K-12 Curriculum Development

Benefits

1)  Improved Alignment

2)  Improved Communication

3)  Increased Relevance

4)  A Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum

5)  Equitable for all Students

What Does Research Tell Us About Purpose-Driven Curriculum?

Working on the Work (W.O.W.) entails teachers' purposefully creating, designing, identifying, or otherwise making available to students authentically engaging activities, programs, tasks, assignments, and opportunities to practice that result in students learning those things it is determined that students need to learn to be judged well educated.

                                                       -  Phillip Schlechty, Working on the Work (2002)

Many educational programs do not have clearly defined purposes.

                           - Ralph Tyler, Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction (1949)

Leadership involves purposes and direction.  Leaders know the ends toward which they are striving.  They pursue goals with clarity and tenacity, and are accountable for their accomplishments.

As cited by Robert Marzano in School Leadership that Works: From Research to Results. Leithwood, K.A. & Riehl, C. (2003). What do we really know about successful school leadership? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago. 

The attached document outlines Purpose-Driven Curriculum and Instruction (Weber, 2008).

what_is_a_purpose-driven_curriculum.pdf
File Size:	226 kb
File Type:	pdf

Download File

---

Leave a Reply