Life vs the Curriculum

The recent Haiti earthquake led a few teachers to have some thoughts about what they were teaching, and whether they should be going with the current story.
I was alerted to this teacher's blog via Twitter. Have I mentioned before how useful it is to have this 'channel' ?

The teacher is Deven Black, who teaches in the Bronx, New York City.

The blog post is Life vs. the curriculum

It describes how the planned lesson was diverted towards something that was driven by the questions asked by the students...

With geography, particularly living geography, life is the curriculum
And if it isn't then it should be...

Comments

Unknown said…
Thanks for the heads-up. Very interesting, especially to get a view from State-side. Thanks Alan