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Curriculum Overview

Curriculum Overview. CIT 609 Special Topics in Curriculum Design By: Audrey Gruber. Curriculum. -Courses offered by an educational institution. -A set of courses constituting an area of specialization.

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Curriculum Overview

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  1. Curriculum Overview CIT 609 Special Topics in Curriculum Design By: Audrey Gruber

  2. Curriculum -Courses offered by an educational institution. -A set of courses constituting an area of specialization. -Collectively describes the teaching, learning, and assessment materials available for a given course of study. -Experiences through which children grow and mature in becoming adults. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/curriculum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curriculum

  3. Relationship Between Curriculum and Instruction -Instruction is the development and implementation of effectively teaching the curriculum content. -Instruction is known by teachers as “planning and teaching” the curriculum. -Curriculum is the content of what is taught and the overall process of how it should be taught. -Instruction is the detailed plans and how those plans are going to be carried out to teach the curriculum. -Both must be intertwined to maximize student learning. http://www.multiage-education.com/russportfolio/curriculumtopics/curoverview.html

  4. Relationship Between Curriculum and Instruction Instruction: • Tool utilized to reach short term goals • Hands on • Working according to the plan http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=f5923faccd5b74eeac9f

  5. Relationship Between Curriculum and Instruction Curriculum: • Goal driven • Long term • What is to be accomplished http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=f5923faccd5b74eeac9f

  6. “When they come together, we make BIG things happen!” http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=f5923faccd5b74eeac9f

  7. Bases of Curriculum Planning -Institutional: • planning domains • characteristics of school situations • impact of current trends and issues • use of strategic planning http://www.multiage-education.com/russportfolio/curriculumtopics/curoverview.html

  8. Bases of Curriculum Planning -Those that affect people directly: • student and teacher needs • local curriculum problems • competencies of the planners • pressures from inside and outside of the school http://www.multiage-education.com/russportfolio/curriculumtopics/curoverview.html

  9. Planning, Developing, and Implementing the Curricula Consider these curriculum decisions: • Validity • Best available evidence • Aims of education • Previous decisions and additional decision making need to be balanced http://www.multiage-education.com/russportfolio/curriculumtopics/curoverview.html

  10. Planning, Developing, and Implementing the Curricula Consider these curriculum decisions: • Cooperative decision making • Taking in account new facts of human life • Diversity of learners http://www.multiage-education.com/russportfolio/curriculumtopics/curoverview.html

  11. Planning, Developing, and Implementing the Curricula Consider these curriculum decisions: • Consideration of organizational and engineering matters that can affect decision making • Ways in which decisions will be shared • Referenced only to subject matter and pupil experiences that cannot be offered as satisfactorily outside of the school http://www.multiage-education.com/russportfolio/curriculumtopics/curoverview.html

  12. ValuesHow they affect curriculum planning • Social goals • Ideas about cultural uniformity and diversity • Social pressures http://www.multiage-education.com/russportfolio/curriculumtopics/curoverview.html

  13. ValuesHow they affect curriculum planning • Ideas about social change • Plans for the future • Concepts of culture http://www.multiage-education.com/russportfolio/curriculumtopics/curoverview.html

  14. References Curriculum. (2008). In Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved September 13, 2008, from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/curriculum . Curriculum Overview. (2000). Retrieved September 13, 2008 from http://www.multiage-education.com/russportfolio/curriculumtopics/curoverview.html . Relationship between curriculum and instruction. (n.d.). Retrieved September 13,2008 from http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=f5923faccd5b74eeac9f . Curriculum. (2008). In Wikipedia Online Dictionary. Retrieved September 13, 2008, fromhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curriculum .

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