Teachers present their perceptions when designing and mapping curriculum to implement standards-based instruction and assessment. It appears that teachers are willing but not always able to make curriculum and instructional decisions. Participation of teachers varies from district to district. When curriculum is given to teachers as part of their…

This paper examines teacher accountability and authority in early childhood policy. It reports on data from a study that investigated the influences affecting early childhood teacher decision-making at the preschool level in Victoria, Australia. Using a question raised by Ball "Where are the teachers in all this [policy]?" provided a…

Although professional negotiations have in the past dealt mainly with welfare items such as salary and health benefits, this report contends that it is quite likely that the next major area of negotiations will be that of curriculum. In light of this probable increase in demand to participate in the curriculum decisionmaking process, the author…

A study of 488 teachers in six school districts reveals that teachers' self-reported inclination to follow or attend to curriculums formulated for their districts are highest when the district is the locus of decision making, followed by the school and the classroom as the locus of curriculum decisions. (MLF)

Analyzes the processes used by a group of Australian teachers to make curriculum decisions at the school level. Policies aimed at decentralizing curriculum decision making can be supported only if teachers' expertise is fully utilized in the decision-making process. Unless teachers contribute something that administrators cannot, they will be seen…

This document describes a program in District 742 Community Schools in St. Cloud, Minnesota, called Differentiated Career Opportunities for Teachers. This multifaceted program empowers selected teachers with the authority to make decisions and plan programs for their district and individual schools and, at the same time, to renew their…

This report describes the organization and process of shared decisionmaking at the Mountain View Intermediate School in Beaverton, Oregon. According to the author, involvement in the decisionmaking process in this school is a matter of choice. The individual staff member may choose to implement decisions, become a permanent member of a…

The feasibility of promoting the development of an egalitarian society via a hierarchically organized educational system is discussed. A model for curriculum management which emphasizes teacher and student participation in the decision-making process is presented as a method for making the schools of the West Indies more democratic. (Author/RLV)

Argues in favor of greater student participation in curriculum planning in secondary school. An "interactive" curriculum development model is proposed to accomodate student/teacher participation in curriculum development, based on a phenomenological approach to education and on three examples of curriculum development, which appear to…

The Delphi technique for determining goals and objectives provides for the explicit articulation of the direction in which an institution, organization, or program should go. An example is given of planning a health education curriculum using the Delphi technique with maximum participation on the part of teachers. (JD)

This book is for teachers who wish to have a direct part in planning curricula. Part one discusses principles that teachers can use in making curriculum decisions in their classrooms and some concepts of the purposes a curriculum should serve. Part two outlines types of educational research studies and suggests ways of assessing them. A discussion…

This paper presents information from a series of preliminary asynchronous international conversations across four cultural contexts that focus on enhancing the profile of teachers in curriculum decision making. The paper challenges education systems to match the rhetoric about the place of teachers in curriculum decision making with curriculum…

Responses to a national survey of 233 high school principals about the degree of involvement of various school personnel in five decision areas suggest that only building administrators and teachers have high degrees of involvement in decision areas. (Author/MLF)

The dual role of teachers as in-the-field researchers and independent workers is considered in light of a curriculum development approach that initiates program development at the teacher level, encourages active teacher participation in decision making and research and development, and facilitates flexible planning. An illustrative case study is…