“No curriculum can be regarded as acceptable unless it can be shown to make a contribution to the teaching of thinking”
PART A
“No curriculum can be regarded as acceptable unless it can be shown to make a contribution to the teaching of thinking”
Nowadays, we notice that most of the graduates very difficult to get a job. That is because they lack of skills and knowledge to connect with the real world. Real world is full of challenges and difficulties.
Normally, this is the product by traditional curriculum but it does not mean that it is a poor way to produce good quality students. Last few decades, the education has been using traditional curricular. It is able to produce students that contribute a lot in this society. However, our society is in the progress of improving.
This is one of the reasons to change the style of teaching too.
We know that the reason why we send our children to school. That is because we want children to be able to learn the knowledge and skills to survive before they enter the society that connects with the real world. However, if they only depend on the traditional curriculum, that is not enough. It must incorporate with the thinking curriculum together too. Thinking curriculum is a way to provide a chance for the students to learn how to overcome learning stress and how to get a good solution without relaying on parents.
Traditional curriculum expects students to be able to learn the knowledge from the textbook.
However, how many percent of students are able to connect the knowledge with the real world? World changes from time to time. A teacher is responsible to teach students how to fish, and not feed fish to the students. Most of the teachers nowadays rush in completing syllabus; it will kill students’ idea. They want to complete the syllabus on time. In this case, the teachers are not contributing to students in letting them to have their own thinking. In long term, it will indirectly set a format in students’ mindset to only follow the instructions from teachers. Under this output, students lack the skills to survive. We must
“No curriculum can be regarded as acceptable unless it can be shown to make a contribution to the teaching of thinking”
Nowadays, we notice that most of the graduates very difficult to get a job. That is because they lack of skills and knowledge to connect with the real world. Real world is full of challenges and difficulties.
Normally, this is the product by traditional curriculum but it does not mean that it is a poor way to produce good quality students. Last few decades, the education has been using traditional curricular. It is able to produce students that contribute a lot in this society. However, our society is in the progress of improving.
This is one of the reasons to change the style of teaching too.
We know that the reason why we send our children to school. That is because we want children to be able to learn the knowledge and skills to survive before they enter the society that connects with the real world. However, if they only depend on the traditional curriculum, that is not enough. It must incorporate with the thinking curriculum together too. Thinking curriculum is a way to provide a chance for the students to learn how to overcome learning stress and how to get a good solution without relaying on parents.
Traditional curriculum expects students to be able to learn the knowledge from the textbook.
However, how many percent of students are able to connect the knowledge with the real world? World changes from time to time. A teacher is responsible to teach students how to fish, and not feed fish to the students. Most of the teachers nowadays rush in completing syllabus; it will kill students’ idea. They want to complete the syllabus on time. In this case, the teachers are not contributing to students in letting them to have their own thinking. In long term, it will indirectly set a format in students’ mindset to only follow the instructions from teachers. Under this output, students lack the skills to survive. We must