Lesson Eight

Determining the Curriculum Content

Introduction:

In this lesson you will be introduced to the part of curriculum development that most people are familiar with.....selecting the content and objectives to be taught in a course. This process requires the use of another advisory committee that should be made up of teachers or/and industry personnel who are experts in the field of study. Decision making strategies appropriate for dealing with a lot of information should be used when working with this committee. This lesson introduces you to many of these strategies as well as the need to consider limiting factors such as resources and facilities. Again we will look at the model North Carolina follows but please feel free to post "the way it is done" in your state on our discussion site on Moodle.

 

Objectives:

  • Examine various strategies for determining the curriculum content.

  • Consider constraints and concerns associated with selecting a content determination strategy.

  • Given a scenario, select the best content determination strategy.

  • Discuss strategies used in North Carolina to determine the content of an agricultural education curriculum.

Readings:

  • Review the Procedures Manual for the Development of North Carolina Standard Course of Study site again. Does DPI mandate the way in which curriculum content decisions are made in the modification process?

  • V-TECS is a cooperative effort between state agencies to create catalogs of performance objectives.

  • Read Chapter 6 and Chapter 7, located in Moodle

  • Review Figure 6-6 on page 161 of the reading. Be able to describe the similarities and differences of the content determination strategies. This is located in Chapter 6 reading located in Moodle.

Powerpoint Presentations:

Download this week's presentation:

Lesson 8 presentation

Assignments:

  • Using the same project you addressed in Phase I and Phase II, determine who you would invite to serve on the advisory committee to determine the curriculum content. Make a list of these folks and a short explanation of why they were chosen. Then decide which content determination strategy you would use in working with this group to have them determine the curriculum content for the course. Then write up a short synopsis of how you would have them meet and work together integrating this decision making strategy. Explain any constraints that would have to be considered by this committee. Please upload in Moodle.

Plugins to third party applications found in this lesson such as Quicktime, Powerpoint, Word, Adobe, etc can be downloaded from the AEE 529 course syllabus.