It's coming. Well, actually, it's already here (in many areas anyway)...
I'm talking about the new BC curriculum. Located here: https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/curriculum
Two summers ago, I was taking a course at UBC called "The Short Course for Principals". One of the guest speakers was the person responsible for the "task force" which was putting the new curriculum together. "For a change", this was an individual who had actually been an educator. He told us that he was going to be bringing in teachers and administrators to help put the curriculum together. Logical, right? He told us about the fact that teachers would be able to have more autonomy over what they were teaching. That also sounded good. He told us about the idea behind shifting towards a few "core competencies" that all students would need to learn (instead of the current list of PLOs) To me, that also felt like something headed in the right direction. He probably made a few more salient points that I cannot remember now, but everyone there (all educators) stood up and broke into a genuine and natural applause. The man, who also had a sense of humour, said: "Excuse me. I just need to send out a two word 'tweet': Ministry Applauded," as if it had never happened before. That stuck with me. Maybe it hadn't. Perhaps because the ministry had never before involved the various levels of stakeholders in the process the way they did this time.
I'm hoping that all the work, resources and help from current educators with ideas about how students learn best that has been put into the new curriculum will be as good as it seemed back when I first heard about the changes coming to the new curriculum in its "idealistic" sense. They've opened it up to parents, had feedback from readers and users online and have continued to revamp the process as it has gone along. Now we are getting to look at it and use it in our classes if we like (and why not try it out now if we're going to be using it soon anyway?). Sometimes change is a good thing.
Here is the link for the home page again https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/
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