Education

A brief and invitingly priced text, Curriculum Essentials, Second Edition, serves as an excellent resource and guide to help pre-service teachers learn everything they need to know about (K-12) curriculum development.

This well-organized, concise text covers the most important, basic ideas for understanding the area of curriculum. The text contains compilations of important dates and events, definitions of curriculum, names to know in curriculum study, and an introduction to the philosophies and theories influencing curriculum development. With all this material, Curriculum Essentials describes in detail the development process beginning with concept development and ending in classroom lesson plans.

Recognizing the recent diversity of cultural values and the manifestation of new technologies, the newest edition addresses the changing nature of curriculum toward more creative, less mechanical programs. The text includes applications of these ideas in programs for young children, disadvantaged learners, exceptional education, gifted and talented programs, bilingual students, preadolescents, and adolescent learners.

• Contains critical collections of essential knowledge such as names, dates, books, research, documents, and theories.

• Includes an annotated bibliography of fifty major books on curriculum development.

• Offers more than 80 illustrations and figures to delineate the entire development process, including models, paradigms, and planning instruments.

• Demonstrates application in current school programs such as bilingual and early childhood education.

• Each chapter now begins with a narrative chapter introduction that highlights the key concepts and skills to be presented.

• Applications and case studies have been added to each chapter for greater usability.

• Updated/added coverage of standards (Ch. 3), testing (Ch. 2), and using the Internet (Ch. 3 & 4).

• A new section on court decisions that have influenced curriculum has been added (Ch. 2).

Each chapter begins with “Overview” and concludes with “Summary,” “Suggested Readings,” and “Endnotes.”

Table of Figures

Preface.

Using This Book.

Postscript.

Appendices.

Index.

Curriculum Development (K-12)  (Educational Administration & Leadership)

Curriculum Essentials, Second Edition, serves as an excellent resource and guide to help preservice MJY1teachers learn everything they need to know about KMJY2-12 curriculum development.

This well-organized, concise text covers the most important, basic ideas for understanding the area of curriculum. The text contains compilations of important dates and events, definitions of curriculum, names to know in curriculum study, and an introduction to the philosophies and theories influencing curriculum development. With all this material, Curriculum Essentials describes in detail the development process beginning with concept development and ending in classroom lesson plans. Features

• Contains critical collections of essential knowledge such as names, dates, books, research, documents, and theories.
• Includes an annotated bibliography of fifty major books on curriculum development.
• Offers more than 80 illustrations and figures to delineate the entire development process, including models, paradigms, and planning instruments.
• Demonstrates application in current school programs such as bilingual and early childhood education.

Jon Wiles is Professor of Education at the University of North Florida. He is the author of twelve textbooks in the areas of educational leadership and curriculum and instruction. MJY1 I would close up preservice, no hyphen MJY2 This should be an en-dash not a hyphen

Allyn & Bacon Digital Media Archive CD-ROM for Education, 2001 Edition
Allyn & Bacon
©2001 | Allyn & Bacon | CD-ROM Only | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205319602 | ISBN-13: 9780205319602
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Responding to Hate at School: A Guide for Teachers, Counselors, and Administrators
Southern Poverty Law Center
©2001 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0130284580 | ISBN-13: 9780130284587

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