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ED254913 EA017574

Title: Curriculum Change from the Grass-Roots.
Author(s): Martin, David S.; Saif, Philip J.
Pages: 17
Publication Date: June 1984
Notes: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (Chicago, IL, March 22-26, 1985).
Available from: EDRS Price MF01/PC01 Plus Postage.
Language: English
Document Type: Reports--Descriptive (141)
Geographic Source: U.S.; District of Columbia
Journal Announcement: RIEAUG1985
Target Audience: Administrators; Practitioners

The key to successful curriculum reform is a broad-based, systematic decision-making process directed by teachers. Common approaches to curriculum development are haphazard and tend to produce superficial change. An approach that gives teachers a personal and professional stake in its results, however, can generate fundamental and lasting reforms. Following introductory passages, a 3-year curriculum development model based on the above concept is outlined step by step. Important features of the model are three teacher-administrator curriculum committees; advice from teachers at large, the community, and professional consultants; pilot testing by specially trained teachers; formative and summative evaluation; and an unspecified mechanism for sustaining the reforms achieved. A case study traces the
application of this model in a laboratory school and reports the results achieved to date. A 14-item bibliography is included. (MCG)

Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas); *Change Strategies; *Curriculum Development; Curriculum Guides; Elementary Secondary Education; Laboratory Schools; *Participative Decision Making; *Teacher Participation
Identifiers: Kendall Demonstration Elementary School DC