Answer to Question #240811 in English for Gaskin

Question

• What is the story of your teaching when it comes to curriculum theory, design or implementation? 
• Who created the curriculum and who administers it? 
• How much influence do you feel or think you have when it comes to curriculum theory and or design? 
• Describe your relationship with the curriculum in your school – is it an active or passive role? Can you adapt or modify the curriculum objectives if situations arise? Do you feel supported in doing so? If so or if not, share your reasons.
• Do you feel that the curriculum is favorable and serves the needs of your students overall?
• What elements of the curriculum do you feel truly work in your classroom?
• What is the greatest curricular obstacle you feel impedes student learning?

Answer 1

Under the umbrella of constructivism, a global shift in the approach to classroom learning has occurred. An important topic in the context of the constructivist movement is how curricular studies should interpret words like "development" and "implementation." Horace Mann is widely credited with inventing our current education system. When he became Massachusetts' Secretary of Education in 1837, he outlined his idea for a system of professional instructors who would teach pupils an ordered curriculum of basic subject. An successful curriculum provides a quantifiable strategy and framework for delivering a quality education to teachers, students, administrators, and community stakeholders. The curriculum outlines the learning goals, standards, and basic competencies that students must show before progressing to the next level. I believe the curriculum is beneficial and meets the needs of my pupils as a whole. Goals, disposition, length, and needs analysis are curricular aspects that I believe genuinely function in my classroom. Negative attitudes are the most annoying and debilitating impediments to change. Teachers may believe that their pupils are incapable of learning or that their parents are unsupportive. — Administrators may believe that the instructors are incapable of working in groups. — Students and parents may believe that their needs are being disregarded.