NOTETAKING GUIDES: INTRODUCTORY CONVERSATIONS

Introductory Conversations

• Curriculum Development
• Key Characteristics
  • Reflection
  • Application

Key Principles of Education

• Teaching
• Learning
• Curriculum
• Instruction

Issues that arise when talking about curriculum?

• Where do educators/trainers gather most of the content they teach?

Issues that arise when talking about curriculum?

• WDFDWFDo educators/trainers have the time to develop curriculum?

Issues that arise when talking about curriculum?

• VFDFGDo educators/trainers interact on curricular issues?

Issues that arise when talking about curriculum?

• Do educators have different roles than trainers?
• If so, how are their roles different?

Issues that arise when talking about curriculum?

• Do educators or trainers have the proper professional orientations to develop curriculum?

Issues that arise when talking about curriculum?

• Ultimately, who controls the implementation of a curriculum?

Issues that arise when talking about curriculum?

• What is the teacher's and trainer's primary role?

Issues that arise when talking about curriculum?

• What roles should and can educators and trainers play in curriculum development?

Issues that arise when talking about curriculum?

• What is a teacher proof curriculum?

Issues that arise when talking about curriculum?

• In curriculum development, what do you think a foundational rationale is? Why is it important?

Foundational Rationale

• Theoretical basis of a curriculum.
  • It is hard to implement a curriculum if you do not understand or accept why the curriculum was developed.
  • A foundational rationale takes into account philosophical, psychological, sociological, and methodological underpinnings.

What is Encapsulization?

• Briefly, one is too caught up in their own ways (sphere) to see other ways of doing things.

Characteristics of a Technical/ Occupational Curriculum

• Orientation
• Justification
• Focus
• In-School Success
• Out-of-School Success

Characteristics of a Technical/ Occupational Curriculum

• School/Business Relationships
• Federal Involvement
• Responsiveness
• Logistics
• Expense

Planned Occupational Curriculum Can Be:

• Data Based
• Dynamic
• Developed for Explicit Outcomes
• Fully Articulated
• Realistic
• Learner Oriented
• Evaluation Conscious
• Future Oriented

Administrator's /Managers Role in Curriculum Development?

• Recognizing the relativity of his/her perceptions in dealing with curriculum problems.
• Initiating and sustaining rigorous intellectual inquiry.
• Possessing a number of practical skills that one usually associates with the politics of the real world.

What role should professional associations take in curriculum development?

• Aid members in this activity.
• ASCD
• ASTD
• Content specialty groups.