Teachers in the High Prairie School Division will not be using the proposed K-6 draft curriculum in their classrooms.
Superintendent Laura Poloz says the Board of Trustees had decided to see if any teachers would pilot parts of the curriculum, but ultimately none of their teachers wanted to test it.
“We understood that our students were going to be harmed from the pandemic, their learning would be impaired quite likely. We understood that there was community concern, especially from our parents, first nations and metis about the curriculum. Our French community was concerned about the curriculum.”
Poloz says with a number of students already falling behind in the current curriculum because of the pandemic, it lead to their teachers deciding to not use.
“It’s more difficult for them to understand if it’s the content of the new curriculum the children are struggling with, or is it because they have some delays due to the pandemic and maybe they haven’t scaffold their learning quite as articulately as they would have if it had been in a regular school year.”
While the draft won’t be used in their classrooms, Poloz says they will still provide some feedback on it to the province.
She adds that the Board of Trustees did identify some positives in the draft curriculum, such as more financial literacy and computer science.
– Kyle Moore, Trending 55 Newsroom
