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Susie · Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 390 Location: PRC

Is it "curriculums"?

or "curriculi"?

or what?

stillnosheep · Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 2068 Location: eslcafe

Curricula.

poof · Joined: 23 May 2005 Posts: 161

Agree with sheep. Baa.

briandwest · Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 98 Location: Hong Kong

I sheepishly concur.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/curriculum

Susie · Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 390 Location: PRC

"Poof"

Is the baby doing taijiquan?

poof · Joined: 23 May 2005 Posts: 161

I think it's called the 'Drunken Juvenile' form - a variant style from Shaolin.

well-travelled · Joined: 19 Mar 2003 Posts: 97

Funny - I'm watching the baby while listening to "Snow (Hey Oh) from Stadium Arcadian. Perfectly in rhythm with the music!!!

well-travelled

guilao · Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 20 Location: At-large

Curricula.
Unless you are a constructivist teaching in America. Then, of course, anything the student makes up is fair game. A sad state of affairs here, to be sure.

Susie · Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 390 Location: PRC

Do you mean that you don't think "Constructivism" makes for a happy state of affairs in America?

guilao · Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 20 Location: At-large

Not the way it's often implemented. Some instruction has to be interspersed with the PBL time, IMHO.

I assisted a teacher during a practicum who told her students, Spanish-speaking adults, that the plural of an "-um" noun is "-ums"; in an aside she told me it was easier than confusing them. This disturbed me for the simple reason that they are adults, who have already mastered their L1; obviously they were not stupid and capable of learning this irregular pattern. Perhaps this teacher should have let the students learn the form on their own rather than transmit bogus data.

IMHO, instructivism and constructivism are like Yin and Yang. But that's just me.

The reason America's hurting is because many school districts mandate their teachers to not lecture for more than 10 minutes. Educators can't use their own wits to decide the appropriate amount of time in a class session necessary for instruction. We get paid low enough as it is, why treat us like we work at a burger stand?