ED 430 Curriculum and Instruction Spring 2019

January 29, 2019 Reading this chapter ‘Educational Goals and Purposes: Developing a Curricular Vision for Teaching’, combined with my previous work experience as a college advisor, I have some thoughts on the professional development of new teachers..  Although I only took such simple courses such as career guidance and career planning for my students, I strongly agree with the author that ‘the real mysteries of teaching were hidden to them as children. They were never involved in the intensive planning that is required for even one day of teaching, much less several weeks and months. They never had to develop relationships with children and parents who did not speak their language. They never had to work with colleagues who had very different perspectives, opinions, and personalities.’(p169) As a teacher, especially a new teacher, you spend several times more time preparing a lesson than you actually do. Even if you are familiar with the content of the lesson, how t...

Educational Goals and Purposes: Developing a Curricular Vision for Teaching This particular article mainly talks about the importance and necessity for teachers to learn about curriculum planning. First, I think, the selection of the materials is a vitally important step in the whole process of curriculum planning. Today, teaching materials are increasingly diverse. Teachers have different understandings of each text and topic, which may lead to different teaching methods and consequences. It just like us, we all have our own thoughts and comments after reading each article. However, the content of our published blogs will be largely different so that if someday we analyze this article as a teacher to our own students, our teaching methods will also be different. Therefore, it should be emphasized that when teachers using teaching materials, they should pay attention to the interests of students and strive to create an equitable classroom that supports all students. What...

        Just as this article said at the very beginning, the prospective teacher will quickly find out the real mysterious of teaching were hidden to them as children when they enter the field of teaching. When I was at primary school,  I though that teacher is an easy job and  teaching is just to look through the knowledge of the book. However, as age goes on and after entering the field of education, I realized that teaching is big issue which need to be explored consistently. Just like Aristotle said, “the more you know, the more you know you don't know.”         This article provides illustrations of teaching that is mindful of curricular and social purpose in elementary and secondary schools, and discussed how teachers can develop a curricular vision and the skills needed for curriculum vision and the skills needed for curriculum planning and curriculum inquiry, the role of technology and teacher teacher education approaches. ...

Developing a Curricular Vision for Teaching     The first section of this week’s reading talks about why teachers should learn about curriculum. As what is mentioned in the reading, the textbook writer, curriculum developer or department head cannot know exactly what a teacher must do with the classroom ( Darling-Hammond et al, 176 ), they cannot know more about students’ needs and abilities than classroom teachers do. Therefore, the mandated curriculum needs to be shaped and understood by teachers in order to meet both the needs of students and the demands of curriculum content in teaching., which requires teachers to grasp knowledge of curriculum.     In the second section, educators propose that teachers are required to develop a curricular vision for teaching, which refers to an understanding of different views of curriculum and implied educational goals and the teacher’s role; how to develop and carry out curricular plans; and how to make curricular dec...

       In this passage the author had talked about the importance of curriculum, the reason why teachers should learn about curriculum, develop a curricular vision for teaching, plan a curriculum, make curriculum decisions, consider education goals and purposes to design a curriculum.  Curriculum has many meanings. Curriculum is from New Latin in which language it means “ a course of study. ” To many people, curriculum is the subjects that students must study, such as Chinese, Math, English, Biology, or the list of topics that included in a course or syllabus. In education , a curriculum is broadly defined as the totality of student experiences that occur in the educational process. The term often refers specifically to a planned sequence of instruction , or to a view of the student's experiences in terms of the educator's or school's instructional goals.      So , why should teachers learn about curriculum? Curriculum...

Reading this first chapter of Tyler's book Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction (1949), I found myself thinking a lot about two particular curriculum issues I've been dealing with at my own school (a community college). The first is a major overhauling of course objectives across all of the courses we offer. It has been years since we've done a mass revision (if it's ever been done...) and our instructors are struggling with the task. They're not only struggling with the task because it is a huge undertaking to revise objectives across all courses, but they're also struggling with the task because many of them are not trained in writing curriculum. The "subject specialists" Tyler writes about (pp. 26-27) are the ones designing and writing our curriculum: the teachers at my college are, indeed, subject specialists, people who have studied and taught for years--decades--within a very specific discipline. And very few of our teachers have d...

What Educational Purposes Should The School Seek To Attain: Educators claim that the purpose of what they teach is to help develop an educated human being. However is it entirely necessary for students to learn about our current objectives. Can one still be educated by the other experienced that have taken place in their lives. We live in a world full of knowledge and opportunity, where any person can learn. These subject help student feel more prepared for college. When I first got into a postsecondary institution, there was a lot of testing, reading, and following specific instruction. Students are fed this false dream of earning a degree which will lead to a life of employment benefits and comfortable wages. When in fact the only thing we obtain is our degrees as well as knowing how to take test and follow instruction. After investing approximately 20 year into schooling young adult are often even more confused and some even depressed due to the false promises of earning a ba...

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