Curriculum leadership chapter 13 powerpoint

Glatthorn, Boschee, Whitehead, Boschee, Curriculum Leadership, 3rd Edition
© 2012 SAGE Publications
Chapter 13:
Curriculum Developments in
the Subject Field
Curriculum workers have become
concerned with changes
transcending a single discipline.

 New standards and frameworks are being
developed with the adoption of the Common
Core Standards
Subject Field Concerns

 Literacy is a high priority in US
 IRA criteria for developing and evaluating
preparation programs for reading professionals.
Developments in Language Arts

 Ongoing debate over best practices in the
teaching of reading, influence of standards and
increasing attention being paid to assessment
and student results.
 Public believes literacy is the key to personal
happiness and financial security.
 Literacy crisis in US secondary schools
 Standards movement
Issues Facing K-12 Language Arts

 Students must have the opportunities and
resources to develop the language skills they
need to pursue life’s goals and participate fully as
informed productive members of society.
Standards Focus for Language Arts

 Widespread interest in the composing process
and a concomitant attention to diverse types of
writing
 More comprehensive and diversified view of the
student’s response to literature
 Specific attention to the teaching of critical
thinking in English
 Renewed interest in integrating language arts
Trends in Language Arts

Circle writing
Sketch to stretch
Differentiated roles
Literature circles
Tiering
Writing and Literacy Programs

 Teachers need to use best reading practices with
a multi-tiered approach.
 Teachers need to use a variety of approaches
and different types of instruction.
 Direct instruction and means based approaches
appear to most successful.
Trends in Reading

 Read/Write Web
 Electronic classroom networks
 www.reading.org
 www.ecs.org
 www.cldinternational.org
Technology and Reading
Improvement

 Lack of extensive preparation of elementary
teachers.
 Dominant organizational patterns for SS
 SS curriculum has not been changed in
classrooms
 Revised national standards for SS
Social Studies Issues

 Integration into the teaching of reading.
 Teaching of historical thinking skills
 Point of view
 Credibility of evidence
 Historical context
 Causality
 Multiple perspectives
 Technology programs and WebQuests
Trends in Social Studies

 The teaching of mathematics is a cultural
activity: learned implicitly, hard to see from
within the culture, and hard to change.
 The key to change will be for teachers and
students to be working on problems as the
lessons unfold.
 It will be about building pathways for ongoing
improvement of instruction. Information about
what students are actually learning is essential to
instructional improvement.
Mathematics

 The Equity Principal – Excellence in mathematics
education requires an equity principle – high
expectations and strong support for all students
 Common Core Standards
 NCTM recommendations
Trends in Mathematics

 Science teachers are engaging students in rich
process of inquiry.
 Technology provides powerful tools
 Science Standards
Trends in Science

 Curricular approaches:
 Problem-posing education
 Functional-notional syllabus
 Proficiency approach
 Instructional Approaches
 Immersion programs
 Suggestopedia
Trends in Foreign Language

 National Standards for Arts Education 1994
 Trends are favoring aesthetics, art history, and art
criticism
 Technology incorporation
Trends in Art Education

 Physical Education Standards
 Enhance physical activity in daily living
 NASPE and American Heart Association
recommend that all children 5 and older should
have 30 minutes of daily physical activity at a
moderate intensity level and vigorous activity for
30 minutes at least 3 days a week.
Trends in Physical Education

 Educators need to make students globally literate.
The American Forum on Global Education provides
a “Global Education Checklist for Teachers,
Schools, School Systems, and State Education
Agencies”
 A complete self assessment tool to measure the
degree of success in the different areas in question
in your school or school district about global
education.
 You can get it at www.globaled.org/finalcopy.pdf .
Global Education

 Culturally responsive pedagogy has three
dimensions:
1. Institutional reflecting the administration and its
policies or values
2. Personal reflects the cognitive and emotional
processes teachers must engage in to become
culturally responsive and
3. Instructional which reflects materials, strategies,
and activities the form the basis of instruction
Diversity Education

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