Essays on Curriculum Development

No school operates without a curriculum. Fundamentally, aA curriculum is an essential part of the education system (Bradford, Kenneth, & Helen, 2017). A well-set curriculum contributes enormously to a good education. Additionally, it eases the learning process for the teachers and the learners. However, various schools have various curriculums set by various people in diverse ways. Nevertheless, quality education remains the core purpose of all the curriculums in education institutions (Armstrong, 2006). This paper is oriented towards comparing curriculums of different states, districts, and schools to the research of the best practice. Most successful schools are those that comply with ...

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to determine how curriculum impacts students who are considered as at risk. In addressing this research question, it is quite implicit to first determine the prevalence of at risk students. The introductory part of the paper provides a statistical overview of the status of the country’s students who are considered as at risk. The population considered in this paper is only limited to students who have not yet graduated from high school. It also provides a background on how curriculum on pre-college education was developed, particularly in the United States. It also ...

Integrated Literature Review

Directorship on Child Care Introduction Childhood is an important stage of human development in which proper guidance are necessary in order to ensure that a child’s welfare is being addressed. In many ways, the work of a program director encompasses a difficult role in terms of regulations and program strategies that aims to have a positive influence towards child development. In this discussion, the role of a director in child development will be explored by examining literatures that articulates the topic on teacher’s needs, ethics, leadership, roles and responsibilities, and best practices. Directors are institutional leaders that ...

The workplace curriculum should engage all people targeted by the learning programs including the workers and the instructors. Thus, a curriculum should involve designing programs, applying and reflecting on their success as well as revising designs. However, some aspects of the curriculum development pose challenges in workplaces. Some of those challenges and their possible solutions are summarized below.

Topics posing the most challenge in workplace

E-learning is one of the methods that present key challenges in workplaces. Despite its increased use, the application performs poorly regarding employees’ motivation. That is because it mainly fail to address the learners and organizations’ need for success (Wang, Ran, Liao & ...

The search objects

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This is an article which advocates for anti-bullying. The author of this article argues that there is need for parents to teach their children to mind the implication of their words and actions on the lives of other people. It further explores that a leader is made and so if one wants his children to be a good leader in future he must teach them not to bully other children. This article has helped me to have a smooth learning because I learnt the need to respect other students without discriminating them.

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Introduction

Cross-cultural decision making skills have been recognized to be increasingly vital to military and defense operations (Johnson & Friedland, 2009). The day-to-day operations of international military forces, in their interaction with different cultures as they work overseas, require intercultural competence to make decisions that are both appropriate and culturally sensitive (Johnson & Friedland, 2009). Cross cultural competency (3C) is accomplished through three unique steps: Cultural self-awareness, suspension of judgments and biases, and the development of skills that fit within domains of a new culture (Selmeski, 2009). Already, educational measures are being implemented by military colleges to promote 3C in military ...

Cross-cultural decision making skills have been recognized to be increasingly vital to military and defense operations (Johnson &Friedland, 2009). The day-to-day operations of international military forces, in their interaction with different cultures as they work overseas, require intercultural competence to make decisions that are both appropriate and culturally sensitive (Johnson & Friedland, 2009). Cross cultural competency (3C) is accomplished through three unique steps: Cultural self-awareness, suspension of judgments and biases, and the development of skills that fit within domains of a new culture (Selmeski, 2009). Already, educational measures are being implemented by military colleges to promote 3C in military ...

A curriculum is a set of courses and the content that is offered in the learning institutions. It consists of the experiences and practices that enable students to mature to responsible people in the society. A curriculum is rigid and founded on a general syllabus, which recommends the content to be taught and at what age. Depending on its context, a curriculum has set goals and objectives and entails all the skills, understanding, knowledge and attitudes that the learner must develop. It also has well described methodology of the process of evaluation and assessment of the learners. It is important for Curriculum ...

Introduction

The academe is an ever growing field and just like any other institution or business company, it has to adapt with the changes that society and other significant factors may impose. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate highlights regarding my personal viewpoints about the development of curriculums and several processes underneath it. Sure, there are a lot of ways to learn but one can never disregard studying in universities and institutes as a means of learning. Even, with skill-based professions, early learning plays an important factor too. Here are some of the key points I was able to ...

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For curriculum development, it is a requirement that, as a principle, one gets to know what needs to be developed and understands the ways through which he will achieve the same. Past research on effective leadership has always portrayed the principal as an instructional leader in terms of curriculum development (Olivia & Gordon 2013). However much curriculum development has been named as a crucial task by past researchers, many school principals do not head it in their list of priorities in their schools (Olivia & Gordon 2013). It would be important if principals in schools worked hard to see to it that they develop ...

Introduction

The paper will be focused on the discussion of the Pre-kindergarten Elementary Math’s Curriculum developed and adopted by the Pre- kindergarten school. The mechanism towards the achievement of any mission or a vision of the school is pegged on the existing e curriculum employed and implemented by such schools. The school mission statement and the vision statement are directly linked to the goals and objective that a given school aims at achieving. The underlying factor in Pre-kindergarten school is the need to excel and produce student that can match the job market (Olivia & Gordon, 2013). Despite the several attempts ...

Literature review

The relationship established between the teachers and the students in of paramount importance in the success of any learning institution (Mujis & Reynold, 2010). The teacher plays a significant role in the establishment of this productive working environment that will make the students perform in the best way. Mujis and Reynold say that efficient management of a classroom entails proper discipline, sufficient motivation of students and class preparedness among others. They say that the success of any teacher is dependent on classroom training, organization and management as they help in planning hence preventing potential problems. Strategies on arranging physical space, using good ...

