What would you do without curriculum?

The older interface of Children's books (The Guardian)

The curriculum has advantages and disadvantages. For example, it helps us to know what children have to learn in each level but, at the same time, it can “oblige” to follow them.

Nevertheless, if there wasn’t curriculum, in Secondary School I would try to think what is necessary that pupils know. I would plan that and I would show them. I would explain them that I think that the presented information is what I need that is necessary but that we have to think about a project to make them in each trimester. One of them could be a cultural magazine where we write about all that we have learnt.

For instance, we can be inspired by The Guardian’s childhood and youth section. It is a section where we can find all kind of information about infancy reading. It is made up of different sections with a big amount of information, activities and literary suggestions. It had different parts as 

• Top topics: an espace where you can find the most popular topics.

• Interactive Story: a section where you can participet in the story creation.

• Latest readers reviews: an espace dedicated to readers.

• The book doctor: a part where you can find the experts' opinions.

• Latest quizzes: the best interviews.

• Meet members: to connect with other members.

• Video and audio: a section where you can watching videos or listening records about books or literary activities.

• Parents zone: the parent's area.

• Etc

Although it has change a little bit, we can take excellent ideas from this allocation. I think that we can use this idea to adapt it for our subject. For example, we can create a website or a blog with the contents worked in class. In this way, children will be more motivated because they have to follow these steps:

In addition, they will look information up in their classmate’s sites or entrances in communal site. Therefore, this can increase the feedback between pupils and strengthen their best side.

 

Regarding to assessment, I would make a rubric where the criteria were detailed. In this way, pupils could know the objectives and what I hope of them. I really like that in this project we work CLIL and we can assess the knowledge of contents and the expression. 

Link: The new children's books page   (I think that It was better the oldest page).