The Scarborough (Ontario, Canada) Board of Education's Curriculum Review, Development, and Implementation (CRDI) model employs school improvement teams known as Curriculum Management Teams to design and coordinate school Curriculum Management Plans. Focused interviews were conducted in 1988-89 with all of the secondary schools in Scarborough to provide the CRDI committee with a picture of their CRDI initiatives. In 1991, the interview process was repeated for the 138 elementary schools using 25 pairs of interviewers. The status of various Program Development Curriculum Implementation Projects was determined. Almost one-third of the schools would have made changes in planning and implementation if they could have started the projects over. The status of other curriculum initiatives was studied, and schools were asked how involved they were in school-based curriculum management. Almost all of the schools (88%) have a team dealing with curriculum matters, and 63% have a curriculum management plan. Future directions the schools would like to take are listed. Appendixes include: (1) the focused interview preamble; (2) interview questions; (3) 40 tables of survey results; (4) a list of human resources that schools use; (5) a list of material resources that schools use; and (6) a memorandum to the principals introducing the survey. (SLD)
Authors
- Authorizing Institution
- Scarborough Board of Education (Ontario). Research Centre Program Dept.
- Peer Reviewed
- F
- Publication Type
- Reports - Research
- Published in
- United States of America
Table of Contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS 5
- INTRODUCTION 7
- Program Department a school Curriculum Management Plan which outlined and 7
- In the elementary panel however each school 7
- What is the status of Program Department Curriculum 12
- Staff development programs offered by the Program Department Student 13
- Community-related problems were noted by a few schools 4-8 and 24 14
- Scarborough elementary schools 15
- Major Question 3 - How involved are Scarborough elementary schools in 16
- 56 facilitating and co-ordinating 53 and working with teachers on 17
- What are the future directions for CRDI activities in 18
- Scarborough elementary schools 18
- Suggested System Initiatives that Teams Think the Program Department or Other 18
- Interview Questions 26
- Human 26
- Materials 26
- Interviewer 2 27
- What support should Program Department make available to 30
- Program Department Curriculum Implementation Projects 31
- Other Curriculum Initiatives 31
- CESI 38
- Material Resources Used to Assist Schools in Their Projects 77
