Curriculum Planning: A Multilevel, Multisector Process

Curriculum Planning: A Multilevel, Multisector Process

1. Levels of Planning

   • Classroom
   • Individual School
   • School District
   • State
     • 10th Amendment
       • The state holds primary power over education
   • Region
     • "New Math"
       • A brief, dramatic change in the way math was taught in American grade school during 1960s
         • Sputnick Crisis
           • Soviet engineers
             • Highly skilled mathematicians
         • Boost science education and mathematical skill in the population
       • Change to new curriculum topics and teaching practices
         • Modular arithmetic
         • Algebraic inequalities
         • Bases other than 10
         • Matrices
         • Symbolic logic
         • Boolean algebra
         • Abstract Algebra
         • Math Circle
           • High Level Math
             • Instructors fully understand the material
             • Instructors use curriculum to orient to age group and make accessible
         • Problem
           • Teachers required to teach material they do not fully understand
             • No training
           • Sudden
           • Mathematics is a cumulative development
             • Students not taught the basics first
       • Modern Art
         • Charlie Brown Comic Strip
         • Tom Lehrer Song: "New Math"
   • Nation
     • Standardize tests
       • molding the contemporary curriculum
       • what is being taught
       • how it's being taught
   • World
   • Team/grade/department
     • Teachers responsible for evaluating both the curriculum and instruction
       • Curriculum evaluation
         • assessment of programs, processes, and curricular products
       • Curriculum instruction
         • the assessment of student achievement before, during, and at the end of instruction
         • the assessment of the effectiveness of instructor

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• Tom Lehrer - New Math (Animated) (Embed)