Curriculum framework

Please submit your paper in APA format via Canvas no later than Thursday, December 9, 2021. You can see a sample paper formatted in APA style at the Purdue Online Writing Lab (Links to an external site.), which also answers questions about in-text citations, references, heading levels, etc. To adequately address this assignment, your paper should be approximately 4-5 pages, double-spaced, 1-inch margins (excluding cover page and references page). Cite appropriately – if you make a claim, you must cite something to back it up, otherwise your claim is an opinion, and opinions without any substantiation are worthless. In any paper, you can’t do it all, so be succinct and parsimonious. No fluff language.

IMPORTANT: For this paper, you are NOT doing a curriculum evaluation. You are creating a FRAMEWORK for evaluating CURRICULUM (what we teach), NOT teacher effectiveness, not student learning outcomes. The overriding question for this paper is: How can I evaluate and improve WHAT my school/organization is teaching in my specific context (the community, students, etc.) to meet the needs of my students and the community? In other words, how can you evaluate your current curriculum and provide a preliminary and never-ending answer to the fundamental curricular question: What knowledge is of most worth?

Please format your paper in the following sections with appropriate headings:

Subjectivity and Context: In this section, please describe your current educational context and how you are situated in it. With whom do you work (demographics, etc.), how do you currently understand curriculum, and how are you personally invested in the curriculum (your professional curricular goals)? You may find Part I of M&J helpful, and feel free to reference the other course readings as you see fit.

Potential Strategies and Specific Techniques: Based on the context you provide in point 1 above, what specific strategies are you thinking will help you evaluate the curriculum and provide the requisite information to make decisions about what to modify, add, delete, etc.? To what extent would you like to rely on external and internal strategies? What about mixed approaches? When thinking about this, I DON’T want you to just replicate what external entities might require you to do. This is your “dream” evaluation plan. Based on your professional expertise, what strategies, would YOU like to use to evaluate curriculum?

This section will comprise the bulk of your paper; chapters 4-8 of M&J could be very helpful.

Issues, Reporting, and Learning: Here, you can briefly describe issues/potential issues that you have encountered, or anticipate encountering regarding evaluation. Finally, whom do you regard as the most important audience for the reporting of your evaluation, and how might your evaluation strategies contribute to ongoing learning about curriculum and professional development? Chapters 9-11 of M&J could be helpful here.