Education professor calls parent tool kit during teachers strike “incoherent”

An education expert says online lessons the Alberta government has curated for students during a provincewide teachers’ strike are — quote — “incoherent.”

Maren Aukerman, an education professor at the University of Calgary, says the nearly 200-page tool kit also barely aligns with the provincial curriculum.

The government has said parents can use the online lessons to teach their children at home while the province’s 51-thousand teachers remain on strike.

Teachers went off the job Monday in the largest walkout in provincial history.

Aukerman says the government lessons jump from one topic to another each day.

For example, students learn about ancient Egypt one day, and Greek history the next.

Grade 4 students are taught how to draw triangles — an activity for those in Grade 1.

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