The document provides a detailed overview of collaborative curriculum planning, emphasizing the importance of teamwork among educators, parents, and students to create tailored educational experiences for students with special needs. It discusses strategies for effective collaboration, the role of team teaching, and the advantages and disadvantages associated with it in educational contexts. Key considerations include scheduling, purpose, and established protocols to ensure productive curriculum conversations and successful outcomes.

1. COLLABORATIVE CURRICULUM
PRESENTED
By
DEEN GEORGE
H17MEDM002

2. DEFINITION OF CURRICULUM
Curriculum includes all planned experiences
provided by the school to assist the pupil in
attaining the designated learning outcome to
best of their abilities (Nearly&Eva)

3. DEFINITION OF CURRICULUM cont…..
• Curriculum is a tool in the hands of the artist
(teacher) to mould his material (pupils) according
to his ideas (aims and objectives) in his studio
(school)”. (Cunningham)

4. COLLABORATION

5. COLLABORATION
Collaboration is where two or more
people or organizations work together
to realize or achieve something
successfully.

6. WHAT IS COLLABORATIVE LEARNING?

7. Collaborative learning
• collaborative learning is a comprehensive term for "a
variety of educational approaches involving joint
intellectual effort by students, or students and
teachers together."

8. COLLABORATIVE CURRICULUM
• Collaborative curriculum planning is the
process to determine the most appropriate
curriculum options and adjustments for a
student with special education needs.

9. COLLABORATIVE CURRICULUM Cont….
• This usually involves a team having significant
knowledge and understanding of the student.
• The team comprises parents, teachers and other
significant individuals in the student’s life. It
also includes the student themselves.

10. During the collaborative planning process, it is
important to consider:-
• The needs, strengths, goals, interests and prior
learning of the student as they transition through
stages of schooling
• Whether adjustments are needed for teaching,
learning and assessment in relation to each subject

11. During the collaborative planning process, it is
important to consider:- Cont…..
• The sequence and emphasis to be given to
particular areas of syllabus content
• How the student will demonstrate achievement
of outcomes and the method of reporting.

12. Through the collaborative curriculum planning
process, the following can be determined:-
• Outcomes and content most appropriate for the
student in each key learning area.
• Adjustments or support required for particular
teaching, learning and assessment opportunities.
• Learning goals for the student.
• Pattern of study most appropriate for the
student.

13. COLLABORATIVE CURRICULUM
DEVELOPMENT IN TEACHER DESIGN TEAMS
• Teachers' participation in collaborative
curriculum development is considered as having
great potential for creating materials which are
suitable for their specific context and for their
professional development.
• Collaboration in the design is aimed to the
general decisions and not the construction of
materials.

14. 5 Essential Strategies To Facilitate Collaborative
Curriculum Conversations
1. Schedule
2. Process
3. Purpose
4. Protocols
5. Action
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15. 1. Schedule
When schools begin curriculum mapping,
scheduling each stage of the process is essential.
2. Process
A recognized and established review process
across the school or district that includes both
macro and micro review structures.

16. 3. Purpose
Without clarity of purpose collaborative curriculum
conversations are unlikely to occur.
4. Protocols
It is essential that clear protocols are established to
ensure an environment where all members of the
school system feel their contributions are valued and
respected, and a practice of ‘suspending all
judgment’ is at the heart of these conversations.

17. 5. Action
• Timely synthesis of data
• Feedback and further review and refinement
• Specific strategies, actions and timelines

18. What is Team Teaching?
As the name suggests it is a group of teachers,
working as a team and teaching. The team can range
from 2 to 5 teachers who will teach the same group
of students. The different type of teaching may
include- Teaching a same group at the same time,
shared teaching as per the area of expertise or
teaching different subgroup within a large group of
students.

19. ADVANTAGES OF TEAM TEACHING IN EDUCATION:
1. Low cost
2. Support to teachers
3. Closer integration of staff
4. Variety of ideas
5. Better involvement of students
6. Mental simulation to students
7. Breaks traditional lecture boredom

20. ADVANTAGES OF TEAM TEACHING IN EDUCATION:
8. Better bonding between student and teacher
9. Provokes participation / interaction
10. Imparts the lesson of team management:
11. Develops interpersonal skills and logic of students:
12. Teachers can give individual attention:
13. Staff development:
14. Long term knowledge retention:

21. Disadvantages of Team Teaching:
1. Acceptance of change by teachers:
Teachers may not accept the idea of team teaching, they
are often rigid and want to stick to the traditional
teaching techniques.
2. Rigidity in teachers:
Teachers often have rigidity to accept and adjust with
other teachers, while working in a team we have to
accept others idea and drop ours.

22. 3. Bad team management:
Internal coordination and good team tempo is
extremely important, internal conflict may result to a
complete failure.
4. Personality conflict:
A dominating person, will overpower other people, a
collaborative approach will help everyone grow and
devise effective process of team teaching.

23. 5. Inability to complete curriculum:
Though creative teaching is necessary, it is also
important for completing the course syllabus.
6. Time for coordination and planning:
Teachers have to take out time from their busy
schedules and sit together to devise the lecture
flow and activities that has to be carried out.

24. 7. Hard to keep track:
• The teachers have shared responsibility and have an
individual role to play. If any one of the teacher is absent
for some reason then the whole session will be
jeopardized.
8. Takes time to develop:
• Teachers will have to refer many books and talk to
several veteran teachers for designing effective
teaching plan. Thus it takes lots of time and efforts
before even starting a session.

25. 9. Going overboard:
While being creative and lining up to many activities, it
could get way beyond the required amount
10. Resistance from students
a sudden change in the style of teaching will make t
hem confused and they might resist the change.

26. 11. Takes time to develop:
This new teaching style is fresh to students as well as
teachers. Teachers would not have perfect coordination at
the first go, they will have to do many trails for reaching a
most effective format.
12. Expectation of higher compensation:
one is undoubtedly much harder and would require
deep study, time and planning. Thus teachers may
demand higher salary. It could ultimately bring
financial pressure on the educational institute.