Mid-Term

Cope Bloom’s Taxonomy in Mathematics Teaching Bloom’s and Anderson’s Taxonomy This paper discusses a brief history and background of the original Bloom’s taxonomy established in 1956 and the revised Bloom’s taxonomy by Anderson et al. in 2002. It attempts to explore how the taxonomy of learning in the cognitive domain is applied in a specific teaching field such as Mathematics. In 1956, Benjamin Bloom headed a committee of educators to establish a systematic hierarchy in classifying educational objectives. They published their findings in a book, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals (Bloom ...

Phase IV: Discuss a Process for Curriculum Reform

Introduction This paper will be focused on the process, timeline and strategies that I will follow in order to properly reform the Pre-kindergarten Elementary Math’s Curriculum developed and adopted by the Pre- kindergarten school. As previously established in Phase III, there are two primary changes that must be made in order to achieve proper compliance with the CCSS – making clearer distinctions between instructional and activity time in the math’s courses, and ensuring the school curriculum meets the criteria for research and evidence-based curriculum based on the CCSS.

Process, Timeline and Strategies

The process itself will be divided into two major ...

Validation of Principal Efficacy Survey– Rationale for Adding New Questions to the

ABSTRACT In the process of validating principal self-efficacy connected to the corroborated Megan Tschannen-Moran Survey, important gaps in the questionnaire exist. The academic work presented here provides the essential and missing questions needing asked by principals in assessing the efficacy of his/her performance as an administrator, innovator, and advocate for quality educational practices in the 21st century. These suggested questions look at principal management abilities, consider the diversity of the demographics of public school learners and their families, professional development necessary for instructors' ability for enhancing teaching, and the critical acknowledgement educational technology. Key Words: principal, self-efficacy, ...

INTERDICTION

The study of Arts Education has been looked down upon for the past few decades in Saudi Arabia. More emphasis have been directed towards sciences such as engineering, medicine and mathematical courses. This is a problem that is prevalent in this kingdom to the point of pushing the ministry of higher education to consider reviewing the curriculum by developing an Art Education curriculum. This problem adopts a Discipline-based Art Education as the backbone of this project. The ministry of higher education is responsible for investigating, exploring and highlighting the merits associated with this program on developing Art Education in our institutions ...

Introduction

Curriculum and curriculum development has very serious political implications. This is because many stakeholders are involved and affected. Balancing the political interests of the stakeholders is of great concern if the curriculum is to meet its objectives (Carl 121). This paper will delve into the issues of curriculum and curriculum development in the context of societal needs and political implications.

Discussion

Many stakeholders are involved in the development of curriculums. Many more want to have their stake curriculum and curriculum development. However, not everyone can be involved in curriculum development. The following stakeholders should be control, dictate and have an ...

Whether or not homework serves to improve the academic performance of the student has been a question of contention in the field of social sciences for decades. Homework, being the extra work given to students in the form of assignments, cannot be assigned a single definition considering that not all the students tackle the task from home (Hallam & University of London, 2004). Even so, it is referred to as homework because it is not part of class work, but rather an extension of the same. The merits and demerits of homework revolve around time and the effect of such work on ...

In any educational institution, the main aspect to consider is teaching or knowledge delivery. This has led to several educational philosophies some of them being: progressivism, perennialism, essentialism and Reconstructionism. From personal experience in the field of education delivery, I can comfortably claim that my mode of delivery in class is reflective comparison, a universal philosophy that has roots in almost all the other philosophies. After randomly determining four interviewees, I shared information with them regarding my philosophy and from the discussion; I was able to deduce some similarities and radical differences which explained the different impacts that our ...

Socio-Economic and Ecological implications to Class Management

Education is a complex system that constitutes numerous sub-systems, which work towards a common goal. The socio-economic and ecological factors that affect education require an analysis to improve the framework of curriculum and therefore the Victorian system of education’s socio-economic and ecological factors need a review with the intention of improving it. Socio-cultural and economic dimensions are an integral constituent of education because each child who joining the educational system belongs to a society and culture, and the child has an economic status. The social factors usually include the environment, movement in the society, interaction with different communities just to mention a ...

Blogging as a Learning Activity

As Information and Communication Technologies advance and reach more aspects of everyday life, there are significant changes in the way that people learn. The teacher/student paradigm is significantly affected and there is a major shift in our understanding of how people access knowledge. Children, especially teenagers, are continually exposed to the effects of ICT’s and this should be a new opportunity for learning. Besides the need to learn how to use ICT’s, there is a real opportunity to introduce all sorts of educational contents in a different way: one that is closer to the student´s life and interests. The learning ...

A curriculum refers to prescribed and defined course of studies that students must pass through in order to pass a level of education (Ornstein, 2003). In elementary school, high school or college, the term curriculum may also refer to the courses required to pass a schooling stage or the overall offering of courses. The following paper describes the forces that influence the school curriculum, and how they influence it. The description will be done through an analysis of the main influencers of curriculum namely the government, community, parents, staff, big business, technology, schools council, higher education and the examination board.

The government

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Alternative Approaches to Curriculum Evaluation

A curriculum involves a set of events designed to have an educational consequence. A subject matter such as history or art is not a curriculum. Subject matters have to be changed into educational events in order to count as curriculum (Claus, and Pia, 2008). A curriculum is essentially as a series of educationally beneficial activities, which happen in the classroom. The resultant consequences of a curriculum can be wider than what was originally intended by its developers. Evaluation should use instruments that measure both the ancillary and intended outcomes. Educators understand that a gap often exits between the intention of a curriculum and its actualization. ...