Full Description
Provides 25 individual strategies, currently used worldwide, for promoting educational development-strategies that schools, districts, states, and nations will employ in transforming their systems for the new global age Gives readers a worldview of the most important function in education-curriculum development, including the role of assessment in planningKEY TOPICS: Curriculum in a new global age; philosophy and curriculum design; managing curriculum development; standards-based curriculum; curriculum development in the classroom; elementary school programs and issues; middle school programs and issues; secondary school programs and issues; global perspectives of curriculum; technology, curriculum, and the future; MARKET: Teachers, administrators, and all educators involved curriculum development and planning
Contents
Chapter One Curriculum Development in a Global Age Chapter Two Philosophy and Curriculum DesignChapter Three Foundations of Curriculum Planning Chapter Four Large Scale Curriculum Development Chapter Five Curriculum Development in Schools Chapter Six Curriculum Development and the New Technologies Chapter Seven Elementary School Programs and IssuesChapter Eight Middle School Programs and IssuesChapter Nine Secondary School Programs and IssuesChapter Ten Global Perspectives of the Curriculum ProcessResourcesResource A Key Organizations Affecting Curriculum DevelopmentResource B Additional Practice ApplicationsGlossaryReferencesName IndexSubject Index
