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Should allow for individual design/implementation by individual teachers to meet the unique needs and desires of themselves and their students.

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Should look at the past to remember, reflect, question and change

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Should look at/be concerned with current and future trends/needs

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Should be cross-curricular. Connection between multiple subjects is important because real life is endlessly connected

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Should be diverse/multicultural. Should empower the otherwise often repressed.

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Critical! Should provide opportunity for real life question asking and problem solving

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Active participants - curriculum should allow students to be actively engaged with it, asking questions, making real life connections and so forth.

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Teacher in training - Everyone is and can be a teacher to someone else. Students have the ability to be a teacher of sorts to their peers and others when they are given a chance to voice their opinion and knowledge. Curriculum should provide this opportunity. Allow students to share what they have learned/are learning with others.

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Decision maker: Students should have a voice in what and how they learn. They should be given options that best meet the needs of a diverse body of learners

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Often, in most traditional curriculum, the role of the student is that of passive learner/test taker

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Local government & school authority

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Who Should Decide (Have more opportunity to)

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Who Should Decide (Have more opportunity to)

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Students - If allowed are often eager to express what they want to learn about and how. They should have more opportunity to do this in connection with the curriculum

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Teachers - Teachers are sometimes given a say but often their choices are limited to a selection of options pre-approved by administrators.

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Federal/State officials

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That is it inclusive, respectful and supportive of all different cultures.

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Connection to student's lives, including but not limited to their: communities, cultures, personal/historical histories, etc.

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Connection to the real world - both locally and globally

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Strong connection to the standards

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What Matters Most/What Should         Be Included

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What Matters Most/What Should         Be Included