Teaching Strategies

Anticipatory Reading Guide - Done Too Much, Much Too Young

Based on a Listener article:
Done too much, much too young
Today's school curriculum is fuller than ever, but the school day isn't any longer. Should we be teaching less, better?

	OPINION		FINDING		Evidence: Explain in your own words
	Agree	Disagree	Agree	Disagree
1. Ruth Sutton, the English expert quoted, doesn’t know the New Zealand education system well.
2. School curricula are too full.
3. Ruth Sutton thinks the opportunities for ‘deep learning’ are too few in New Zealand classrooms.
4.Education systems around the world have different problems.
5. School assessments don’t always measure student learning.
6. Rote learning has no place in New Zealand classrooms.
7. The New Zealand Curriculum/Te Marautanga o Aotearoa project will be able to fix up the curricula.

Adapted from Aida Walqui’s work.