What should i be?

The second geog lesson touched on the issue of curriculum.Dr Chang was trying to put across to us the need for a curriculum and what it served to fulfill.i personally felt that a curriculum was put in place to allow all schools to follow a standardised format. This would ensure that students throughout the same level would have covered similar essential concepts.

Later that day i bumped into Dr Chang at the gym and he commented on the boring nature of a lesson based on curriculum. he did mention that the question posed by a fellow coursemate(forgot his name!) saved the class from the realms of boredom.

I personally felt that the question did spark off an interesting discussion in class. what constitutes a good geog teacher? does completing all the topics stated on the SOW, striving to attain higher percentages of students passing distinction, improving one's school ranking, getting into the good books of superiors equate to a good geog teacher?

There exist many teachers who strongly believe in this notion and are faithfully working in that direction. There exist schools, who are so preoccupied with maintaining their standings in the rankings, who preach teachers to follow suit and not to be concerned with covering the 'bigger concept' or attaining 'high order learning'.

To a certain extent,I felt that this discussion sort of appealed to my conscience. As a trainee teacher which path would i choose or would the competitive school environment coerce me into adopting one that i conscientiously don't desire?


nagulan