Participants
Combination including some or all representatives from:
- teachers,
- administration,
- staff,
- community,
- students,
- parents,
- business partners
Grouping of participants
- Selective,
- Inclusive,
- Large groups,
- Small groups,
Governance and Leadership of participants
- Hierarchial,
- Democratic,
- Boss management,
- Lead management,
- Conflict resolution,
- Decision making,
- Resistance to change,
- Win - Win
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Documentation types for
Enacted Curriculum
- Mission statement
- Vision statements
- Deliberation of beliefs / assumptions / aims / goals
- Principled Procedures
- Common needs
Knowledge documentation
Subjects, social skill, multicultural, special needs, extracurricular, character education, values, ethics, moral, citizenship, emotional, technology, bullying, violence.
Knowledge can be organized around: goals, concepts, objectives, benchmarks, learning outcomes,
All of which can be written as specific or general and published in documents such as:
- Programs of study
- Instructional Examples
- Teacher action plans
- Teacher/student(s) interactions, interactions with materials, ideas, and students interactions with students in different groupings.
- Assessment Procedures
- Handbooks for teachers, students, and parents with policy and procedures related to school, extra curricular activities, management, decision making...
- Time lines
- Resource documents
- Strategic planning, five year plans...
Hidden curriculum
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Decision Screens
Current practices
Knowledge (Standards and non standard)
Resources
- Funding,
- Budget,
- Physical plant building,
- Community,
- Business,
- Technology,
- Teachers,
- Staff,
- Materials
Scientific research
Wisdom of practice
Philosophy good life, citizens, parents, administration, students, teachers, traditions, beliefs, assumptions, new trends
Psychology
- Nature of the student,
- Learning theory,
- Child and adolescent development,
- Motivation
- Grouping of students,
- Social
Sociology
Assessment and evaluation
Community citizens, parents, students, business, rural, urban, gender, ethnicity, diversity
School and classroom environment
Multicultural
Scheduling - Time frames, Calendar year, day
Change
Interactions responsiveness, instructional, conflict resolution, consensus building, behavior management
Graduation requirements, gateways, retention
Class size, school size,
Violence, Safety
Special needs |
Process
- On going assessment,
- strategic planning,
- needs assessment, and other
- reviews of mission, beliefs, principles, assumptions, policy, procedures, outcomes and discuss relevance of mission to identified areas of concern.
Proceduralized through: Discussion, questioning, recognition of problems, identify areas of concern on which to focus and select area or problem…
Change process
Ideas to Consider when Analyzing Possible Curricular Change
- Describe rationale for why change is necessary and how change fits with mission…
- Identify goals
- Identify resources, people who might be involved, possible conflicts, what success could look like, how to measure success, who would evaluate and how.
- Develop plan
- Develop time line
- Describe what flexibility is included for success and relevance to mission
- Implement plan
- On going assessment
- Evaluate
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