Week Two
Reading response:
- Respond in your blog to the following writing prompt: Curriculum development from a traditionalist perspective is widely used across schools in Canada and other countries. Think about:
(a) The ways in which you may have experience the Tyler rationale in your own schooling;
(b) What are the major limitations of the Tyler rationale/what does it make impossible; and
(c) What are some potential benefits/what is made possible. Be sure to refer to the assigned article in your post; you may also include information from lecture if you wish.
I have experienced the Tyler rationale in my school as classrooms mainly focus on the content being taught, the aspect of drilling in the information into your head, giving an assignment or two then being able to spew all the information out onto a test paper and being graded on it. Schooling typically lacks the relationship between students and learning, it really only focuses on the students and teaching which is two completely different avenues. Especially in younger grades we need to build a working relationship between students and the knowledge they are being taught. As younger students we crave for a bond/relationship between student, teacher and knowledge.
Some major limitations of the Tyler rationale are that he creates major limitations between student and teacher. The teacher is viewed as a reel, they must open the curriculum book out and play it out the same way every time with little emotion or passion for the subject. Because of the way teachers are thought to act in his rationale, the students end up with little to no voice. When they teachers act as a reel, having to stay on time and continue moving from subject to subject the students are unable to advocate for their learning. They cannot ask questions which limits their knowledge they may have received if their learning was delivered differently. The students are told how to think, feel and act rather than discovering their emotions on their own. This may cause some students internal turmoil and cause a blow up disrupting a class more than if the teacher was to go off script.
Some benefits of the Tyler rationale is that all students would get the same education throughout the school system, or even throughout the country. If a student is moving from location to location due to family matters, the students learning is not inhibited. They can move from province to province or one school to the next in the same division and be taught the same thing, whereas that is not the case today in schools. Having a standard curriculum would allow students to have an uninterrupted education, allowing them to grow and learn more efficiently.
- Respond in your blog to the following writing prompt: Curriculum development from a traditionalist perspective is widely used across schools in Canada and other countries. Think about:
(a) The ways in which you may have experience the Tyler rationale in your own schooling;
(b) What are the major limitations of the Tyler rationale/what does it make impossible; and
(c) What are some potential benefits/what is made possible. Be sure to refer to the assigned article in your post; you may also include information from lecture if you wish.
I have experienced the Tyler rationale in my school as classrooms mainly focus on the content being taught, the aspect of drilling in the information into your head, giving an assignment or two then being able to spew all the information out onto a test paper and being graded on it. Schooling typically lacks the relationship between students and learning, it really only focuses on the students and teaching which is two completely different avenues. Especially in younger grades we need to build a working relationship between students and the knowledge they are being taught. As younger students we crave for a bond/relationship between student, teacher and knowledge.
Some major limitations of the Tyler rationale are that he creates major limitations between student and teacher. The teacher is viewed as a reel, they must open the curriculum book out and play it out the same way every time with little emotion or passion for the subject. Because of the way teachers are thought to act in his rationale, the students end up with little to no voice. When they teachers act as a reel, having to stay on time and continue moving from subject to subject the students are unable to advocate for their learning. They cannot ask questions which limits their knowledge they may have received if their learning was delivered differently. The students are told how to think, feel and act rather than discovering their emotions on their own. This may cause some students internal turmoil and cause a blow up disrupting a class more than if the teacher was to go off script.
Some benefits of the Tyler rationale is that all students would get the same education throughout the school system, or even throughout the country. If a student is moving from location to location due to family matters, the students learning is not inhibited. They can move from province to province or one school to the next in the same division and be taught the same thing, whereas that is not the case today in schools. Having a standard curriculum would allow students to have an uninterrupted education, allowing them to grow and learn more efficiently.