1. The philosophy and rationale statement for a school program must augment all of the
following except:
2. A major function of the curriculum council is to:
3. If you want to get the most competent teachers, with respect to curriculum, to serve on the
curriculum development group, the best method for the curriculum council to use is:
4. One potential problem with peer-selection of teachers for curriculum development teams is:
5. Once a subject-specific statement of philosophy is approved by the board of education it is
given to the writing team responsible for all of the following except
6. Which of the following group processing techniques is characterized by being able to reach
consensus without fact-to-face contact?
7. The Telstar technique is most like:
8. In developing a scope and sequence the committee must contain:
9. The group processing technique that should be used by a writing team in developing the scope
and sequence is:
10. Once the board has approved a new curriculum
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11. The statement to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to design and conduct
experiments is a
12. With respect to curriculum design the preferred model is:
13. When daily lesson plans reflect a commonality for the same grade level we have
14. A district elected to revise only the third grade mathematics program. The indicator of
effective curriculum development most strongly violated was:
15. A school district revised its K-12 social studies program, but funded only 80% of the
required instructional materials. The indicator of effective curriculum most strongly violated is
16. When a philosophy of education and theory of curriculum permeate the entire school district
the indicator of effective curriculum addressed is
17. Which of the following would violate the indicator of planned change?
18. As part of developing curriculum and working to close the achievement gap, school leaders
need to demonstrate a unified belief in the families who reside within their communities. Which
of the following is not a way to help celebrate community diversity?
19. Which of the following is a characteristic of effective multicultural curriculum?
20. Which of the terms below is the first out of sequence?
21. Which of the following is not an advantage of using the voluntary method for choosing
teacher representatives to the curriculum process?
22. Which of the following is an advantage of using peer selection?
23. Verbs used for analysis does not include which of the following?
24. When evaluating a text physical features which of the following is not one of the
characteristics?
25. Which of the following is a stage for the objectives scope and sequence?
26. True or False. Setting priorities continues to be an important role of any successful leader as
is the ability to delegate leadership in formulating curriculum change.
27. True or False. Administrative selection of teachers for curriculum development teams is
recommended when peer selection is not practical.
28. True or False. All subject-specific program committee members must have a thorough
understanding of the mission and exit outcomes, and at least a little understanding of the district’s
vision.
29. True or False. The development of a rationale for a new curriculum is done only by the
subject-specific program committee.
30. True or False. Effective evaluation is an integral part of the learning process.
31. True or False. The work space for a writing team should be compact and efficient.
32. True or False. Members of a curriculum writing team should serve on the materials selection
committee.
33. True or False. Exit outcomes are the same as instructional objectives.
34. True or False. A program goal does not contain specific content and behavior.
35. True or False. Using learning in new and concrete situations is called application.
36. True or False. Verbs that can be considered those that evaluate would also be those used to
judge.
37. True or False. Maintenance stage means provisions are made to reinforce learning outcomes
and authentic tasks.
38. The recommended length of time for a typical curriculum cycle is _______
39. Identify two disadvantages of using volunteers for curriculum development teams.
40. The recommended timeline for return of the statement of philosophy developed in the first
step of the subject-specific program committee and distributed to the schools for feedback
is_______
41. The group processing technique that is used to encourage divergence by individuals is
________________________
42. The best time to develop and write the scope and sequence is ___________________.
43. When a writing team completes the draft document it is distributed to certain non-writers.
The maximum time they should have for comments is _________.
45. When teachers have access to curriculum above and below their grade level we say there is
________ curriculum continuity.
46. When all buildings in a district have teacher representatives on curricula committees it shows
the indicator of effective curriculum called _______________ has been met.
47. When controversies that occur during curriculum development are based on the nature of the
decision, not the person who made the decision the indicator of effective curriculum being met is
_____________________.
48. Putting together to form a new whole could be called ___________.
49. Preparatory activities prior to the explicit teaching and learning are called
__________________ stage.
50. When educators focus on __________ practices, risk taking, and a rich curriculum, schools
can accomplish great things (Burris & Murphy, 2013-2014).
51. Describe the recommended composition of a district curriculum council and indicate under
what conditions the composition may be changed and how it could be changed.
52. The text discusses the steps in structuring a subject-specific program committee. Describe
step one and indicate who would be on the committee. Include what is meant by a cooperative
approach among districts and what type of program that would be easiest to implement.
53. Describe the second through fourth steps in the process of developing a new K-12 curriculum
using a subject-specific program committee.
54. You are working in a school district that is unionized and has strict rules about seniority in
terms of class assignment. Talks are currently underway for a new contract, but they are not
going well. Unfortunately the state has mandated that the social studies program K-12 must be
revised this year. The text identified five ways of choosing teacher representatives on curriculum
development teams. Which one would you use and why?
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55. Describe the Dialogue technique.
56. Describe the Fishbowl technique.
57. Distinguish between the Fishbowl and the Telstar techniques.
58. Describe the process after a curriculum writing team completes the draft of the new
curriculum.
59. Differentiate between vertical curriculum continuity and horizontal curriculum continuity.
60. Examples of resources include online and mobile devices, applications, software and
courseware, textbooks (digital or standard), activities, novels, nonfiction books, anthologies,
collections, handbooks, dramas, selected readings from reserved material in the library or
classroom, printed handouts, kits, periodicals, transparency sets, video recordings, and audio
recordings. Which of these do you believe will be most interesting to today’s students? Why or
why not?
61. A school district undertakes a curriculum revision and asks for teachers to volunteer their
time. Due to budget restraints the district is not able to provide adequate secretarial support.
Once the board approved the new curriculum they were not able to fully fund the instructional
materials. What indicator of effective curriculum development is being violated and what do you
think will happen?
62. The superintendent of a school district tells the community that the district has outstanding
long range planning because the language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies are all
reviewed on a five year bases. Do you agree? Why or why not?
63. Differentiate between long range planning and planned change as used in evaluating the
effectiveness of curriculum change.
64. A curriculum worker is told that there needs to be decision making clarity and comes to the
conclusion that there must be a decision making model to use. Is the worker correct? Why or
why not?
65. Develop a learning outcome and an authentic task that would be appropriate in your subject
area or grade level.
66. When conducting materials selection, what are the main considerations?