Well, this is a first. As of last week, I was proud just to know how to email and now I have a blog! I have started this blog for my very first class in education. It is called Curricular Planning and Development for Childhood Education and my professor is Dr. Ludmila Smirnova. I am a little intimidated because of all the technology that is intertwined with the class but I know I have to embrace it sometime so it might as well be now.
Class was very interesting this week. Since this is my first education class, I really didn't know what to expect and anything new is exciting. We had our first "micro teacher" who taught the first five minutes of class. She handled it very well, putting us all at ease who must follow her. Dr. Smirnova also talked about different types of curriculum following up on our reading of Curriculum Index by Leslie Owen Wilson. It was very interesting to see curriculum not only as written but as "anything and everything that teaches a lesson"(Wilson). There is curriculum that is written as formal instruction. Then there is curriculum learned from a child's family, peers,church and neighborhood in their daily lives. The surprising one to me was the null curriculum which refers to what is left out of our written or formal curriculum. There are many other forms of curriculum, all adding to the important social and emotional lessons our children learn everyday. It is important for me, as a future teacher, to learn all the ways in which my students are influenced. I will be interested in learning what I, as a teacher, can do when some of the outside curriculum learned is negative.
Next we are learning about educational philosophies behind every school system and which philosophies are best used to educate our students. I'll let you know....
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