What if teachers were allowed to build their own curriculum? Would you be interested?

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We do build our own curriculum at my school and I LOVE the autonomy. It’s collaborative with my team so everything is peer-evaluated before it’s written and given to admin.

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Many are afforded this opportunity. Not sure about the elementary level, but at the secondary level there is a lot of wiggle room pending content area. I teach social studies 9-12 in NY and have a TON of autonomy!

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If I didn’t build and find my own stuff I would have no curriculum because my school gives me really old books a few sparse workbooks from 20 years ago.

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I do create my own curriculum. I use the available books if I cannot order my own books and I discuss with my colleagues so we can be aligned as best as possible but we co-create or create our own curriculum.

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I have been building my own curriculum for years. While I love the freedom to gear my curriculum to the needs of my students, I am constantly second guessing myself, particularly when it comes to writing. My strengths are in literature and reading. Teaching writing is difficult for me and has made building curriculum stressful

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Same here! Love books. Teaching writing would be a challenge.

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My new school built their current ELA/Social Studies PBL curriculum and is the only one in the district doing so. K-6

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I build my own curriculum for my SCL classroom

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Yes and no. I would love to do it and feel like I could do a great job, but it would take so much time and I'm busy enough already. If I was given paid time to work on it, that would be amazing!

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I use to build my own curriculum. I loved it. We are now using a set curriculum, and while I miss making my own lessons, I do realize that I was not hitting all the marks like I should have been

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I would love that, it would feel so empowering.

Math is heavily dominated by Common Core. I’d like to see a new movement where curricula are not so heavily influenced by Common Core standards.

If taught according to current practice, isn’t every subject dominated by Common Core Standards, not just math?

YYYYYEEEEESSSSS!!!!! Where do I sign up?!

When Common Core first cake about, our old curriculum wasn’t enough, so we built our own. It was great. Took only the best pieces of a lot of things. Had the best scores in our district. Spent several years teaching exactly how I wanted to. Then the district funded new curriculum and our administration forced us to use only that. We hated it. Our test scores dropped. Now, our new admin is allowing us to supplement what we’d like as long as we are using the provided curriculum. We’ll see.

We do in our IB schools!

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