Understanding Curriculum and Academic Standards,

1. Understanding Curriculum
EDU 216
Chapter 5

2. ICE BREAKER
• Complete the Ice Breaker on p. 143.
• Determine the items that represent explicit,
implicit, and null curriculum.

3. Influences on Education
• Educational reform movement of 1958
– Sputnik
– NDEA (National Defense Education Act)
– Federal educational research and development
– State responsibilities

4. What is “Curriculum”?
• “the means and materials with which students
will interact for the purpose of achieving
identified educational outcomes”
• What else is involved? C

5. A Bit of History
• Trivium – Medieval Europe - grammar,
rhetoric, and logic
• Quadrivium – arithmetic, geometry, music,
and astronomy.
• How does this compare to today?

6. The Four Curricula
• Explicit
• Implicit
• Null
• Extra

7. Outcomes vs. Experiences
• Program by which the schools meet their
educational goals
• Accountability follows an outcomes driven
curriculum
• DEBATE – WHICH CURRICULUM DO YOU
BELIEVE IS MOST BENEFICIAL FOR STUDENTS?

8. How do we determine. . .
• what we want “every child to know?”
• what we want to leave out?
• which values to teach?
• time and money for each portion of the
curriculum?
• how to leave education open-ended enough
for students of today to create solutions for
tomorrow?

9. Perspectives of Curricula
• Cognitive – focuses on acquisition of
knowledge
– Subject –centered
– Core curriculum
– Mastery learning
– Outcome-based education
– Computer assisted instruction

10. Perspectives of Curricula (cont.)
• Affective Perspective
– Student-centered
– Humanistic education
– Cooperative learning
– Broad Fields/Integrated curriculum
– Problem-solving, relevance, inquiry
– Activity