Understanding curriculum
- 2. ICE BREAKER • Complete the Ice Breaker on p. 143. • Determine the items that represent explicit, implicit, and null curriculum.
- 3. Influences on Education • Educational reform movement of 1958 – Sputnik – NDEA (National Defense Education Act) – Federal educational research and development – State responsibilities
- 4. What is “Curriculum”? • “the means and materials with which students will interact for the purpose of achieving identified educational outcomes” • What else is involved? C
- 5. A Bit of History • Trivium – Medieval Europe - grammar, rhetoric, and logic • Quadrivium – arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. • How does this compare to today?
- 6. The Four Curricula • Explicit • Implicit • Null • Extra
- 7. Outcomes vs. Experiences • Program by which the schools meet their educational goals • Accountability follows an outcomes driven curriculum • DEBATE – WHICH CURRICULUM DO YOU BELIEVE IS MOST BENEFICIAL FOR STUDENTS?
- 8. How do we determine. . . • what we want “every child to know?” • what we want to leave out? • which values to teach? • time and money for each portion of the curriculum? • how to leave education open-ended enough for students of today to create solutions for tomorrow?
- 9. Perspectives of Curricula • Cognitive – focuses on acquisition of knowledge – Subject –centered – Core curriculum – Mastery learning – Outcome-based education – Computer assisted instruction
- 10. Perspectives of Curricula (cont.) • Affective Perspective – Student-centered – Humanistic education – Cooperative learning – Broad Fields/Integrated curriculum – Problem-solving, relevance, inquiry – Activity