The Curriculum for Understanding

The Curriculum for Understanding is based on the fact that all our learning comes from experience. Our experiences provide the gist for all that we learn. Primary experiences like seeing, hearing, sensing are the doors to ideas that once opened, create opportunities for learning that is far deeper & wider than our experience. We can wander, imagine and experiment with ideas. We can venture into areas that are much deeper than our experience. Learning to learn is the heart of education. Of course we begin with things we "have" to learn. We have to learn to spell, to do arithmetic, to think both scientifically & critically about things. The more we ask, the more we learn. The more we experience, the more we can ask. The Curriculum for Understanding is based on these fundamental principles. As we learn more, we discover more and we have more questions. As each question produces new information, we are creating new questions. The Curriculum for Understanding idea is that learning is more than acquiring information. It is the process of turning information into understanding.