SIN FRASER UNIVERSITY

Summer Semester 2003 ?

EDUC 471 ?

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Jerry Clarkson

Curriculum Development: ?

Office:

TBA

Phone: 604-461-9592

Theory and Practice

Fridays

Email: jclarkso@sfu.ca

8:30-12:20 in EDB 7500F ?

D01.00

PREREQUISITE:

60 credit hours

Course Description

Teachers in the public schools of British Columbia are not often required to develop and implement a complete

curriculum without direction from an administrator or the Ministry of Education. The ends to be achieved are

often prescribed or at least strongly indicated by the Integrated Resource Packages or locally developed unit

plans. So too are instructional methods. Nevertheless, teachers must choose among ends to be achieved and

accommodate teaching strategies to particular situations. On occasion, they may even find themselves developing

units and themes on their own. As teachers go about planning their lessons, then, they must at least be able to

choose wisely. This course will provide theoretical and practical ideas that will help you choose well and be able

to develop a curriculum should the need arise. It will also provide you with the theoretical framework to

comment on curriculum proposals that are presented to you during your career.

Assignments

Choose From:

Responses to questions arising in class

2. Implementation of a planning strategy with critique

Mid-term Paper

I. uired Readings

John D. McNeil, 2003, Curriculum: The Teacher's Initiative. Prentice-Hall.

Ralph W. Tyler, 1949, Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction. The University of Chicago Press.

(Additional readings to be provided by the instructor at cost)