Chapter 8Negotiating the Curriculum for Your Current Students in Today's World
One way I like to begin planning for learning experiences in connection to larger ideas and goals that young people have explicitly named, situations that have come up, or even the news is to use Vivian Maria Vasquez's concept of “negotiated curriculum” (2004). According to Vasquez, the negotiated curriculum is a “process for adjusting and reconstructing what we know, naming what matters for us, situating learning in lived experiences in connection to grade level standards” (p. 1). Note this is a stark contrast to designing curriculum for kids to accumulate information ...
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