UFT: Where's the curriculum?

Maisie McAdoo:

A high-level gubernatorial commission on education reform on Oct. 16 got a rapid-fire earful from UFT President Michael Mulgrew, who warned that most teachers still do not have the curricula to prepare students for new state assessments this year that will incorporate challenging Common Core Learning Standards.

"Millions of students will be tested on a curriculum that was never supplied to their teachers," Mulgrew warned the commissioners, to a round of audience applause, in his allotted three minutes of testimony.

Standards are not curricula, he wrote in lengthier submitted testimony. If the state and the city impose a new set of standards without the supports in place to teach to them, students and teachers will flounder. Some schools encourage common curriculum planning, he said, but many others leave teachers to come up with it on their own.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at November 17, 2012 1:17 AM
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