CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT& CHANGE

Reporter: Joan Marie V. Geraldo

Define Curriculum Development.Trace the Curriculum Continuum.Understand the Levels of Curriculum

Development.

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENTIs the idea of cooperative planning by any number of interested individuals.

Is a collective and intentional process or activity directed at beneficial curriculum change.

CURRICULUM DEVELOPERS- are persons charged with the responsibility of

planning, designing, and producing a curriculum, whether it be in the form of a brief document or

an elaborate curriculum package.

CURRICULUM

is a generic term that subsumes a whole family of concepts such as innovation, development, and adoption.

FULLAN’s FOUR CORE CHANGES(That Teachers Face in Participating in a School Curriculum Development)

1. Some form of regrouping or new grouping;2. The use of new curriculum materials;3. Changes in teaching practices;4. Changes in beliefs or understandings of how the

curriculum affects the learning.

Innovation- means either a new object, idea, or practice or the process by which a new object, idea, or practice comes to be adopted by an individual group or organization.

INNOVATION

Diffusion

Dissemination

- applies to intentional efforts to inform

individuals or group about an innovation and to gain their interest in

it.

- is the spontaneous, unplanned spread of new ideas.

The CURRICULUM CONTINUUM

Preparing, planning

and designing

the curriculum

Producing the

curriculum package

Adoption of the

curriculum

Implementa-tion of the curriculum

Institutio-nalizaton

of the curriculum

New pressures for change

and innovation

Pressure for change

and innovation

Dominant theories

and models

Contextual factors

Diffusion activities

Dissemination activities

Curriculum development activities

Evaluation activities

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AS A PLANNED ACTIVITY

Superintendent

Principal Teacher

TeacherTeacherCurriculum Committee

Subject Matter

Pedagogy

Curriculum Design

Evaluation

Organization

Writing

2. State Level

3. School District Level

4. School Level

5. Classroom LevelLEVELS OF

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

ACTIVITIES OF CURRICULUM DEVELOPERS

1. Activities that are designed to maintain and reinforce existing syllabi, resources, and practices.

2. Activities that are designed to produce innovative curricula and concrete experimentations.

3. Activities that are predominantly speculative and “think- tank” approaches to possible future curricula.

4 Characteristics of a Generic Curriculum Development Projects

1. They are undertaken by large teams of curriculum workers.

2. They make intensive use of surveys and questionnaires to assess what needs to be done.

3. Their development activities are assigned to teams of specialists.

4. They use elaborate procedures to communicate information, to advertise availability of their products, and to train potential users.

SITE OF ACTIVITIES

4 Characteristics of a Site-specific Curriculum Development Projects

1. They are undertaken by a small group of teachers, almost always working on the project part time.

2. Their assessments of what needs to be done are brief and informal.

3. Their activities tend to focus on the production of materials.

4. They may use generic materials as guides, sometimes even incorporating such materials into their final products.