Assignment 1 [20%] Week 3 – Week 7
CLO: Assess the educational management and culture of a school or educational organization using the key concepts in curriculum principles and planning. [PLO2, C5]
Tasks:
- This is an individual assignment.
- This assignment:
- requires you to have access to a school, learning center, or an educational organization. If you are employed in a school, learning center, or an educational organization, you may use your own school, learning center, or an educational organization to complete this assignment. Otherwise, you will need to find a school, learning center, or an educational organization that is willing to share information with you and to allows you to gather information from their administration or teachers.
- should aim to assess the impact of the overall educational management of the institution on curriculum change and curriculum improvement processes in your selected school, learning center, or an educational organization.
- Prepare a write up:
- demonstrate how the educational management of the selected learning institution can affect the changes and improvement in the curriculum based on the students’ performances and feedback to assure students’ engagement and good learning experience. Students to provide real examples taking into consideration a learning setting.
- illustrate how curriculum change and improvement help the institution/instructors to accommodate to different levels of learners. Students to tie cases mentioned above to concepts in curriculum principles and planning. Present your illustrative points of view, based on the research and personal examples.
The assignment should be organized accordingly, create necessary sub-topics in the write-up.
Prompt a:
- Background – Information about the learning institution selected
- Introduction –
- The curriculum development/change processes.
- Educational management model[s] of the selected institution.
- Body –
- demonstration [effects of school educational management on the curriculum change and improvement process]and;
- illustration [practical examples] of curriculum change and improvement on the existing courses/subjects.
- Personal reflection –
- Your learning from this task.
How have the findings from this task impacted your thoughts on educational and curriculum management? You are encouraged to use your personal experience and reading to support your views.
- Conclusion
- References
Prompt b:
- Introduction – Illustration [how curriculum change/improvement helps the institution/instructors to accommodate different levels of learners]
- Body –
- share [some practical examples] of curriculum change and improvement processes that could help the institution/instructors to accommodate to different levels of learners and;
- relate the practice to any specific principles of curriculum change.
- Personal reflection –
- Provide your suggestions on how institutions could improve on their educational & curriculum management to accommodate the different levels of learners. You are encouraged to use your personal experience and reading to support your views.
- Conclusion
- References
* Every submission will be sent for a plagiarism check using SafeAssign via the Assignment platform in BlackBoard. The plagiarism rate must be less than 20%.
Format:
- Font type: Times New Roman
- Font Size: 12
- Spacing: 1.5 between lines; 2.0 between paragraphs
- Word limit: 1000 – 1500 words [Each prompt]
- Reference/In-text: Harvard Referencing [Min. 5]
Marking Scheme
Marking guidelines: Refer to rubrics.
| Mark range | Descriptors |
| 9-10 marks | · Critically analyses the major principles of the educational management theories. Insightful and thorough analysis of the theories.
· Personal ideas are triangulated well with research evidence, involves crosschecking multiple data sources of information to ensure that the data are valid and free from bias, and to evaluates the extent to which all evidence converges. · At least 5 scholarly sources are used to address the issue on educational management and curriculum change. References and in-text citations are correctly included. · Excellent quality of work and well-organized. A minimal amount of mistakes with grammar, spelling and punctuation. · Clear paraphrasing, summarizing and synthesizing included |
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6-8 marks |
· Critically analyses the major principles of the educational management theories. Thorough analysis of some of the theories. · There is clear and comprehensible research evidence to show analysis to a definite extend. · Good quality and well- organized. Majority of the subheadings are clear and concise. · At least 4 scholarly sources are used to address the issue on educational management and curriculum change. Most references and in- text citations are correctly included. · Major clear paraphrasing, summarizing and synthesizing included. |
| 3-5 marks |
· Fair review of the principles and the educational management theories · Includes minimal personal reflections. Superficial analysis of the theories. · Minimal research evidence to analyse the theories is included in the essay. · Majority of the subheadings are not clear and concise. · Moderate level of writing skills with many mistakes with grammar, spelling and punctuation. · At least 3 scholarly sources are used to address the issue on educational management and curriculum change. · References and in-text citations are not correctly included for certain parts. · Minimal paraphrasing, summarizing and synthesizing included
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1-3 marks |
· Poor review of the principles and the educational management theories · Includes very little to no minimal personal reflections. · There is not much analysis of theories. · Poor quality and lack of organization. The subheadings are not clear and too lengthy. · Poor writing skills with major mistakes with grammar, spelling and punctuation · Lacking in scholarly sources to address the issue on educational management and curriculum change or most of the sources are not scholarly articles. · Poor display of in-text citation and referencing using the Harvard referencing system.
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0 mark
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· No submission |
