Curriculum leadership chapter 14 powerpoints

Glatthorn, Boschee, Whitehead, Boschee, Curriculum Leadership, 3rd Edition
© 2012 SAGE Publications
Chapter 14
Curriculum Developments
Across the Curriculum
Curriculum workers have become
concerned with changes
transcending a single discipline.

 Writing to learn, improving thinking skills,
speaking, listening, and the integration of
technology in the curriculum require attention to
cross-curriculum/interdisciplinary investigation and
integration.
Significance of Cross-Curriculum
Work

 Writing is a process that involves 5 distinct steps:
1. Prewriting
2. Drafting
3. Revising
4. Editing
5. Publishing
Writing to Learn

1. Everyone has the capacity to write, writing can
be taught, and teachers can help students
become better writers.
2. People learn to write by writing.
3. Writing is a process.
4. Writing is a tool for thinking.
5. Writing grows out of many different purposes.
11 Writing Principles

6. Conventions of finished and edited texts are
important to readers and therefore to writers.
7. Writing and reading are related.
8. Writing has a complex relationship to talk.
10. Literate practices are embedded in complicated
social relationships. Composing occurs in
different modalities and technologies.
11. Assessment of writing involves complex,
informed, human judgment.
11 Writing Principles

 There is a need to help teachers help students to
improve their critical thinking.
 A major focus area for improving thinking is the
engagement of students with content.
 Metacognition should be taught as a deliberate
mental activity.
 Students should exchange ideas.
Thinking

 Independent Thinking – requires students to
address subsets of related questions and to
develop essential skills outlined in the curriculum.
 Self-managed Learning – requires that students
have outcomes to achieve.
 Self-directed Learning – requires that each day of
the week is set aside for various exercises (e.g.
trips, exercises, etc.).
Integration of Thinking Skills

 Instruction in speaking should:
1. Address the communication needs of students
that arise from everyday situations;
2. Provide direct instruction, supervised practice,
constructive feedback, and more practice in a
variety of situations;
3. Include all communication contexts;
4. Be integrated with the teaching of all of the other
communication arts strands;
Speaking - Curriculum Development

5. Be interdisciplinary and across the
curriculum;
6. Offer opportunities for co-curricular programs
that aid students in refining their speaking
skills; and
7. Be sensitive to the diversity of culturally
appropriate speaking behaviors.
Speaking - Curriculum Development

 Listening is a skill that can be improved through
direct instruction and practice
Listening – Curriculum Development

 Instruction in listening should do the following:
1. Address communication needs of students that
arise from real-life situations
2. Involve direct teaching of listening strategies and
practice of those strategies in a variety of
listening situations
3. Include listening in all communication contexts
Listening – Instructional Practice

4. Integrate with the teaching of all of the other
communication arts strands
5. Be interdisciplinary and across the curriculumBe
incorporated in co-curricular programs that aid
students in refining their listening skills
6. Be sensitive to the diversity of culturally
appropriate listening behaviors
Listening – Instructional Practice

 Interim assessments, defined standards, and
data-driven instruction mark the benefits of
technology and curriculum.
 Principals must realize that technology is a
powerful instructional management tool.
 Web-based applications and the Internet allow
students to access real-world research.
Technology and the Curriculum

 Technology influences elementary teachers:
 Availability and access to technology
 Teacher preparation and trainings
 Time
 Leadership
Technology and the Elementary
Teacher

 Enhancing problem-solving skills
 Enhancing writing processes and content
 Increasing teamwork and collaborative inquiry
 Widening the scope of instructional opportunities
 Increasing student career opportunities
 Enhancing higher-order thinking skills
Academic Benefits of Technology

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