Part A: Before Reading Prediction

I believe that cirriculum is developed by a group of people (educators, professors, students, business people) who come to an agreement on what is deemed as importance for students to know. Once these ideas are layed out and agreed upon, the group determines the outcomes and indicators as a guidline for teachers in order to acheive the specific knowledge in the classroom. This cirriculum is then distributed to teachers once approved by the ministry.

Part B: After Reading

The school curricula is developed by a team of professionals on 3 levels: federal, national, and local. This team gets together and decided on two main factors: what should/should not to be included in the cirriculum and how much time should be spent on certain things. Once this stage has passed, it goes through a team of experts, then to the Federal government. If the federal government agrees with it approves it, they can implement it into the cirriculum. This is a very long process, hence the social studies cirriculum from 1995 that still has not been updated. My original prediction was close on some factors but far off on others. For example, I predicted the proposed cirriculum had to be approved by the Ministry of Education, not the Federal government. I knew implementing new cirriculum was a complicated process, I just never realized how complicated. My biggest concern is for teachers themselves. Teachers are the ones who work with the cirriculum everyday and live it, yet they don’t have much input in what is in the cirriculum. If they do not agree with the cirriculum, it could be very hard to teach it and be excited about, let alone make students learn and be excited about it.