

> > Tamela Wheeler, ESOL, Pellissippi State Technical

> Community College

> >

> > -----Original Message-----

> > From: englishlanguage-bounces at nifl.gov

> > [mailto:englishlanguage-bounces at nifl.gov] On

> Behalf Of Carole Bos

> > Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 2:09 AM

> > To: englishlanguage at nifl.gov;

> familyliteracy at nifl.gov

> > Subject: [EnglishLanguage 307] "Irish Potato

> Famine" with Primary

> > Sources

> >

> >

> > Because today is St. Patrick's Day, educators and

> their students may be

> > thinking about Irish history.  One of Ireland's

> pivotal events was the

> > loss of its potato crop in the mid-nineteenth

> century.  To this day,

> > Ireland has not recovered from the loss of its

> people - through

> > immigration and death - caused by the "potato

> famine."  Students can

> > learn what happened with primary sources from the

> Irish National

> > Archives and from contemporary

> drawings/newspapers.

> >

>

http://www.awesomestories.com/disasters/great_hunger/

> 

> > great_hunger_ch1.ht

> > m

> >

> > The website http://www.awesomestories.com/ is free

> for all educators,

> > schools and libraries.  Simply request an academic

> membership with this

> > sign-up form. 

> http://www.awesomestories.com/group_signup.php

> >

> > Carole Bos

> > Grand Valley State University

> > Dean's Advisory Board

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

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