What is the Curriculum/Program Development Process?

What leadership will you offer?

How does it work in your organization? Share with your group…..

Glatthorn’s Model

School Board Citizens’ Curriculum Advisory CouncilSuperintendent

Curriculum Planning Council

Task Forces

Curriculum Writers

Principals

Instructional Planning Teams

School Curriculum

Council

Do you have these components?

Organizational components (1-15) needed to accomplish effective curriculum work :

1. District org structure for central curriculum planning

2. District org structure for developing curriculum3. District org structure for citizen input4. District long-term plan for developing

curriculum5. District requires groups developing curriculum

to submit specific plans for accomplishing this task (Are plans monitored?)

6. Written Board policies delineating its role in curriculum development

7. District written curriculum goals8. District written vision of excellence for

curriculum

9. Written, systematic district process for developing and evaluating curriculum

10. Systematic district process for aligning instruction with written curriculum, texts and assessments

11. Systematic district process for monitoring the curriculum12. Systematic district process for implementing the curriculum13. Each school has its own goals, vision and written program of

studies14. Classroom teachers develop yearly plans, courses of study

and integrated units15. District audit assesses the quality of the delivered curriculum

Who could/should/might be involved in the curriculum

planning process?• Citizens’ Curriculum Advisory Council• Curriculum Planning Council• Curriculum Task Forces• Curriculum Writers• School Curriculum Council• Instructional Planning Teams

What about me?

Who’s Involved? What do they do?

Citizens’ Curriculum Advisory Council

• Superintendent and assistant superintendent for curriculum AND members appointed by the Board with input from school administrators

• Council acts in an advisory capacity to School Board• Advise Board on curriculum policy• Foster communication by meeting with individuals and

community groups concerned about the curriculum• Hold hearings on controversial curriculum issues,

communicate recommendations to Board• Confer with Curriculum Planning Council and individual

Task Forces to share community beliefs and opinions about curriculum issues

Who’s Involved? What do they do?Curriculum Planning Council

• Central Office staff, school administrators, professional support staff, teachers (selection based on knowledge of district, ability to plan, knowledge of current curriculum practices, credibility with colleagues

1. Organize Planning Council, set schedule, choose leadership, determine how decisions will be made

2. Provide leadership in identifying educational goals and developing a vision of curriculum excellence

3. Explicate the district’s curriculum guide development process

4. Develop and submit budget recommendations for curriculum work

5. Arrange for necessary leadership training and staff development

6. Identify a standard format for the curriculum guides

7. Identify and implement curriculum evaluation processes

8. Develop processes and materials to ensure the curriculum is effectively implemented

9. Conduct a needs assessment to identify priorities for developing curriculum guides and related materials

10. Appoint and provide training for Task Forces that will develop the actual curriculum guides

11. Monitor the work of Task Forces

Curriculum Planning Council continued…

Who’s Involved? What do they do?Curriculum Task Forces

• One principal from each level of schooling, a central office supervisor, several teachers

Select people based on:– Knowledge of the subject area for which they are

responsible– Ability to produce work on schedule– Knowledge of the district’s curriculum

development processes– Influence with classroom teachers

They develop the new curriculum(but not necessarily all alone)

Who’s Involved? What do they do?Curriculum Writers

• They assist the Curriculum Task Force with writing the curriculum

Select members based on– Knowledge of the subject– Ability to write clearly and effectively

Who’s Involved? What do they do?School Curriculum Council

• School administrators and teacher leaders• Makes the major decision concerning school-based

curriculum development• Provide leadership in program restructuring and

development tasks• Develop guidelines for Instructional Planning Teams

Who’s Involved? What do they do?Instructional Planning Teams

• Teachers in schools who work together to implement the curriculum

• Their tasks include development of:• Yearly plans based on the curriculum guide• Units of study derived from the guide and yearly plans• Materials to individualize the curriculum• Materials to be used in the classroom

What about the student voice?

Curriculum Development Cycle

• Planning -- appoint Task Forces, develop knowledge base, orient teachers, develop Hallmarks of Excellence, collect data and input from teachers

• Production --manufacture materials including scope and sequence charts, developing guides, creating materials to support guides

• Piloting -- partial implementation• Implementation -- full implementation

Leading the Curriculum/Program Development Process

What type of leader are you?

What are your beliefs in people?McGregor’s Theory X - Theory Y

Are people generally capable?

Can they be trusted to do a good job?

Will they want to do a good job?

Are they capable of doing a good job?

How much supervision and oversight do people require?

How do you run meetings?(concern for people or task)

Blake and Mouton Managerial Grid

1,9 country club

People

Task0

9

9

1,1 impoverished

9,9 team

9,1 produce or perish

5,5 middle-of-the-road

Principles of CollaborationDavid Straus

How to Make Collaboration Work

• Stakeholder involvement

• Consensus building

• Process design

• Facilitation

• Group memory

Stakeholders

• What are they?• Why are they important?• How do you identify them?• How do you involve them?• What should be their

roles/responsibilities?• What are the consequences for

non-involvement?

StakeholdersWho should you involve?

• Those with formal power to make a decision

• Those with power to block a decision

• Those affected by the decision• Those with relevant information or

expertise

How do you build consensus?Phase by phase!!

All must be in the same phase, at the same time, if the process is to work

1. Perception

2. Definition

3. Analysis

4. Generation of Alternatives

5. Evaluation

6. Decision Making

Problem

space

Solution

space

Attend to Process DesignPathways to Action Model

ProcessDesign space

Visionspace

Problemspace

Solutionspace

Implementationspace

Agenda Planning

You can only be in only one space at a time

Figure out your desired outcomes/what you want to achieve in the meeting

Facilitation: Meeting Roles & Responsibilities• Facilitator• Recorder• Manager/chairperson• participant

Interaction Method -- Shared Responsibility

Everyone in the meeting shares responsibility for making sure that everyone stays in role, thereby ensuring individuals don’t overstep their function and manipulate the group.

Group Memory

• We can only remember so much (7-10 items, give or take a couple). By using a paper to record group memory, we can see what we have said and then move on.

What is the Curriculum/Program Development Process?

What leadership will you offer?

Write this in your Curriculum at a Glance booklet….