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Strategic Plannning and Curriculum

1. Explain why you believe strategic planning and decision making are important in educational curriculum planning.

Strategic planning and decision making are important in educational curriculum planning because the stakes for a failure of a big-picture perspective of issue fronts in the educational context are extremely high. For the sake of the targets of education--the students--institutional coherence is essential. The learning process must not be corrupted by an environment that is unpredictable or so uncomfortable as to prevent meaningful instruction from taking place. If learning objectives are to be achieved, any difficulties or details of organizational management must be opaque to students. Further to that point, this is why, as Finch and Crunkilton explain, professional educators should be included on decision-making boards and committees. They are best suited to recognizing "alternatives to problems, the impact of various alternatives, and assembling data needed for decisions, as well as a number of other vital activities" (1999, p. 49).

2. Decision making in education involves two major areas. Distinguish between operational decision making and policy decision making. What experiences do you have with respect to each?

Operational decision making is the name given to the set of choices that fall to teachers and administrators who inhabit and run day-to-day activities of any educational institution. These are the people whose job it is to implement policies and programs (some of which they may have had a role in making and some of which they may be legally or contractually obliged to carry out irrespective of their preferences or expertise). On the other hand, it is possible, especially for teachers in a classroom setting, to refine and/or modify lesson plans, as the dynamics of instruction reveal themselves, or, alternatively, "identify possible changes needed in policy statements as reflected in the current missio...

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