Integrating Curriculum Format with Developers and Levels of Development
To integrate what has been said about curriculum format, developers, and development, refer to Figure 18.6.
When the developers are either outside the school system or from the district level and the curriculum is in a tighrly prescribed format, development is primarily imitative, characterized by teachers following the course of study.
When the developers are intermediate teams of teachers led by district specialists and the curriculum is written with objectives and suggested activities, development is primarily imitative, characterized by teachers revising and adapting the course of study to their immediate situation. When curriculum developers are teams of teachers using specialists as resource persons or individual teachers with a results only curriculum format that identifies what students should learn and leaves activities to the teacher, then development is generative, characterized by ongoing creativity,