According to Levin, the school curricula is developed and implemented by many, many ‘experts’. These experts are government officials, textbook companies/regular companies and teachers. This surprised me because I feel like this a lot of people, especially people who aren’t in the classroom, to have a say in what our curriculum has become. This is frustrating because teachers have a lot of expectations and need to reach these goals, but they have only some voice in what they need to teach. Unfortunately, the students are left out, so the only voices in which they have are through their teachers. Teachers have the best understanding of what they are able to teach and what their students need in terms of curriculum. Personally, I never understood how curriculum was made and I’m glad I understand now, especially because I want to be an educator, I should know how it works. As stated before, I am surprised by the lack of student voices and how teachers don’t have a louder voice. This may be off topic, but I am also surprised that throughout, sex education versus religion comes up a lot. Is there no room for both? Sex education is protection and necessary, kids are going to do it, no matter what.
After reading both articles, I believe that a lot of people might complain that Treaty Education has too much of a place in the curriculum, as learned after the lecture. However, while I was growing up I believe that it should have been in our curriculum SO MUCH more. Unfortunately, there was information we learned that repeated itself every single year, until I moved into Regina in grade 10. Only until I took accelerated history, I learned more in depth information about the unfortunate history of Canada, which I believe is far too long. I am fortunate enough to receive that information and to have a teacher who was willing to go as in depth as they did. Unfortunately, I don’t think many people who didn’t take the same class as I did, got the same information. I believe it is important to discuss because it’s an important part of our history and it can’t be ignored. History has a tendency to repeat itself, let’s be educated to it won’t.
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