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Curriculum Essentials: A Resource for Educators, 2/E
Jon W. Wiles, University of North Florida

ISBN-10: 0205418244
ISBN-13: 9780205418244

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper; 240 pp
Published: 06/16/2004

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A brief and invitingly priced text, Curriculum Essentials, Second Edition, serves as an excellent resource and guide to help pre-service teachers learn everything they need to know about (K-12) curriculum development.

This well-organized, concise text covers the most important, basic ideas for understanding the area of curriculum. The text contains compilations of important dates and events, definitions of curriculum, names to know in curriculum study, and an introduction to the philosophies and theories influencing curriculum development. With all this material, Curriculum Essentials describes in detail the development process beginning with concept development and ending in classroom lesson plans.

Recognizing the recent diversity of cultural values and the manifestation of new technologies, the newest edition addresses the changing nature of curriculum toward more creative, less mechanical programs. The text includes applications of these ideas in programs for young children, disadvantaged learners, exceptional education, gifted and talented programs, bilingual students, preadolescents, and adolescent learners.

  • Contains critical collections of essential knowledge such as names, dates, books, research, documents, and theories.
  • Includes an annotated bibliography of fifty major books on curriculum development.
  • Offers more than 80 illustrations and figures to delineate the entire development process, including models, paradigms, and planning instruments.
  • Demonstrates application in current school programs such as bilingual and early childhood education.

  • Each chapter now begins with a narrative chapter introduction that highlights the key concepts and skills to be presented.
  • Applications and case studies have been added to each chapter for greater usability.
  • Updated/added coverage of standards (Ch. 3), testing (Ch. 2), and using the Internet (Ch. 3 & 4).
  • A new section on court decisions that have influenced curriculum has been added (Ch. 2).

Each chapter begins with “Overview” and concludes with “Summary,” “Suggested Readings,” and “Endnotes.”

Table of Figures

Preface.

Using This Book.

1. Ideas About Curriculum.

Dates of Significance.

Definitions of Curriculum.

Names to Know.

Essential Books for Study.

Annotated Bibliography.

Ideas and Theories About Curriculum.

2. Models, Documents, Laws and Research.

School Models.

Important Documents.

Critical Legal Rulings.

Paradigms and Conceptual Models.

Research Bases.

3. The Development Process.

The Development Process.

Criteria for Decisions.

Role of Philosophy.

Goals and Objectives.

Standards.

Curriculum Designs.

Alignment, Maps, frameworks.

Needs Assessments.

Content Designs.

Instructional Linkage.

4. Links for Curriculum Improvement.

Leadership.

Systems.

Change.

Management.

Committees and Groups.

Climates.

Staff development.

Evaluation.

Technology.

5. Applications.

Young Learners.

Disadvantaged Learners.

Preadolescent Learners.

Exceptional Learners.

Gifted or Talented Learners.

Bilingual Learners.

Adolescent Learners.

Virtual and Home Schooled Learners.

The Special Case of Inclusion.

Postscript.

Appendices.

A. The Self-Taught Reader Bibliography

B. Glossary of Common Terms

C. Curriculum Development Resources

D. Teaching Outlines

Index.

Curriculum Essentials, Second Edition, serves as an excellent resource and guide to help preservice MJY1teachers learn everything they need to know about KMJY2-12 curriculum development.

This well-organized, concise text covers the most important, basic ideas for understanding the area of curriculum. The text contains compilations of important dates and events, definitions of curriculum, names to know in curriculum study, and an introduction to the philosophies and theories influencing curriculum development. With all this material, Curriculum Essentials describes in detail the development process beginning with concept development and ending in classroom lesson plans. Features

  • Contains critical collections of essential knowledge such as names, dates, books, research, documents, and theories.
  • Includes an annotated bibliography of fifty major books on curriculum development.
  • Offers more than 80 illustrations and figures to delineate the entire development process, including models, paradigms, and planning instruments.
  • Demonstrates application in current school programs such as bilingual and early childhood education.

Jon Wiles is Professor of Education at the University of North Florida. He is the author of twelve textbooks in the areas of educational leadership and curriculum and instruction. MJY1 I would close up preservice, no hyphen MJY2 This should be an en-dash not a hyphen

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