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
