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3 facts you need to know
About the new K-12 education curriculum
By Bill Bennett
Kootenay East MLA
1. As part of government’s larger transformation plans, a new K-12 education curriculum will be phased in over three years. Curriculum will continue to focus on reading, writing and arithmetic, but will enable students to learn as individuals using a broader range of tools.
2. Flexible learning is central. Students can learn core subjects while doing projects of their individual interest, such as music, hockey and dinosaurs. There will be more hands-on learning opportunities for students to see how theory applies in real life situations.
3. Teachers of K-9 will have the option to use the new curriculum now with full implementation in fall of 2016. The entire K-12 curriculum will be phased in by 2017-18. For the first time, teachers collaborated on the creation of a new curriculum that includes
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