1. Curriculum, Standards, & Assessment
Ms. Tracy

2. Bell Ringer
What do you think the root causes are in low-performing schools?
Log-on to the computers and go to:
Click Principles of Teaching
Click “Lesson Plans and Activities for the Week of October 6th…..”
Open the PowerPoint entitled, “Curriculum, Standards, and Assessments”

3. Agenda Discuss “Waiting for Superman” Discuss visible curriculum
View sample curriculum maps
Discuss “Curriculum Differences” assignment
Complete “Curriculum Differences”

4. Learning Objectives
I can determine what formal curriculum is taught in schools.
I can analyze how the invisible curriculum influences learning.
I can describe how forces shape school curriculum.
I can explain how technology has affected the curriculum.
I can explain how textbook publishers and state adoption committees “drive” the curriculum.

5. What is curriculum? Think about the word curriculum.
In your own words, write down what curriculum means to you.
Create a picture in your mind of curriculum. What does curriculum look like?
Draw a picture.

6. Categories of Curriculum
Visible curriculum
Hidden (Invisible) curriculum
Extracurriculum

7. Visible (Formal or Explicit) Curriculum
The curriculum found in the textbooks, curriculum guides, courses of study, and other formal educational experiences.
The explicit curriculum includes everything teachers are expected to teach, learners are expected to learn, and what schools are held accountable for.
In Kentucky, these documents are the program of studies for each class, the core content for assessment, and academic expectations.

8. CURRICULAR TIME LINE TIME EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY FOCUS OF CURRICULUM
Seventeenth Century
“Two Rs”
Secondary education for males only; reading and religion
Eighteenth Century
Life in the present
Reading, religion, morality, writing, and arithmetic; vocational skills; academy open to females
Nineteenth Century
Secular education
Secondary education in Latin or English curriculum
Early Twentieth Century
Progressive education
Creative expression; junior high school developed; secondary education for all students

9. CURRICULAR TIME LINE (continued)
EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY
FOCUS OF CURRICULUM
1940s-1960s
Discipline-oriented
Congress funded programs in science, math, languages, and guidance
1960s-1970s
Social concern and humanistic education
Gender-based courses; multiethnic curricula
1980s
Back to basics
Academic subjects emphasized; increased discipline; elimination of electives; competency exams
1990s
Widening of the core curriculum
Expansion of the core curriculum to include more people of color and women
Today
Common Core Standards
College and career readiness.

10. Curriculum Maps

11. Curriculum Maps

12. Curriculum Differences
Log-on to Edmodo.
Select the small group “Curriculum, Standards, and Assessment”
Open the document entitled “Curriculum Differences”.
Visit the corresponding websites to research how curriculum varies district by district and state by state!