Authentic Curriculm

Overall, I have to say that I like the idea of the authentic curriculum.  Even though I’m not very existentialist, I do enjoy the individualism that is being promoted in this model.  I think that a big part of education is getting students to want to learn, and the best way to go about doing that is to have students choose their own topics to research.  The project based learning that takes place is very important to my teaching philosophy. 

                I’m also a big fan of students having choices in what they can learn about.  Looking back at high school, there are definitely topics I wanted to go more in depth about.  For example, I would’ve really liked for a film studies class to be offered.  This interest in film is one of the reasons I want to find as many ways as possible to incorporate movies into my curriculum.

                Despite my love for the project based learning piece of authentic curriculum, I don’t know if I will completely implement it.  My biggest concern is the fact that I want to be a teacher, not a facilitator.  The concept of the authentic curriculum seems to make teaching obsolete by having students learn everything on their own.