[EDEC 260] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (43 pages long!)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Curriculum and Instruction
• Course: EDEC 260
• Professor: Ronald Morris

Document Summary

Goal is to transmit essential skills and subjects to the young so cultural continuity is maintained and preserved. Teaching skills and subjects systematically and sequentially. Insisting on high standards of academic achievement. Learning requires discipline, hard work and effort. Traditional reading, writing and arithmetic in order to graduate. Nation at risk forced the creation of a more academically focused curriculum, high standards of academic achievement and improved classroom discipline. Standards movement: benchmarks used to measure academic achievement in a given area, no child left behind. An example of this was standardized tests to determine if students are achieving at the set standard or if they are below or above it. Critics say that doing so makes teachers teach to test instead of providing a general and well-rounded education to students. Goal is to prepare students for the future by teaching them well defined subjects and skills. They should be taught in a sequence and cumulative manner.