By Josh Hall (Twitter: @Vancan19)

New curriculum approved for grades K-4

Dec 15, 2018 | 10:17 AM

A new K-4 curriculum has been approved by Alberta Education and the Alberta Teachers’ Association.

The curriculum will now be field-tested within classrooms.

In June 2016, the ministry and the association began developing the new program, in English and French, for language arts, mathematics, social studies, sciences, arts and wellness.

“Our government is fulfilling its promise to develop and deliver a modernized kindergarten to Grade 12 provincial curriculum. Field-testing future curriculum in the classroom is an important part of our process and it helps to ensure that what looks good on paper also makes sense in the classroom,” Education Minister David Eggen. “We will continue to work with our education partners and stakeholders to ensure that future curriculum is ready for students in a timely matter.”

The government says it received feedback from more than 100,000 people, making it the, “most open and transparent curriculum rewrite in Alberta Education’s history.”

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“It’s been a long time coming for the curriculum to include First Nations, Métis and Inuit perspectives, experiences and history. We are the first people of this land, major contributors to this country, and have faced and continue to face so many obstacles, says Jamie Ahksistowaki Medicine Crane with Alberta Education.

“It is important to have our world-view be included in the new curriculum, as it will teach the truth about our shared history, allowing students to become to understand our ways of knowing as we are all distinct and diverse because of the land where we come from. It also allows us to get rid of stereotypes and misconceptions and begin the process of reconciliation moving towards Reconcili-Action. The new curriculum is concept-based to allow our education system to become more holistic.”

The Government of Alberta expects to have new curriculums approved for grades 5-9 by December 2019, and for grades 10-12 sometime between December 2020 and 2022.

More details are available at the new LearnAlberta.ca.

by Josh Hall (Twitter: @Vancan19)

New curriculum approved for grades K-4

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