Curriculum and Instruction Defined

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Curriculum and Instruction Defined

• Chapter 1

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• Curriculum and instruction are viewed as separate
  but dependent concepts.
• Curriculum the program
• Instruction the method

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A Discipline?

• Contains
• An organized set of principles
• A body of knowledge and skills for which training
  is needed
• Its theoreticians and practitioners

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• A systematic group of courses or sequences of
  subjects required for graduation or certification
  in a field of study, for example, social studies
  curriculum, physical education

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• Curriculum is a plan for learning
• Hilda Taba

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• Robert Gagne -
• wove together subject matter (content), the
  statement of ends (terminal objectives),
  sequencing of content, and pre-assessment of
  entry skills required of students when they begin
  the study of the content
• What it doesor should do that is, its purpose

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Models of CurriculumInstruction Relationship

• Dualistic model
• Interlocking model
• Concentric model
• Cyclical model

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Curriculum as a Discipline

• Significant set of principles
• Borrowed constructs, principles, knowledge and
  skills
• Specialists and new curriculum concepts
  (theoreticians and practitioners)

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Principles of Curriculum Development

• Chapter 2

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Education

• System that changes ?
• Continuous improvements?
• Generally accepted principles?
• Who plays significant roles?

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Theory X, Y,Z

• The leader must know
• The change process (structure, information,
  control methods, decision made
• Have interpersonal skills (types of behavior)
• Leadership skills (traits) - approaches-
• Traditional, monocratic bureaucratic
• Pluralistic/collegial
• Communication skills (oral and written)

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Terms

• Curriculum development
• comprehensive term that includes planning,
  implementation, and evaluation
• Curriculum planning
• preliminary phase of curriculum development
• thinking or design phase
• Curriculum implementation
• translation of plans into action

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• Curriculum improvement
• synonymous with curriculum development
• Viewed as the result of development
• Curriculum evaluation
• Results assessed and successes of both the
  learners and programs determined

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10 Axioms of Change

• Inevitability of change
• inevitable and necessary
• Curriculum a product of its Time
• reflects / a product of its time
• Concurrent Changes
• - changes at earlier time/exist concurrently
  with new

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• Change in people
• - a result of people changing
• Cooperative Endeavor
• - effected as a result of cooperative endeavor on
  part of the group

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• Decision - Making Process
• basically what it is
• Continuous Process
• a never-ending process
• Comprehensive Process

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• Systematic Development
• more effective than trial and error
• Starting from Existing Curriculum
• - planner starts from where the curriculum
• is / ex. teacher starts from where students
• are