curriculum development and change
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CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT& CHANGE
Reporter: Joan Marie V. Geraldo
Define Curriculum Development.Trace the Curriculum Continuum.Understand the Levels of Curriculum
Development.
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENTIs the idea of cooperative planning by any number of interested individuals.
Is a collective and intentional process or activity directed at beneficial curriculum change.
CURRICULUM DEVELOPERS- are persons charged with the responsibility of
planning, designing, and producing a curriculum, whether it be in the form of a brief document or
an elaborate curriculum package.
CURRICULUM
is a generic term that subsumes a whole family of concepts such as innovation, development, and adoption.
FULLAN’s FOUR CORE CHANGES(That Teachers Face in Participating in a School Curriculum Development)
1. Some form of regrouping or new grouping;2. The use of new curriculum materials;3. Changes in teaching practices;4. Changes in beliefs or understandings of how the
curriculum affects the learning.
Innovation- means either a new object, idea, or practice or the process by which a new object, idea, or practice comes to be adopted by an individual group or organization.
INNOVATION
Diffusion
Dissemination
- applies to intentional efforts to inform
individuals or group about an innovation and to gain their interest in
it.
- is the spontaneous, unplanned spread of new ideas.
The CURRICULUM CONTINUUM
Preparing, planning
and designing
the curriculum
Producing the
curriculum package
Adoption of the
curriculum
Implementa-tion of the curriculum
Institutio-nalizaton
of the curriculum
New pressures for change
and innovation
Pressure for change
and innovation
Dominant theories
and models
Contextual factors
Diffusion activities
Dissemination activities
Curriculum development activities
Evaluation activities
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AS A PLANNED ACTIVITY
Superintendent
Principal Teacher
TeacherTeacherCurriculum Committee
Subject Matter
Pedagogy
Curriculum Design
Evaluation
Organization
Writing
2. State Level
3. School District Level
4. School Level
5. Classroom LevelLEVELS OF
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
ACTIVITIES OF CURRICULUM DEVELOPERS
1. Activities that are designed to maintain and reinforce existing syllabi, resources, and practices.
2. Activities that are designed to produce innovative curricula and concrete experimentations.
3. Activities that are predominantly speculative and “think- tank” approaches to possible future curricula.
4 Characteristics of a Generic Curriculum Development Projects
1. They are undertaken by large teams of curriculum workers.
2. They make intensive use of surveys and questionnaires to assess what needs to be done.
3. Their development activities are assigned to teams of specialists.
4. They use elaborate procedures to communicate information, to advertise availability of their products, and to train potential users.
SITE OF ACTIVITIES
4 Characteristics of a Site-specific Curriculum Development Projects
1. They are undertaken by a small group of teachers, almost always working on the project part time.
2. Their assessments of what needs to be done are brief and informal.
3. Their activities tend to focus on the production of materials.
4. They may use generic materials as guides, sometimes even incorporating such materials into their final products.