What is the CurriculumProgram Development Process What leadership will you offer

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What is the Curriculum/Program Development
Process?What leadership will you offer?
How does it work in your organization? Share
with your group..
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Glatthorns Model
School Board
Citizens Curriculum Advisory Council
Superintendent
Curriculum Planning Council
Principals
Task Forces
School Curriculum Council
Curriculum Writers
Instructional Planning Teams
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Organizational components (1-15) needed to
accomplish effective curriculum work

• District org structure for central curriculum
  planning
• District org structure for developing curriculum
• District org structure for citizen input
• District long-term plan for developing curriculum
• District requires groups developing curriculum to
  submit specific plans for accomplishing this task
  (Are plans monitored?)
• Written Board policies delineating its role in
  curriculum development
• District written curriculum goals
• District written vision of excellence for
  curriculum

Do you have these components?
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• Written, systematic district process for
  developing and evaluating curriculum
• Systematic district process for aligning
  instruction with written curriculum, texts and
  assessments
• Systematic district process for monitoring the
  curriculum
• Systematic district process for implementing the
  curriculum
• Each school has its own goals, vision and written
  program of studies
• Classroom teachers develop yearly plans, courses
  of study and integrated units
• District audit assesses the quality of the
  delivered curriculum

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Who could/should/might be involved in the
curriculum planning process?

• Citizens Curriculum Advisory Council
• Curriculum Planning Council
• Curriculum Task Forces
• Curriculum Writers
• School Curriculum Council
• Instructional Planning Teams

What about me?
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Whos Involved? What do they do? Citizens
Curriculum Advisory Council

• Superintendent and assistant superintendent for
  curriculum AND members appointed by the Board
  with input from school administrators
• Council acts in an advisory capacity to School
  Board
• Advise Board on curriculum policy
• Foster communication by meeting with individuals
  and community groups concerned about the
  curriculum
• Hold hearings on controversial curriculum issues,
  communicate recommendations to Board
• Confer with Curriculum Planning Council and
  individual Task Forces to share community beliefs
  and opinions about curriculum issues

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Whos Involved? What do they do?Curriculum
Planning Council

• Central Office staff, school administrators,
  professional support staff, teachers (selection
  based on knowledge of district, ability to plan,
  knowledge of current curriculum practices,
  credibility with colleagues
• Organize Planning Council, set schedule, choose
  leadership, determine how decisions will be made
• Provide leadership in identifying educational
  goals and developing a vision of curriculum
  excellence
• Explicate the districts curriculum guide
  development process
• Develop and submit budget recommendations for
  curriculum work
• Arrange for necessary leadership training and
  staff development

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• Identify a standard format for the curriculum
  guides
• Identify and implement curriculum evaluation
  processes
• Develop processes and materials to ensure the
  curriculum is effectively implemented
• Conduct a needs assessment to identify priorities
  for developing curriculum guides and related
  materials
• Appoint and provide training for Task Forces that
  will develop the actual curriculum guides
• Monitor the work of Task Forces

Curriculum Planning Council continued
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Whos Involved? What do they do?Curriculum
Task Forces

• One principal from each level of schooling, a
  central office supervisor, several teachers
• Select people based on
• Knowledge of the subject area for which they are
  responsible
• Ability to produce work on schedule
• Knowledge of the districts curriculum
  development processes
• Influence with classroom teachers
• They develop the new curriculum(but not
  necessarily all alone)

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Whos Involved? What do they do?Curriculum
Writers

• They assist the Curriculum Task Force with
  writing the curriculum
• Select members based on
• Knowledge of the subject
• Ability to write clearly and effectively

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Whos Involved? What do they do?School
Curriculum Council

• School administrators and teacher leaders
• Makes the major decision concerning school-based
  curriculum development
• Provide leadership in program restructuring and
  development tasks
• Develop guidelines for Instructional Planning
  Teams

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Whos Involved? What do they do?Instructional
Planning Teams

• Teachers in schools who work together to
  implement the curriculum
• Their tasks include development of
• Yearly plans based on the curriculum guide
• Units of study derived from the guide and yearly
  plans
• Materials to individualize the curriculum
• Materials to be used in the classroom

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What about the student voice?
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Curriculum Development Cycle

• Planning -- appoint Task Forces, develop
  knowledge base, orient teachers, develop
  Hallmarks of Excellence, collect data and input
  from teachers
• Production --manufacture materials including
  scope and sequence charts, developing guides,
  creating materials to support guides
• Piloting -- partial implementation
• Implementation -- full implementation

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Leading the Curriculum/Program Development Process
What type of leader are you?
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What are your beliefs in people?McGregors
Theory X - Theory Y
Are people generally capable? Can they be trusted
to do a good job? Will they want to do a good
job? Are they capable of doing a good job? How
much supervision and oversight do people require?
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How do you run meetings?(concern for people or
task)Blake and Mouton Managerial Grid
1,9 country club
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9,9 team
People
5,5 middle-of-the-road
1,1 impoverished
9,1 produce or perish
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Task
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Principles of CollaborationDavid StrausHow to
Make Collaboration Work

• Stakeholder involvement
• Consensus building
• Process design
• Facilitation
• Group memory

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Stakeholders

• What are they?
• Why are they important?
• How do you identify them?
• How do you involve them?
• What should be their roles/responsibilities?
• What are the consequences for non-involvement?

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StakeholdersWho should you involve?

• Those with formal power to make a decision
• Those with power to block a decision
• Those affected by the decision
• Those with relevant information or expertise

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How do you build consensus?Phase by phase!! All
must be in the same phase, at the same time, if
the process is to work

• Perception
• Definition
• Analysis
• Generation of Alternatives
• Evaluation
• Decision Making

Problem space
Solution space
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Attend to Process DesignPathways to Action Model
Vision space
Process Design space
Solution space
Implementation space
Problem space
Agenda Planning You can only be in only one space
at a time Figure out your desired outcomes/what
you want to achieve in the meeting
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Facilitation Meeting Roles Responsibilities

• Facilitator
• Recorder
• Manager/chairperson
• participant

Interaction Method -- Shared Responsibility Everyo
ne in the meeting shares responsibility for
making sure that everyone stays in role, thereby
ensuring individuals dont overstep their
function and manipulate the group.
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Group Memory

• We can only remember so much (7-10 items, give or
  take a couple). By using a paper to record group
  memory, we can see what we have said and then
  move on.

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What is the Curriculum/Program Development
Process?What leadership will you offer?
Write this in your Curriculum at a Glance
booklet.