The Curriculum Revision meeting held on January 24, 2014 was focused on taking a step back and evaluating questions proposed by Dean May to refocus and consider where we are, how we got here and how to strategize where we are going.
The following are the questions provided as a prompt for faculty to discuss:
How has the job of teachers changed in the past ten years?
What have our programs done to address those changes?
• Were the things we did strategic and comprehensive or good patch work?
Do you think that students could explain the relationship between courses in the program?
Do they experience them as developmental interrelated pieces or as distinct, somewhat connected events? Where can a student, faculty member or reviewer find information explaining our programs?
As individual faculty, and as program faculty, what do you wish you could include or do differently that you have not figured out how to?
How has the answer to the question posed over a year ago–what should students be doing in the field when not teaching a lesson–been addressed?
• Would students be able to answer the question? Could they answer why we think the field experience is important beyond the lessons taught?
• Would the expectation be known to supervisors? In writing somewhere?
• How does that nonlesson learning in the field get processed, used, tied back to classes?
What is your greatest fear when thinking about curriculum updates in response to the educational landscape today?
This document has the questions along with comments/feedback from the meeting.