Guiding Curriculum Development - The Need to Return to Local Control

This book’s primary purposes center on the need for placing the responsibility for determining student curriculum and academic achievement the local school level whereby school personnel determine the individual student’s personal interests and needs and design a curricular program for each student that fosters personnel success.

List of contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Curriculums Missing Link: The Need to Return to Local Control
Chapter 2: Foundations of Supervision and Curriculum in America
Chapter 3: Teaching and Learning: Promoting Student Achievement
Chapter 4: Determining Learning Standards
Chapter 5: The School Curriculum: Local, State or Federal?
Chapter 6: Supervision: Improving Classroom Teaching
Chapter 7: Organizing for Program Evaluation and Assessment
About the Author

About the author

M. Scott Norton is a former public school teacher, coordinator of curriculum, assistant superintendent and superintendent of schools. He has served as professor and vice chair of the Department of Educational Administration and Supervision at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and as professor and chair of the Department of Educational Administration and Policy Studies at Arizona State University, where he is professor emeritus.

Summary

This book's primary purposes center on the need for placing the responsibility for determining student curriculum and academic achievement the local school level whereby school personnel determine the individual student's personal interests and needs and design a curricular program for each student that fosters personnel success.

Product details

• Authors: M Scott Norton, M. Scott Norton, Norton M. Scott
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9781475827989
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-2798-9
• No. of pages: 170
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Teaching materials, hand-outs; Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Reform, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Curricula, Educational strategies & policy, Curriculum planning & development, Educational strategies and policy, Curriculum planning and development