Chapter 13 - Curriculum Development and Implementation



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INTRODUCTION

Curriculum Development

Learning is enhanced when curriculum and instruction integrate student experiences with the development of meaning. Iran-Nejad, McKeachie, and Berliner (1990) state, "The more meaningful, the more deeply or elaborately processed, the more situated in context, and the more rooted in cultural, background, cognitive, and personal knowledge an event is, the more readily it is understood, learned, and remembered" (p. 511).

Here, you will find links to sites that provide answers to important questions on curriculum standards. Among these are links to Web sites that contain information on specific national and state standards.

http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/curriculum/vectors/standards.html

How Curriculum Implementation Occurs

Implementation as a Change Process - Here is an excellent article on the change process http://www.sedl.org/change/issues/issues42.html

From your textbook and Internet reading about the function of Curriculum Change, Why do teachers and administrators tend to resist any kind of Curriculum Change? (see particularly pages 464-467

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