Curriculum implementation strategies and practices

Curriculum Implementation

An implementation of a new curriculum in school is difficult, especially within a group of educators who are used to the old method of teaching-learning process, thus afraid of trying out new strategies and techniques that would further improve the learning process of the students. Jesup High School Principal Roark Horn admits this fact however found what he thought would be an appropriate strategy in addressing this issue. Horn, encourages the students to learn through teaching and "move beyond just telling what happened." The students' responses were great such that they have engaged themselves into self-evaluation and exercising their critical thinking skills. (Franklin, 2002)

Technological innovations have made tremendous changes even across educational systems and policies. There had been learning programs or soft wares that had been developed in order to facilitate and enhance the learning process as well as ease the teachers from the arduous tasks of preparing supplementary learning materials for children.

One aspect of computers that is now being implemented in some schools such as the Web-based learning has started a revolution in instructional design that is providing new opportunities for education. Instructional design for educational purposes is the systematic design of teaching and learning environments as well as instructional systems (Shu-Sheng, 2004). The proper integration of which may however, be found too difficult due to some of the teachers' bigoted opinions regarding change.

Nevertheless, as a school principal, it is necessary to create a planned strategy in order to make the integration successful. Some forms of resistance that may be encountered would be the non-readiness of the teachers in implementing the computer software.

In order to successfully implement a computer software program in math, engaging the teachers into learning the technology is deemed necessary as the initial part of the implementation. Negative feedbacks and criticisms cannot be avoided at this point, especially upon knowing that it is necessary for them to undergo training on how this program will be implemented, including its advantages for them as teachers.

Educators, especially those who have been practicing the profession for a long time have a greater tendency to abhor going through the learning process once more. As a principal, they should be encouraged to undergo the learning process again and become students, therefore, joining their trainings would promote confidence in learning new ideas once more.

As the teachers become students, the idea of the students becoming teachers at some point upon the implementation of the program would somehow alleviate their fear of integrating the use of technology in their learning process. Within the 30 minutes math lad, they should be allowed to explore the program and share among their classmates what they have learned and how they have learned it.