Part I – Individual Preparation
Before entering into your team work, you will want to address the following scenario on your
own:
You have been asked by the ministry of education or government agency related to education to
be a member of a curriculum committee in your subject area.
They have asked you to put
together a document highlighting the key areas of reform. Where do you begin?
Will you
conduct research? What is the first thing you are going to do? What are the starting points of
such a project?
Will you be involving other parties in the development of the curriculum and if
so, who and why?
Write down some ideas about tackling this project using the questions above as prompts, as
well as anything else you want to include.
Do some research to support your approach.
Once you have your resources together create a
Mind Map that will help illustrate your ideas. Use the contents from this Unit to help inform
your work.
On a single page, choose the three (3) most important points you feel are necessary when
starting a curriculum reform project in your milieu.
explain your positioning in 2-3 sentences,
embed some images, resources or create a Mind Map and then be prepared to share them with
your team.
MS word has some preloaded images that can help you create your own Mind Map:
MS Word Insert Smart Art
Mind Map Resources
•
What is a Mind Map? http://www.mindmapping.com/mind-map.php
• Creating a Mind Map in MS Word https://mindmapsunleashed.com/learn-to-create-amind-map-in-word-heres-how
Here is an example of how to get started:
As a curriculum developer for Grade 10 high school English, I would begin by organizing the
following 3 details:
• I would like to spend some time looking at the current Grade 10 English curriculum
document
•
I would like to organize a sub-committee made up of teachers, parents, administrators
• I would like to conduct a research project involving Grade 10 students studying their
issues/concerns with the current curriculum
As a grade 10 English teacher here in Ontario Canada,
I would need to spend some time
studying current policy.
Though I have been teaching it for many years, I feel I do not have a
strong grasp of the objectives. We have a literacy test for students in Grade 10 that measures
their knowledge of Grade 9 subjects and with this standardized test in play,
I feel as if English
teaching has become more of preparing students for the test rather than instilling critical
thinking skills and knowledge-based learning. A sub-committee would help me determine how
the adults feel about Grade 10 English.
Asking students may also help me determine how the
students feel about the test, the classroom experience and the teaching skills of me and other
Grade 10 English teachers.
Rubic:
Compose a
curriculum onepage plan, share it
with a group, then
revise the plan and
create a response
based on the
exchange.-
Exchanges ideas with
group and report makes
connections to course
content and milieu
providing details and
examples. Reflection
section provides
specifics about the
exchange process.
Written
communication-
No syntax, spelling or
grammatical errors
making the paper very
easy to read.
APA Formatting-
Accurately uses APA
formatting consistently
throughout the paper,
title page, and reference
page.
Resource
Requirement-
Uses more than the
required number of
sources with correct
APA citation format.
Number of pages-
The number of pages
slightly equals the
required number of
pages (2)
