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“What is happening in Alberta?” My Ontario friends often ply me with questions like these, knowing I’ll give them the Coles Notes of my province’s current events. But recently there was really only one thing they were asking about. The provincial government just dropped a draft of our new provincial elementary curriculum and it’s a dumpster fire that man can t (or shouldn t) look away from. Whenever the word curriculum comes up in the news cycle, I get a bit nerdy. This is my jam! I was a high school social studies and English teacher before my second kid was born, and I have a master’s degree in education. But I take no glee in analyzing the chaotic learning outcomes in this draft. To quote Dr. Carla Peck, a University of Alberta education professor specializing in social studies, “the fatal flaw is in the overall design and intent of the curriculum; it cannot be fixed by tweaking it.”
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Black Gold School Division staff will continue to review Alberta’s draft K-6 curriculum after receiving largely negative feedback from parents and staff.
“We’re taking a really close look at it. It’s only been out a couple days and we were out on spring break so we didn’t get a real good chance to look at it. We’re probably going to be spending the next week-and-a-half going deeper, finding out what the issues are and then seeing what we can salvage out of it,” said Superintendent Bill Romanchuk.
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Alberta K-6 students will learn about financial literacy, computer science and sexual consent under a new draft curriculum that will pilot this fall.
Education Minister Adriana LaGrange unveiled the plan on Mar. 29, which will replace some programs of study that are more than 30 years old.
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“In the last election, we heard loud and clear from parents across Alberta that it was time for a renewed focus on essential knowledge and skills,” LaGrange said. That will include things like budgeting, computer coding and public speaking.
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