Curriculum Development Across the Curriculum

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Chapter 14 Curriculum Development Across the
Curriculum

• What are some of the curriculum changes that are
  improving writing skills?
• state standards support the writing process
• interest in using writing as a way of learning
• writing involves a process of interactive and
  recursive stages
• --prewriting
• --drafting
• --revising
• --editing
• --publishing

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• skilled writers need multifaceted writing
  competencies
• Glatthorns recommends teacher-centered process
• --identification of continuing uses
• --identification of special uses
• --identification of essential qualities

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• What are some of the curriculum changes that are
  improving thinking skills?
• major focus on engaging students with content
• metacognition
• more emphasis on staff development
• Six Correlates of Effective Schools
• --clearly stated and focused school mission
• --safe and orderly climate for learning
• --high expectations for students, teachers and
  administrators

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• --opportunity to learn and student time-on-task
• --instructional leadership by all administrators
  and staff
• --positive home-school relations
• instructional design used to complement effective
  schools process
• three important thinking skills strategies
• --independent thinking
• --self-managed learning
• --self-directed learning
• important to emphasize integration of thinking
  skills
• thinking skills need to be introduced, reinforced
  and built on

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• What are some of the curriculum changes that are
  improving speaking skills?
• improvement and refinement of skills needed
• instruction should be direct, frequent and
  sequenced
• instruction should address communication needs in
  everyday situations
• direct instruction should be provided, with
  supervised practice, constructive feedback and
  more practice in a variety of situations
• instruction should include all communication
  contexts

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• instruction should be integrated with all other
  communication arts

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• What are some of the curriculum changes that are
  improving listening skills?
• listening-first source of communication
• can be improved through direction instruction and
  practice
• instruction should
• --address communication needs in real-life
  situations
• --involved direct teaching and practice
• --include all communication contexts
• --be integrated with other communications arts

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--be interdisciplinary and across the
curriculum --be incorporated on cocurricular
programs --be sensitive to diversity
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• How has the computer changed the curriculum?
• need to connect the implementation of technology
  with the changing learning contexts needed by
  students
• the computer as an integral tool in curriculum
• --provides many avenues to learning
• --benefits the process of managing assessment
• the computer as the curriculum
• --internet serves as a rich resource for
  curriculum development
• --delivers curriculum

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• --can assist curriculum design
• the computer as manager of the curriculum
• --developing the curriculum
• --facilitating and monitoring the learned
  curriculum
• --aligning the curriculum
• --evaluating the curriculum
• student achievement and technology
• --increased student writing
• --higher-quality student writing
• --enhanced cooperative learning
• --enhanced integration of curriculum

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• --greater application of learning style
  strategies
• --increased applications of cross-age tutoring
• --increased teacher communication
• --greater parent communication
• --enhanced community relations
• --enhanced global learners
• classroom technology
• --advances education
• --enhances student opportunities for exporation
• --provides a transition between present and
  future forms of learning

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• three reasons for computers in the regular
  classroom education
• --make learning all subjects earsier
• --reach hundred of telecommunication networks
• --need for computer literacy and occupations
• developing local community awareness
• --increased communication between the school and
  community
• --awareness of importance of technology for
  students future
• --formation of school-to-work programs
• --increased monetary support of schools

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• school technology goals
• --coordination of school-based services and
  resources
• --development of guidelines for equipment use
  and program design
• --sharing of successes with community
• --use of student assessment data
• state and national levels of awareness
• --coordinated plans needed between state and
  national organizations
• --creation of national and state standards
• --sharing of information for national technology
  initiative

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• strategies for success
• --community involvement
• --development of quality technology leadership
• --finances for technology
• --emphasis on incorporating computer learning
  into the classroom
• --curriculum should use technology, but not be
  driven by it
• --staff development
• --assessment and evaluation standards should be
  included
• --well-planned public relations program

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• future challenges
• --engaging students
• --making teacher comfortable using technology
• --changing school administrators role
• --melding computers and other technologies into
  the classroom
• media technology
• --effective integration of media throughout the
  curriculum into the instructional programs
• --students need to become fluent users and
  producers of media

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--students need to use media resources
effectively in everyday learning
process --students need to demonstrate awareness
of manipulative power of the media --media
literacy needs to be in national school curricula