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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Curriculum 2.0 may have some strengths in how it integrates language arts, social studies and science. But it is falling far short on math with its one-size-fits-all inside a single classroom premise. [/quote]

It falls very short in those areas as well. The "science" and "social studies" is simply reading and writing instruction using a paragraph or story with a science or social studies subject. Its expensive to have a science lab, purchase materials for experiments, and have teacher aids in class to work with groups but this how science should be taught rather than giving the kids a one page reading passage telling them the what and then a worksheet where they answer questions demonstrating their reading comprehension and ability to write. Science should be taught in a manner that allows kids to observe, develop a hypothesis, test this out, and discover things. This is about letting them see something change state (color, melt etc) and then ask them why do you think that happened? What could have changed? What things did we use that we could touch? What things did we use that we couldn't see? (heat, cold).

Language arts should also include foreign language instruction, especially in non-European languages, at the elementary school level. The goal should not be fluency or memorizing vocabulary or grammar rules but learning how to make sounds that are in different languages and learn language in context. It is very hard for high school kids and adults to pick up unfamiliar sound formation but preschoolers and elementary kids have an open window here.[/quote]
I'm a teacher in MCPS and what you described re: reading and writing instruction is not science and social studies under Curriculum 2.0 at all.  If that is how your child's teacher is implementing it, that may be true in that classroom, but it's not how the curriculum is designed in the least.[/quote]

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