A premier collection of high-quality articles from leading voices in education, curriculum planning, and development.
KEY TOPICS: Access 72 articles from historic greats and current leaders in the field of education. Understand the bases for curriculum leadership—including social forces, human development, and learning styles. Learn about developing, implementing and evaluating curriculum. Examine pre-K, elementary, middle school, and high school curricula in action. Consider how topics such as professional accountability, high-stakes testing, media literacy and Common Core State Standards impact curriculum planning. Analyze practitioner-authored case studies and discuss issues with institutional and system-wide curriculum implementation.
MARKET: For principals, superintendents, educational leaders, and curriculum specialists.
A premier collection of high-quality articles from leading voices in education, curriculum planning, and development.
Curriculum Leadership: Readings for Developing Quality Educational Programs, 10/e combines high-quality articles with cases that illustrate pre-K through high school curriculum development in action. Featuring 72 articles from historic greats and current leaders, this book balances seminal works with contemporary perspectives. New to this edition are 38 recently published articles spotlighting technology, Common Core State Standards, high-stakes testing, and assessment. Each chapter is filled with background theory, articles, case studies and essays that show school leaders how to plan quality educational programs.
Forrest Parkay