Managing the Curriculum Content

Managing the Curriculum Methods Managing the Instructional Materials

Managing Evaluation Instructions

Role of Technology in Curriculum Implementation

Curriculum Change must be Goal directed.

A strategy for curriculum change involves creating conditions for productive work.

Curriculum change involves a large amount of training.

Change always involves human and emotional factors. It requires many kinds of competencies.

Curriculum change requires skilled leadership.

How people react to proposed changes is greatly influenced by the kind of climate for change that the curriculum leader has created.

Curriculum leaders encounters in getting cooperation stems from the peoples lack of how the change will affect them. He can head off many objections and can develop a plan to present the change.

Staff people can be a great help in preparing to sell a change by explaining technical aspects and demonstrating new techniques.

Peoples objections and knowing these can be drawn out to advantages. People should feel that the change is really best for them.

Introduce the benefits to the people so they will be motivated to cooperate.

People affected by the change have the right to be heard, they should be treated with respect.

How the change has affected the people involved and the willingness to make adjustments help build the climate in which future changes will be initiated.

Two of the most common methods in curriculum change are by means of Work Conference Method and Discussion Groups.
Work Conference Method- a participatory process used to provide the widest possible involvement of the professional staff and the community members. Discussion Groups- important means of providing in-service growth of the school personell.

The teacher who conduct the pilot testing should conduct demo lessons, share syllabi with other faculty, and sere as a resource person before and during the school-wide implementation of the curriculum.

Instructional supervisors do classroom observation, postobservation conferences and conduct or encourage demonstration teaching while the curriculum is being implemented. The teachers play the most crucial role.

Instructional media may also be referred to as media technology or learning technology, or simply technology. Technology plays a crucial role in delivering instruction to learners.

Is the equipment already prepared lesson material available? If not, what would be cost in acquiring the equipment or producing the lesson in Audio or Visual Form?

Is the medium suitable to the learners ability to comprehend? Will the medium be a source of plain amusement or entertainment, not learning?

Will the chosen media fit the set instructional event, resulting in either information, motivation or psychomotor display?

Over-all, does the medium help in achieving the learning objective(s)?

Upgrading the quality of teaching-and-learning in schools

Increasing the capability of teacher to effectively inculcate learning, and for students to gain mastery of lessons and courses

Broadening the delivery of education outside schools through non-traditional approaches to formal and informal learning, such as Open Universities and lifelong learning to adult learners.

Revolutionizing the use of technology to boost educational paradigm shifts that give importance to student-centered holistic learning