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Curriculum Leadership Professional Development

Youngstown City Schools

Randy L. Hoover, Instructor

Course Topic Outline

Spring 2013

1/23/13

1. Teaching Purpose(s).

a. Empowerment as doing right by the students.

b. Deskilling as doing wrong by the students.

c. Raising achievement scores.

2. Teaching as a:

a. Moral Act,

b. Political Act,

c. Psychic Surgery Act.

2/6/13

3. YCS Achievement Performance in Context.

a. Study Overview:

i. Median income.

ii. SPWE.

iii. Free/Reduced Lunch.

iv. Overall Regression Analysis.

2/13/13

a. WOPT.

b. Particulars of Urban Teaching & Learning.

v. Value & Role of Cultural Capital.

vi. Role of perceived Relevance & Meaning (Purpose).

vii. Language Experience.

viii. Physical & Mental Wellbeing.

ix. Self Competence.

b. The Great Not-Secret Secret of Raising Scores.

2/20/13

4. Curriculum: What the students have the opportunity to learn.

a. Intended Opportunity v. Actual Opportunity.

b. Aspects of Curriculum:

c. Overt Curriculum.

d. Hidden Curriculum.

e. Null Curriculum.

2/27/13

5. Empowering Mind-Brain Learning Model.

a. Role of Experience in Learning.

b. Intellectual Engagement.

c. Interest & Effort.

d. Self-interest.

3/6/13

6. Instruction: How the students get the opportunity to learn (or not).

a. Terminal Knowledge.

b. Expeditious Knowledge.

c. Instrumental Knowledge.

i. Associative.

ii. Interpretive.

iii. Applicative.

iv. Replicative.

3/13/13

No Class—YSU Spring Break.

3/20/13

7. Unit Planning as Functional Curriculum Realized.

a. Nesting Standards in Thematic Unit Plans.

b. Maintaining principles of the Learning Model.

i. The Project Method.

ii. The Role Method.

iii. The Self Method.

3/27/13

8. Fundamentals of Assessment for Empowerment.

a. Critiquing Authentic Assessment:

i. Formative.

ii. Summative.

b. Achievement Test Preparation.

i. Teaching to the test.

ii. Teaching for the test.

4-3-13

9. Prof’s Choice

4/10/13

10. Self-Critique of Curriculum & Instruction.

a. Deconstruction.

b. Validating Questions & Issues.

c. Peer Involvement.

4/17/13

11. Empowering Curriculum and OTE/Value Added.

4/24/13

12. T.B. A.

5/1/13

13. Reflection & Dialogue.

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