Chapter 5 Notes

Chapter 5 Notes

What is Curriculum?

·      Planned content and objectives of language arts, mathematics, science, and all other subject areas available to students constitute the formal or explicit curriculum.

Assessing Student Academic Performance

·      National Assessment of Educational Progress

·      International Comparisons

Additional Influences on the Curriculum

·      Textbooks- More than twenty states have a textbook adoption process that involves reviewing textbooks according to state guidelines and then mandating either specific books that schools must use or lists of approved textbooks from which schools must choose.

Additional Influences on the Curriculum

·      Cooperative Learning in classrooms is another trend influencing what is taught in the schools.

·      Chapter 5 Notes

·      Curriculum

·      • Planned content and objectives of language arts, mathematics, science, and all other subject areas available to students constitute the formal or explicit curriculum.

·      Student academic performance

·      • (NAEP) National Assessment of Educational Progress assessments have been conducted periodically in reading, mathematics, science, writing, history, geography, and other fields. 

·      Curriculum controversies 

·      • Multicultural advocates take the position that the current school curriculum needs to be broadened to better reflect the contributions of people of color. 

·      -Cynthia Mandujano