One of the biggest problems in changing anything like this is that it requires extra effort from teaches to completely "retool".
Anyone who has ever spent anytime teaching knows that when you first start out, you have to figure out a lot of stuff when teaching a new curriculum, but by the time you've taught the material 2-3 times [0], you start streamlining things and getting more efficient. The time you spend retooling almost always comes out of your personal time. i.e. from hours beyond the 40-50 hour work week.
After you know a curriculum well, you end up with more personal time. Introducing new standards, means a new curriculum and a new curriculum means a lot of unpaid personal time from teachers if you want them to really adopt it and teach it well.
I just don't see a new curriculum working well unless it comes with the notion of paid extra-time that you know teachers will have to put in to succeed with the new curriculum. It doesn't have to be a lot, but simply 5-10 more hours each week and a bonus equal to 10-25% of their salary to make up for the additional time would probably work. The only key would be that there needs to be a way to measure that teachers are putting in the extra time to really learn the new curriculum and apply it instead of collecting the bonus for putting in the minimum effort.
At the end of the day, it you don't budget both time and money to learn any new curriculum, it's either going to fail or be met with resistance from teachers who feel like they already have a system that works for them and their students.
[0] either in the same semester or school year because you teach multiple groups the same material or after 2-3 semesters or school years of teaching the subject to one group at a time
Anyone who has ever spent anytime teaching knows that when you first start out, you have to figure out a lot of stuff when teaching a new curriculum, but by the time you've taught the material 2-3 times [0], you start streamlining things and getting more efficient. The time you spend retooling almost always comes out of your personal time. i.e. from hours beyond the 40-50 hour work week.
After you know a curriculum well, you end up with more personal time. Introducing new standards, means a new curriculum and a new curriculum means a lot of unpaid personal time from teachers if you want them to really adopt it and teach it well.
I just don't see a new curriculum working well unless it comes with the notion of paid extra-time that you know teachers will have to put in to succeed with the new curriculum. It doesn't have to be a lot, but simply 5-10 more hours each week and a bonus equal to 10-25% of their salary to make up for the additional time would probably work. The only key would be that there needs to be a way to measure that teachers are putting in the extra time to really learn the new curriculum and apply it instead of collecting the bonus for putting in the minimum effort.
At the end of the day, it you don't budget both time and money to learn any new curriculum, it's either going to fail or be met with resistance from teachers who feel like they already have a system that works for them and their students.
[0] either in the same semester or school year because you teach multiple groups the same material or after 2-3 semesters or school years of teaching the subject to one group at a time