Organizing and Implementing the Curriculum Chapter 9

Past Organizational Structures Elementary level –Graded school –The activity curriculum –Continuous progress plans –Open education/open space plans

Middle school level –Previous proposals of elementary and core curriculum

Senior high level –Subject matter curriculum –Broad fields curriculum –Team teaching –Differentiated staffing –Flexible and modular scheduling –Nongraded high school

The organizational curriculum plans are not restricted to any one level of education. Any and all can be successful to some degree or they can fail depending on the set goals and objectives of a particular school district and its employees desire to make whatever plan work.

Current plan Elementary level emphasis –Teaching basic and thinking skills –Providing for students special needs

Middle school level –Programs to meet needs of preadolescents including interdisciplinary teams

Senior high level –Establish a quality comprehensive model –To furnish a number of alternatives both in and outside of the school system for higher requirements for graduation

The Future Elementary level emphasis –Basic skills –Blending of traditional and nontraditional modes

Middle school level –Integrating the curriculum –Interdisciplinary teams –Block/rotating schedule

High school level –Magnet schools –Alternative schools –New technologies

Instructional Goals and Objectives Chapter 10

Three Major Domains of Learning Cognitive - the world of the intellect Affective - the locale of emotions, beliefs, values and attitudes Psychomotor - the territory of perceptual motor skills

Categories of Learning Cognitive taxonomy –Knowledge –Comprehension –Application –Analysis –Synthesis –Evaluation

Affective Taxonomy –Receiving –Responding –Valuing –Organization –Characterization by value or value complex

Psychomotor Taxonomy –Perception –Set –Guided response –Mechanism –Complex overt response –Adaptation –Origination

The instructional goals and objectives are derived from the curriculum goals and objectives. Instructional goal - is a statement of performance expected of each student in class phrased in general terms without criteria of achievement.

Instructional objectives - a statement of performance to be demonstrated by each student in the class, derived from an instructional goal and phrased in measurable and observable terms.