Avoiding Curricular and Organizational White Elephants in Public Schools and On Campus. Teacher Education Forum [electronic resource] : Volume 3, Number 1 / James M. Mahan.
A pre-planned team approach to educational change is described to maximize the chances that education majors and public school students willfully receive the types of improved learning experiences new curricula and organizational innovations promote. Public school and college change agents participa...
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| Summary: | A pre-planned team approach to educational change is described to maximize the chances that education majors and public school students willfully receive the types of improved learning experiences new curricula and organizational innovations promote. Public school and college change agents participating in an action lab sponsored by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development listed 16 impediments to exemplary curricular and organizational change, ranging from the lack of knowledge of how to use and evaluate innovative programs to reluctance to relinquish leadership or influence in an old program to a colleague who will champion the new program. No single person, department, school, or agency can hope to effectively manage all of the components of a major educational innovation. Educational specialists, teachers, principals, student teachers, area supervisors, university and state education department personnel must all work in pre-planned ways recognizing their unique contributions in the process of innovation. Roughly, there are five phases meriting attention in an installation plan: (1) identifying local educational needs and searching for several solutions; (2) deciding on the best solution and how to implement it; (3) gaining wider acceptance of the solution and preparing for use; (4) supporting, monitoring, and maintaining effective, continuous use of the solution; and (5) development of a continuous means of evaluation. (DMT) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED128320. Sponsoring Agency: Bureau of Educational Personnel Development (DHEW/OE), Washington, DC. Contract Number: OEG-0-72-0492(725). ERIC Note: For related documents, see ED 097 306, ED 108 871, ED 109 654, and SP 010 391-405. |
| Physical Description: | 15 p. |