Next school year 2014-2015, we'll be witnessing the last batch of RBEC students graduating from the old Curriculum. The curriculas before it, as far as my memory can carry me were SEDP, NSEC, RBEC, BEC as well as SEC and the latest was ASEC. Now its K+12. The last two batches were warned that failing in this two year period would result to spiraling down to the K+12 and would entail additional years just to reach college. Then again, the students said if they enter Grades 11 and 12, they can already find jobs after it and are not in a hurry to enter college years. One can always outreason what others state as warnings (or heralds-depending on who is listening).
The last batch of Physics curriculum had remained the same since it was introduced last 2003. The PSSLCs of the past 10 years, was itself an experimental set of LCs. If one were to study the Modules created for K+12 and the Prototype Lesson Plans of the 2003 PSSLCs, one can actually feel the the K+12 modules were "rehashed" versions of the 2003 Prototype Lessons. The Prototype Lesson Plans themselves show hallmarks of an amateur mind, with lots of ENCARTA, scanned comics and copied but uncited books that were more done haphazardly than products of longer research or studies. What does that tell me of the K+12? It feels like more of the same.
Why did I say that the 2003 PSSLC's were experimental? The lesson topics covered the REVERSED (Optics to Mechanics) topics of standard Physics textbook treatment (Mechanics to Optics). There was never an explanation as to why the reversal was done. It never served its purpose since College entrance tests always follow the Physics standard treatment of topics. When it was first shoved down to us, all Physics major teachers were in an uproar until we were told to Tow the line. Of course we never towed the line and opted to follow how college treat Physics since that would be the Physics that our students will eventually face.
THIS IS THE "DYING" PSSLCs of PHYSICS
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B52LsZdeqWiFSWZiVDR3Y3R6Y28/edit?usp=sharing
Happy to share this to all of you.
