IGA

 

 

CHICHESTER SCHOOL DISTRICT

 

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT POLICY

 

 

      Curriculum Development must be viewed as an encompassing movement involving the total community – students, teachers, parents, -- working cooperatively to develop a curriculum that offers a wide variety of approaches to education and to provide a more flexible and purposeful approach to the search for an increasingly humanistic education.

 

      The Board will encourage and support the professional staff in its efforts to investigate new curricular ideas, develop and improve programs, and evaluate results.

 

      The Principal under direction of the superintendent is expected to spearhead curriculum development for the school.  The Principal will cause to be set up curriculum committees for the study of curriculum improvements, including the selection of new instructional materials, as found necessary and desirable.

 

      The Board will make final decisions on curriculum change.  The Principal will submit to the Board recommendations developed by the curriculum committees and the professional staff.  The Board in reviewing and evaluating curriculum recommendations may solicit additional community opinion.

 

      In the spring of each academic year, the curriculum committees will meet to review curriculum guides to determine if there is a need for revision.  The reviewing curriculum committee and Principal shall bring all recommendations for significant curriculum changes to the Board for consideration and approval.

 

      All teachers have professional obligations to the school program beyond regular classroom duties, and these obligations include work on curriculum committees.  It is expected that all teachers will make contributions to curriculum development.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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