Academic Plan

Academic Plan

1. Purpose

   • The Purpose is the why !
   • Knowledge,, skills , and attitudes to be learned
   • Intended outcomes first

2. Content

   • Achievement of purpose can be met in many ways
   • Subject matter and educational goals are interdependent
   • Emphasizes that purposes (or desired learning outcomes)

3. Learners

   • Backgrounds
     • Knowledge of the abilities, previous preparation, and goals of learners.
     • Educators and students have their own goals and intentions.
   • Goals
   • Effort and Involvement
   • Learner Influences on Program Planning
   • Behavioral Perspectives
     • Reinforcement of behaviors that approrimate a target (or desired) behavior.
   • Example: students are more diverse, more job-oriented, tend to have shorter attention spans, less willing to read lengthy assignments, working student

4. Sequence

   • Subject matter is arranged to facilitate learning in
   • Educational benefits and instructional rationales should drive discussions about subject matter arrangement

5. Instructional Resources

   • Materials and Settings
   • Textbooks, classrooms, labs, guest speakers,white boards

6. Evaluation

   • Informal Evaluation
   • Student-Centered Evaluation
     • Examines goal congruence between students and instructors, and between students and programs
   • Goal-Free Evaluation
     • Focuses on what happened to the students, including both intended and unintended consequences
   • Enhancing Program Evaluation
   • Strategies used to determine whether decisions about the elements of the academic plan are successful
   • Evaluation plans often emphasize educators' goals as measured by student achievement
   • Professional Judgment
     • Student Achievement
     • Faculty members rely on their own professional judgment when evaluating their courses,

7. Adjustment

   • To improve both the plan and the planning process.
   • Help to identify which aspects need improvement when the plan is revised

8. Utilitarian Mission:

   • Purpose to train citizens to participate in the nation's economic and commercial life.
     • The Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862

9. Research Mission

   • The production of new knowledge
   • Attract large numbers of undergraduates due to institutional prestige and substantial resources.

10. Liberal Arts Mission:

    • The study of classical languages and literatures.

11. External Influences

    • Market Forces
    • Societal trends
    • Government
    • Accrediting agencies
    • Disciplinary associations
    • EXTERNAL INFLUENCES: SOClOCULTURAL CONTEXT
      • Changes in the nation's economy
      • Changes in the policies of state governing boards
      • Changes in the standards for regional and professional accreditation

12. Course Planning

    • Extensive planning activities prior to teaching an existing course.

13. Program Planning

    • Influences on Program Planning
    • Planned group of courses and experiences designated for a specific group of students.
      • Program mission may be the strongest contextual influence on program planning
        • Compromise between faculty of same disciplines
    • Sequencing program content is inherent in the development of focused general education programs.

14. College Wide Planning

    • College-Wide
      • Large Universities: Many Levels of Curriculum Approval
      • Small Universities : Sense of a community during decision making .
        • Encourages involvement aid in curricular change

15. Models of Change

    • Scope of Curricular Change
    • Institutional response to external societal pressures
    • Diffusion of educational ideas developed outside the institution;
    • Issues that emerge from planning efforts of faculty and administrators within a program, college, or university
    • Planned Change Models
      • R&D and Problem Solving

16. Internal Influences

    • Institutional
      • College mission , Resources, and Governance
    • Unit level
      • Faculty & Discipline Student characteristics

17. Curriculum

    • The set of courses offered to students
    • Time and credit frame in which the college provides education
    • College’s mission, purpose, or collective expression of what is important for students to learn

18. INSTRUCTIONAL PROCESSES

    • The instructional activities by which learning may be achieved