ary Summary/Discussions in Curriculum: Foundations, Principles, and Issues By Allan C. Ornstein and Francis P. Hunkins Curriculum and Instruction 411 – Curriculum Dr. Adel T. AL-Bataineh Date: May 22, 2002 Larry Pahl larrypahl@aol.com cell: 630-400-5132 home: 630-483-9970 [pic] Chapter 1 Overview. View of Curriculum PART I Foundations of Curriculum Chapter 2. Philosophical Foundations of Curriculum Chapter 3. Historical Foundations of Curriculum Chapter 4. Psychological Foundations of Curriculum Chapter 5. Social Foundations of Curriculum Chapter 6. Curriculum Theory Part II. Principles of Curriculum Chapter 7. Curriculum Development Chapter 8. Curriculum Design Chapter 9. Aims, Goals, and Objectives Chapter 10. …show more content…
This absence is a sign of the incestuous nature of theoretical curriculum proliferation and the danger of detachment from the end it is supposed to serve. It is like a group of surgeons walking through their ward talking shop-- bones, cartilage, blood vessels, cutting tools—and they seem not to notice the hearts, minds and faces of their patients. And if we draw upon curriculum’s etymological affinity to the curule chair, we could rationally posit that the curriculum’s designer, since his or her design is, by its very nature, going to be affecting the lives of other people, should only be given the privilege of design if he or she has a breadth of experience and knowledge, and a successful track record in "proving" the design. There is a glut of untested, unproved theory and design because the mind can always race faster than the body. It’s time to resynch the mind-body connection by requiring of theory that it move no faster than what the body—the administrators and ultimately the students—can put into practice. In the end, a head separated from a body is a beheaded corpse. [pic] Here are the questions we were asked to answer in this summary of chapter one. I am answering them formally and specifically here at the end of my summary above. What is curriculum? The text lists five definitions. It can be defined as a plan for action or a written document that includes strategies for achieving goals. This is specific and prescriptive. Secondly it can be
Answer all the questions (except the ones in grey) in full sentences in your workbook after you have read the chapter. Please note that the page numbers given are for a different edition of the novel.
This quiz consist of 40 multiple choice questions. The first 10 questions cover the material in Chapter 9. The second 10 questions cover the material in Chapter 10. The third 10 questions cover the material in Chapter 12. The last 10 questions cover the material in Chapter 13. Be sure you are in the correct Chapter when you take the quiz.
| This quiz consist of 40 multiple choice questions. The first 10 questions cover the material in Chapter 4. The second 10 questions cover the material in Chapter 5. The third 10 questions cover the material in Chapter 6. The last 10 questions cover the material in Chapter 8. Be sure you are in the correct Chapter when you take the quiz.
The roots of the term curriculum goes all the way back to early times and in actual fact the word is derived from the Latin expression of currere: a path or battle or to run (Smith,
1). List and explain one concept from each chapter reviewed and how they connect to the facts of this case.
After reading this chapter, what questions were you left with? That is, did you find any of the discussion difficult or confusing?
Ralph Tyler (1957) describes curriculum as “. . . all the learning experiences planned and directed by the school to attain its educational goals (Glatthorn, 2011, p.3). Going by this definition, one can regard curricula as encompassing what is taught in the classroom, as well as
The origins of the word curriculum date back to ancient times and in fact the work comes from the Latin word of currere: a course or race or to run (Smith, 1996,2000). Over many decades, people have argued over the various definitions. Tanner (1980) defined it as “the planned and guided learning experiences and intended outcomes”, whilst Pratt (1980) defined it as a written document describing goals planned, objectives, content and evaluation. So s it a course of study? Or can it be defined as content or a product( Marsh, 2008). Marsh (2008) goes on to include that at a variety of learning sites are a set of objectives for student learning. We can also relate this to Tyler’s objective curriculum model being that the first step to curriculum is always to set the objective. The Model of Taba from 1962, is the same model at Tyler’s but includes interaction and flow between all four stages, so we do not always need the objective before we start writing the content to the curriculum.
Directions: To give you a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of the novel, answer the following questions for Part Three in complete sentences and use a different colored font.
Standards and curriculum are the core pieces of teaching. Basically, the curriculum is the meat of the course and the standards are how it is prepared. The meat of the course is the substance and the tools of instructing. It encompasses the material, lesson plans and literature. It also incorperates how the instructor decides to present the information, how they alter it to the students, and the order in which the content is delivered. Each instructor may choose to serve a different piece of meat; or rather, decide on a different method of demonstration, but the way the material is prepared must follow a common denominator.
Brady and Kennedy (2010) define the term curriculum as ‘the means by which young people and adults gain the essential knowledge, skills and attributes they need to be productive and informed citizens in a democratic society.’ However the term has many varied definitions, it can be described as being the subject matter, the overall plan for teaching or the outcome of what is taught (Wiles, 2005). Marsh and Willis (cited in Marsh, 2009, p. 3) break curriculum down into three individual areas of ‘planned curriculum’, the objectives and aims, ‘enacted curriculum’, how the objectives are
Curriculum is so much more than the paper copy of lessons and activities that we receive as teachers, but before this course I never really thought of curriculum as
A curriculum is any planned educational experience. Ideally, the learning objectives should incorporate the acronym “SMART”: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Targeted to the learner. Systematic Curriculum and Instructional Development (SCID) is a successful model for curriculum development customized to complement the needs of career and technical educators as well as business and industry trainers. It has five phases: design, development, implementation, evaluation. Since curriculum reflects the models of instructional delivery chosen and used, some might indicate that curriculum could be categorized according to the common psychological classifications of the four families of learning theories “Social, Information Processing, Personalist, and Behavioral” as defined by Cortes (1981). Cortes
Curriculum is hardly new in fact it dates way back to ancient Greece and the famous Aristotle’s (384BC- 322BC) who was a Greek philosopher. A student of Plato came up with the categorisation of knowledge, which I will be discussing later on in the commentary. So curriculum has been around for years, but the way we understand
Although it is impossible to agree on just one definition of curriculum, one can understand the idea based on how it functions in relation to education practice by aligning the three major types of curriculum, which are intended curriculum, implemented