1. Curriculum Overview
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2. Curriculum Overview What is meant by the term curriculum?
Curriculum and Instruction
Curriculum planning
Criteria for planning, developing, and implementing curricula?
Values and Curriculum Planning

3. What is meant by the term curriculum?
Curriculum has taken on many definitions over the years.
Curriculum as a plan
Curriculum as a practice
Yates, R. (2000). Curriculum overview. Retrieved on January 20th, 2008 from

4. The content, subjects, and design of instruction
Curriculum as a Plan
The content, subjects, and design of instruction
The subject areas and content are provided as a blueprint of instructional content
The basic methods and instructional strategies are laid out prior to the delivery of instruction

5. Curriculum as a Practice
The instruction, classroom practices, and experiences of the teacher and student
Classroom teachers provide their own methods and experiences to the curriculum
Technology
Best Practices
Experience
Students also provide experiences to the classroom
Educational background
Culture
Personal Experience

6. Curriculum and Instruction
Curriculum = what is being taught
Instruction = the way it is being taught
Instruction is driven by curriculum
The design and make-up of instruction is based on the curricular needs of students
Yates, R. (2000). Curriculum overview. Retrieved on January 20th, 2008 from

7. Curriculum planning
Curriculum planning is essential to the continued growth of a school or district
Planning is based on the needs of students, philosophy of the school, and mandates of the state.
Student data can be used to identify areas for curriculum planning

8. Tyler's Four Questions of Instructional Development
1. What are the purposes of the school?
- Goals, philosophy, student population
2. What educational experiences are related to those purposes?
- activities, materials, etc. that will be used
3. What are the organizational methods which will be used in relation to those purposes?
- effective planning of delivery method?
4. How will those purposes be evaluated?
- assessment methods
Tyler’s Basic principles of Curriculum and Instruction (as cited in Wilson’s Curriculum pages, 2005)

9. Criteria for planning, developing, and implementing curricula?
Curriculum choices should be based on:
Academic needs of the school or district
Identified student academic struggles
The culture and diversity of the school population
State mandated standards of instruction

10. Values and Curriculum Planning
Influenced by the location and value system of the community
Cultural values
Economic background of school district
Longer, short term academic goals
Past academic experiences
Yates, R. (2000). Curriculum overview. Retrieved on January 20th, 2008 from

11. Curriculum Quotes
“Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is needed is an individual curriculum for every child.”
Charles Handy
“More important than the curriculum is the question of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given.”
Bertrand Russell
Thinkexist.com. (2008). Curriculum quotes. Retrieved on January 21st, 2008 from

12. References
Thinkexist.com. (2008). Curriculum quotes. Retrieved on January 21st, 2008 from
Wilson, L.O. (2005). Wilson’s curriculum page. Retrieved on January 20th, 2008 from
Yates, R. (2000). Curriculum overview. Retrieved on January 20th, 2008 from