hello ladies i just joined this web site and i am currently perusing a degree in civic education and cultural studies.i would like to find what is it that you feel curriculum developers and implementers alike must consider in order to develop a curriculum that will achieve national ideologies. your consideration is highly appreciated.

I like the idea of the literacy coaches getting a week long training and planning and teaching the new curriculum before all of the teachers are expected to teach it. They also continually meet with the district level and the staff continually to work on "how to teach" the curriculum. In our district a few teachers are barely given time to pilot in the spring and the next fall we are all expected to teach the new curriculum. We are also not given the materials until right before school starts and sometimes not until after school has started. We are all swimming upstream with no one who really knows anything about the curriculum. This makes it very difficult to all be teaching the same things like the school in the video was able to do.

Yes, they need to be able to alter it to the needs of the classroom.

It was a 6 minute video, just an overview.... No more infused than your post....

I like the idea from the teacher towards the end of the video. "We don't have to talk about what we're teaching anymore because we're all teaching the same thing. We get to talk about the how - how to make it better for kids." Good lessons for future implementation.