ATA Research - Professional Curriculum Analysis and Critique of Alberta Education’s

the curriculum working groups review and revise the K–6 draft curriculum (2021), considering all the input received, and draft the curriculum consistent with the well-established standards of an Alberta program of studies; and 5. [...] —Dave Hancock, Minister of Education 2011 On behalf of the Alberta Teachers’ Association, I want to thank the thousands of teachers who completed the survey and contributed to the specialist council written submissions, and the teachers and school and system leaders that participated in the Curriculum Circle meeting. [...] In the evaluation or critique phase, the evidence is critically evaluated, considering the context of the education system, and a judgment is then made about the quality and potential value of the policy, program or activity (Nordin and Wahlström 2019). [...] These Guidelines and supporting information in the Guiding Framework became the criteria used for the survey questions, the written submission template and the discussion questions at the Curriculum Circle meeting. [...] It includes the program Rationale, which describes how the subject learnings support the Ministerial Order on Student Learning, and the Philosophy, which describes how the current knowledge, understandings and skills of the discipline are addressed in the curriculum and how students will be engaged in learning the discipline.