Alberta school boards have until May 15 to decide if they will test the government's new social studies curriculum and the province's education minister says there has been interest in trying it out.A group of educators looking at the most recent draft of Alberta's new social studies curriculum says it still does nothing to address the program's fundamental flaws.
He also says that the new curriculum"treats students as empty vessels to be filled with information."" no connections made to their already existing frames of reference, along with personal and collective identities, that shapes the way they come to new learning including discussion of issues in our world today."Nicolaides called social studies"a challenging subject" to teach and learn.
Discussions are still underway by many Alberta school boards about whether or not they will test drive the province's new curriculum, but Nicolaides said there"have been early indications" of interest in trying it out in 2024."There's no magic number of how many school boards I'd like to see but I would like to see an environment where we have some piloting done in our cities and our smaller communities to get a good, broad representative example of Alberta students.
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Shauna Owens-Krahn lives on Bear Mountain in Langford. Four times a day she takes her dogs for walks through the trails near her home and carries bear spray, just in case.The Saskatoon Blades saw an early three goal lead over the Moose Jaw Warriors disappear but were able to win 5-4 in overtime to even the Western Hockey League’s East Final at two games a piece Wednesday night.