Who should be involved in curriculum development, implementation, and evaluation?
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It depends on what your goals are.  \n\nThe beauty of education, from a teacher's perspective, while being the curse, from an administrator's standpoint, is that teachers have a great deal of ability to subvert changes they do not like.  As such it is essential that you have teacher buy-in to any implementation of curriculum.  This likely means that they will need to have a voice, if not several, in the development stage.  Having an administrative voice is also likely, for practical reasons.  Whether you then chose to have students or parents depends on the level of education and the institution for which the curriculum is being developed.  Asking a 5th grader to design curriculum is not such a good idea, where as a college student could easily be a valuable member of the team.  \n\nAfter it has been developed ensuring it success comes down to 2 things:  1. buy-in and 2. Sticking with it.  Often times it will be the administrators responsibility to get the buy-in from the various stakeholders, including teachers, and parents/students.  As referenced above ensuring that the teachers are behind it is essential if the curriculum is to be taught the way it is designed.  \n\nThe method of evaluation will vary greatly depending on the values of the institution.  Whether it is evaluated through stakeholder surveys, standardized testing, a portfolio, or something else will vary greatly depending on the place, though standardized testing is of course the preferred means in many areas now.
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Your administration should provide you with standards, I would think?  Or ask another teacher for examples?
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Collaborate with you special education teacher.
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A Beka is a really great curriculum. my family used it, and when i eventually when back to school my junior year i was way ahead of my classmates. plus they have so many different ways to use their curriculum. i really encourage you to check it out.
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People who run schools.
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I think : Teachers....Students...and Curriculum.
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Look at the subject index.  There is a general theme of the book that is Problem Management and Developmental Appropriateness.
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abeka book\ni do the video curriculum, its nice.
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mentor\nhelper\nguide\naide
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This excerpt is taken from "It Takes a Community - A Community Guide to the Sure Start Program"\n\nCurriculum\nThe curriculum is probably the single most important component of any educational program. Its primary goal is to provide educators with a framework for helping students become capable learners-that is, children who are skilled developmentally and are motivated to learn.\nSure Start has designated The Creative Curriculum for Early Childhood (Dodge & Colker) as the curriculum of choice. The underlying reason for selecting this curriculum is that it has a proven track record with Head Start programs and military Child Development Programs (CDP): over 18,000 Head Start grantees have successfully used The Creative Curriculum.; it is also the curriculum of choice at most military child care centers. The curriculum focuses on providing children with learning experiences that promote their socio-emotional, physical and cognitive growth. Using Piaget and Vygotsky’s theories of cognition, Erik Erikson’s writings on socio-emotional development, and principles of physical development as its foundation, The Creative Curriculum presents staff with a structure for helping each child grow according to his or her own individual timetable The context for learning in The Creative Curriculum is an environment that supports clearly defined learning activities. The curriculum features 10 activity areas through which instruction is introduced:\nBlocks\nTable Toys\nMusic and Movement\nArt\nBooks\nSand and Water Play\nHouse Corner\nOutdoors\nComputers\nCooking\nIn the curriculum, activities are discussed in terms of their importance to children’s development, what learning objectives are appropriate for children, how the environment can be structured to promote these activities, strategies that can be used to enrich and extend learning, and ideas for coordinating with parents. The goal of the curriculum is to provide guidance for planning, without prescribing a series of set lessons.\nTeachers are thus encouraged to build content around the experiences and interests of the children in their program so that learning takes place in a context that is meaningful to individual children. The Creative Curriculum for Early Childhood fosters creativity in both children and teaching staff. Being creative means thinking of new ideas, obtaining information by asking questions, learning through trial and error, and benefiting from mistakes. Children’s creativity is supported through an environment that encourages them to try out ideas and risk making errors. Teachers’ and Program Assistants’ creativity is supported by a curriculum framework that encourages them to be innovative and responsive to children. By focusing on both teaching staff and children, The Creative Curriculum provides a framework for development in an educational setting in which young children can thrive.\n\nTaken from http://www.dodea.edu/instruction/curriculum/ece/pubs/community/community-portrait.pdf (pages 10-11)\n\nTry looking at this website for a detailed look at the creative curriculum referred to in the above passage:\nhttp://www.teachingstrategies.com/pages/page.cfm?pageid=173
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I would reduce the student/teacher ratio (doubling the number of teachers). Teaching effectiveness is directly related to individual time with each student (that's why Sylvan is so successful...they don't do anything mysterious or magical...they just give that 1:1 time).\n\nI would take direct funding for sports programs and put them in classrooms. Sports programs should fundraise for themselves, just like fine arts and other extracurricular programs have to. That money could pay for salaries, a textbook in every subject for every child, additional support/diverse curriculum, supplies, etc.\n\nIdentify poor teacher prep programs that are cruising on old certifications and shut them down. If the professional training is bad, then the teacher is very ineffective. A teacher is 50% motivation, 40% professional training, and 10% Prozac.
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Hopefully you'll find something in there it's over 55,000 teacher reviews on lessons plans and planning.Best Wishes.  \nhttp://www.lessonplanet.com/login.html?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lessonplanet.com%2F%3Fgclid%3DCMb7rbeRlYQCFSkMGgodz2ATpQ
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There are so many choices!  When choosing or changing curriculum, I have found that books/websites by Mary Pride or Cathy Duffy can help me wade through the plethora of curriculums.  They review curriculums and publish their opinions along with a quick overview.  This is helpful in narrowing the choices.  Once you narrow it down, you can contact the publishers or visit their websites and get samples, so you can really see what the curriculum is like.  So start with Mary Pride or Cathy Duffy, books and websites.
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You should be able to contact the State Department of Education for guidance in providing what ou need for setting up an organization or umbrella program for these types of needs.  A local Christian school might be a great alternative to begin researching your questions and needs as well.  You might also consider a Teacher's Resource outlet store in your area as they may have all the materials you would need to begin the process.  Just some ideas.  May God bless your endeavors.
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Any software, such as CustomDoc, can help make the core training material more customized to a client's needs.\n\nBut designing and developing effective training materials requires the professional services of an Instructional Designer.\n\nHis method looks like this:\n\nAnalysis (of learner needs)\nDesign (of the curriculum)\nDevelopment (of the actual delivery vehicles, whether it's CD-ROM, DVD, instructor-led training, workshops, manuals, etc.)\nImplementation (delivery to a live audience)\nEvaluation (monitoring the actual behavioral chances in the learner(s))\n\nGood luck!
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a decent principal.....we have a bad one at my school and everybody has really low moral.We also hate going because everything is so horrible.\n\nOf course you need good teachers too.Our principal got rid of some of our best.
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What subject?\n\nRemember you need the following components:\n\ncross-curricular (integrate reading and math into a science or social studies unit)\nincorporate multiple learning styles into your activities(reading, class discussion, listening centers, hands-on activities)\nbuild independent learning (student-directed interests and choices, independent projects, peer-led lessons, etc.)