Curriculum Improvement

Curriculum Improvement Proposal 

The name of my school district is Macon County Elementary School located in Oglethorpe, GA 31068. Instructions: Over the course of the semester/term, each student will have participated in activities (i.e., Curriculum Evaluation Plan & Curriculum Analysis) which facilitated the evaluation of his or her classroom curriculum. These activities were designed to support your investigation of the instructional content you use, curriculum impact on student performance outcomes and methods for identifying measuring the level of alignment between planned and learned classroom curriculum. The Curriculum Improvement Proposal activity requires that the Ed.S. Candidate take the information accumulated in the previous activities (i.e., Curriculum Evaluation Plan & Curriculum Analysis) and generate a three year plan for improving his or her classroom curriculum. This improvement proposal will have a foundation in the baseline data gathered in the Ed.S. Candidate’s professional practice and it will have a supporting framework of curriculum theory/approach, design and considerations covered in this class. In a discussion narrative format (using APA style), each Ed.S. Candidate will: {1} provide a description of the curriculum selected for evaluation and reflectively discuss the curriculum in relation to each of the following probes (use your text as a resource) • Using chapters 1& 2 as your guide, select the curriculum approach(es) and philosophy(ies) that best describe your selected curriculum. Discuss your reaction to theoretical/philosophical foundation of the curriculum, e.g., supportive, non-supportive, conflicting perspectives, alignment of perspectives. • Using chapter 6 as your guide, discuss in-depth your selected curriculum in the context of the six (6) curriculum design dimension considerations (scope, sequence, continuity, integration, articulation, balance) • Using chapter 6 as your guide, discuss your selected curriculum in the context of the three (3) representative curriculum designs (subject-centered, learner-centered, problem-centered); include in your discussion an in-depth reflection of your selected curriculum’s association with one (1) of the representative curriculum designs {2} provide a description of your educational program and classroom • describe your classroom o chairs, tables, desks, equipment, technology, media center • describe your program o grade level(s) o self contained general education or special education or media center o collaborative teaching? inclusion? o curriculum focus o classroom management plan o provide any information that will help the reader understand your program and it’s unique characteristics {3} provide a description of the school community and students enrolled in his or her educational program • describe your students o number, age range and exceptionality (including gifted) categories (if appropriate) of students • describe your school community o socio-economic level of the community o school size (number of teachers, students, support staff, related service professionals — school counselors, school psychologists, speech language pathologists, school nurse) o school resources o parent involvement o community involvement o any other information that will help the reader understand your school and it’s unique characteristics {4} develop a three year plan for addressing the curricular needs of his or her program and/or school • identify from the results of your Curriculum Analysis five (5) student performance outcomes related to cognitive or affective outcomes that you would like to address in relation to curriculum improvement. • from these five (5) student performance outcomes (SPO)generate five (5) curriculum objectives that you will use as basis for your improvement proposal. The objectives must be measurable statements with clearly defined outcomes. • discuss how you will realistically work towards achieving each of these 5 curriculum objectives over the next three years providing specific steps for accomplishing each of your stated objectives and including resources needed • use the following table format for your 3 year plan: *********Please look at the following uploaded Documents********