Curriculum

“A curriculum is a series of well-organized and logical entities, which guides the selection of learning experiences and clinical assignments, organizes teaching learning activities and informs the measurement of student performance”(Billings & Halstead, 2016, p. 285). Nursing curriculum is in the process of transformation (Keating, 2014, p. 38).There are multiple forces and issues that influence the direction of the curriculum. It is the responsibility of the nurse leaders to overcome or find…

All through the early day’s education during the Colonial Era 1636 – 1789, religion was the primary focus in teaching. Curriculum additions to religion began in 1638. The move to include ethics, rational thought and one’s political agenda came next. Harvard identified with a strict curriculum that ventured into all of these areas and later added arithmetic and science. Yale came in 1756 and encouraged a higher level of math and sciences at the same time keeping with the early studies. Yale…

Texas Treasures Literature curriculum students continually respond to text through writing activities. At the end of each section they record their responses by writing a personal response. These responses require critical and higher order thinking skills because students answer open-ended questions and utilize summarization, inference and interpreting meaning skills. This allows students to explore their own thoughts and make connections to the text. Throughout the curriculum, students work in…

session requires a thorough understanding of the complex, 3-way relationships that exist between the teacher, the curriculum and the students. This will enable the creation of a lesson that best meets the needs of all the learners in a class. The Curriculum: In order for a curriculum to be suitable for a particular group of students, the teacher must interpret the formal curriculum document and have a complete understanding of the requirements, expectations, learner outcomes, scope of…

which are public school gives proper socialization, diversity of curriculum activities in public school and public school boost up independency and discipline. First and foremost, public school gives proper socialization. According to (Chen.G, 2008) interactions through work with each other will build necessary skills that the children needed in…

experiences and teachings motivated me immediately to apply for the Master’s program in Continuing Childhood Education at St. John’s University. Two years later, I graduated and my collection of skills related to curriculum mapping, instruction, assessment, and collaborative curriculum development strengthened. Yet, I consider myself a lifelong learner and an educator who wishes to keep abreast of new advances in education and work towards improving P-12 education on local and national settings.…

frustrating and scary. The primary challenge is how to help students learn a new way of learning. For teachers that want to embrace the standards, it is essential to acquire knowledge and use a lot of scaffolding for students to understand and make the curriculum more accessible. Having the time to experiment and learn with the student these new strategies is tricky because sometimes there is no time to implement the standards about other content areas. The new generation of teachers that will…

Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change addresses behavioral change on an individual level with the anticipated outcome that the individual experiences changes in attitudes, intentions, and behavior (Iwasiw and Goldenberg, 2015). Each stage is different, but the individual naturally moves back and forth between the stages during the change process. Before the individual entertains the idea that change is needed they are in the precontemplation stage, which leads into the contemplation stage…

system reproduces the organizational system of the capitalist society and expresses the different patterns of socialization that occur within the social class system. Michael Apple views the hidden curriculum through a Neo-Marxist perspective by providing the concept of having both low and high status curriculums of knowledge. (Apple, 1995) The poor and minorities are excluded from high status knowledge. This type of exclusion comes from the ability to filter students into different levels of…

Critical rationalism: this is Poppers theory of knowledge, in which it is explained in few steps for a clearer understanding. Firstly knowledge is about noticing a problem, once the problem has been noticed there has to be something done to solve it this means brainstorming different solutions to solve the problem, this solution will be criticized until only one solution remains to solve the problem further. To understand better Popper’s theory I separated the words and looked at their different…