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Ms. Daken was my high school teacher for my junior and senior English courses. For those who have the pleasure to know Ms. Daken, it is obvious she cares about education and her students. She is the most progressive high school teacher I had and challenged me more than anyone to rethink my societal views.
In this interview, I asked Ms. Daken about her views on the curriculum, how the curriculum works and some changes she would make to the curriculum. Luckily, Ms. Daken is a curriculum writer for my old high school and provided a lot of inside knowledge that I did not know about curriculum writing before this interview. Ms. Daken is a very progressive teacher, as so she is helping to make a curriculum that is diversified.
Key Points of the interview:
The curriculum is based into sections based on books and the skills being learned from those books.
Over 100 texts were considered the last time the curriculum was written.
Ms. Daken believes that technology and how we use it in the classroom and how we teach it is the biggest challenge to the English curriculum.
Diversity in texts is a big concern but texts are being diversified more and more in schools
National standards make sense but lead to a rise in standardized testing.
How I will use this information in my teaching
As a teacher if there is a section of choice books I can choose diversified texts that give the students the opportunity to read from an author they may not have ever heard of
I can become a curriculum writer that helps choose diverse texts
I can text contemporary books in modern ways. Ms. Daken gave the example of Jane Eyre being taught through a feminist lens. I would like to incorporate that into my teaching
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