New Educational Plan from the Ministry of Education

Preamble 

 At our BC Science Institute October 2009 and during my keynote address to over 220 BC Science Teachers, I pointed out that eventually a time will come when they will have to take steps to become informed and deeply understand the direction the Ministry of Education is going with educational reform. I also stated I would identify when that time would occur.

This is that time.

Who Decides to Do This...?

When I was seconded to the Ministry of Education in the mid 90's to work in the curriculum branch, one of the most common questions I received was “who makes these decisions to do these things?” This somewhat cryptic question could be aligned to any educational issue of the day, but it tended to focus on curriculum documents because this was the time of the IRP, the BC curriculum document. I was somewhat fascinated by the question teachers asked me, because the answer, while not alway clear, was “you”.

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