Chapter 15: Curriculum Products

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Chapter 15 Curriculum Products

• By the fruits ye shall know them.
• Terra Trull
• Forest Jones
• Gretchen Henning
• Steve Sizemore
• Donna Lee
• Diana Rayburn

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List all of the curriculum products you can think
of
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Chapter Objectives

• Construct a curriculum guide
• Construct a resource guide
• Identify sources of curriculum materials

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• Unfortunately, some curriculum developers view
  the creation of products as the final rather than
  the intermediate phase of curriculum improvement.
  The products are meant to be put into practice,
  tried out, revised, tried again, revised again,
  and so on. pg578

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Curriculum Products

• Chapter 6 statements of philosophy, aims of
  education
• Chapter 7 needs assessment surveys/reports
• Chapter 8 curriculum goals/obj
• Chapter 10 instructional goals/obj.
• Chapter 11- units and lesson plans
• Chapter 12 instruments for evaluating
  instruction
• Chapter 13 instruments for evaluating the
  curriculum

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Curriculum Guides, Courses of Study, and Syllabi

• Curriculum Guide a teaching aid with helpful
  suggestions specifies minimal objectives that
  students must master in the discipline
• Course of Study a detailed plan for a single
  course including text materials (content)
• Syllabi outline of topics to be covered in a
  single course or grade level

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Curriculum Guide Format

1. Introduction title, subject, grade level
2. Instructional Goals relates to schools
   curriculum goals/obj.
3. Instructional Objectives meets cognitive
   (mental processes) affective (emotional
   processes) psychomotor (perceptual motor skills)
4. Learning Activities experiences
5. Evaluation Techniques assessment
6. Resources human (expertise), material
   (audio/visual aids)

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Curriculum Guide Format

• Sequencing Format identifies objectives to be
  introduced/developed/mastered/
• reinforced/extended at each grade level
• Test-Coding Format identifies origin of each
  objective

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Resource Unit

• Resource Unit an arrangement of materials and
  activities around a particular topic or problem
  that will aid the teacher
• (Format is the same as a curriculum guide)

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Sources of Curriculum Materials

• Curriculum libraries of colleges and
  universities, particularly those of schools and
  departments of education
• Curriculum centers of the public schools systems
• Teacher education centers
• Offices of curriculum consultants
• State departments of education
• Regional educational service agencies

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End of Text

• Now that the class has finished summarizing the
  textbook, what is the definition of curriculum?

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Photo borrowed from Chapter 9