Curriculum Development Essay

1) What important influences led to your choice of a major in the liberal arts and sciences? Throughout the process of deciding what to pursue academically, I realized that I have a lot of varying interests. I am passionate about concepts surrounding identity, culture, place and how these interact with more concrete concepts such as science and technology. I knew I wanted to eventually pursue something which involved agriculture and also environmentalism, which are two topics that I have been…

think that we should be learning and will not take into consideration the other alternatives that are out there. In Hirsch’s “critique of a thoughtworld” he talks about how by 1987 the most of the Britons had converted over to their new education curriculum and after only a small time period were doing better then the British school…

been taught that artists don 't make money. The school boards constantly consider the arts to be the first department to be cut because of how unimportant it is considered to be in a student 's future and how much it does not relate to the main curriculums. "Why do the students need to be creative?" They must ask themselves. "They don 't," they answer back, "creativity won 't help them in life." Oh, but it is actually quite the contrary, my dear school board members, for Creative Thinking is the…

After reading In Defense of a Liberal Education my current perspective on college education has been positively redefined. My conviction that a college education is invaluable to any individual aspiring to rise above the chasm of blue-collar careers remains, yet, In Defense of a Liberal Education has also challenged me to become more aware of the growing monopoly on education and the myriad forms in which it can take place. My perspective on secondary education after reading the book did not…

Amongst Divisions I, II, and III, an average of 66% of student-athletes receive some form of financial aid or a scholarship. Paying college athletes is a controversial topic that has been debated for years. Some people say the student-athletes deserve compensation for their hard work. Others think that they should not because they are at college to learn and they already receive funding in scholarships. NCAA president Mark Emmert says, “These individuals are not professionals. They are…

The Right Influence for Success The term poverty often refers to “the state of someone who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possession. In other words, any individual that lacks a sufficient amount of money to live off of live in poverty. This is quite a huge problem in the Hispanic-based communities as often times we hear stories of Hispanics who grew up poor. These individuals are usually placed in a category by which it is believed that they are more likely to…

A developmental profile is a way to observe and record the occupations that a subject completes in their everyday life. In order to complete an accurate developmental profile, as many areas of occupations as possible, should be recorded. The eight occupations that humans engage in include activities of daily living (ADLs), instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), rest/sleep, work, play, leisure, education, and social participation (American Occupational Therapy Association, 2014, p. S4).…

As I reflect on Bobbitt’s (2013) selection in The Curriculum Studies Reader, there are similarities to curriculum policies and procedures at OCTC, but there is also an omission of the human experience (Bobbitt) that is affecting retention of first-year STEM students. In Scientific Method in Curriculum-Making by Franklin Bobbitt, he provides an example of developing curriculum for vocational education, and this example mirrors the creation and continuation of programs of study at OCTC.…

Doing College the Liberal Arts Way: A Response to, ‘What do you do with a B.A. in history?’ Liberal Education is an approach to learning that empowers individuals and prepares them to deal with complexity, diversity, and change. Ken Saxon, a graduate student from Princeton, presents his ideas about students taking this approach to college in his writing titled, “What do you do with a B.A. in history?” It discusses how students with knowledge of the wider world are more prepared for life after…

individual can become more useful not just in the workforce but worldly, because they have a broader knowledge of the things around them. The knowledge that is learned from a liberal arts education aids students on an intellectual and personal development. These developments are a necessity because it is essential in a global economy. When obtaining different skills, like problem-solving and communication, it can make your learning more complex which…