Chapter 15

The chapter addressed Year Round Education. Do you feel Year Round Education would be beneficial, why or why not?

Chapter 14

To quote our text, “Curriculum guides serve as a source from which teachers may derive ideas for developing their own resource units, learning units, and lesson plans. A curriculum guide may be written by a group of teachers or planners, or by an individual.” Does your school system have curriculum guides currently in place? If yes, who worked to create the curriculum guides?

Chapter 13

What is your feeling about the author’s statement, “Whatever is taught in school should in some way possess transfer value, that is learning in school should have applicability…outside of school and after school years?” With the intense focus on testing, is education today enriching the lives of our students?

Chapter 12

Should schools use more norm-referenced or more criterion-referenced tests? Explain your reasoning.

Chapter 11

Chapter 11 addresses a topic called Styles of Teaching. In an era of standard based testing how large of a role does such things as dress, dramatic talent, and gestures affect teaching and learning? As a future administrator utilizing the standards how can you address these topics if they are so important?

Chapter 10

This chapter discussed the debate over the use of behavioral objectives.Do you feel that behavioral objectives are beneficial, why or why not?

Chapter 9

What are your feelings on Sleight’s prophetic comments from 1980—“It may be that children won’t attend schools at all, but attend classes in their homes, taking lessons through the computer with the teacher talking to them through a video image?” What implications do you think this would have for student learning and achievement?