Curriculum Leadership

by Allan A. Glatthorn

This text helps current and aspiring administrators, teachers, and curriculum directors successfully restructure, enhance, and implement school K–12 curriculum. Now in its Fifth Edition , this foundational book highlights 21st century educational ideas and advocacy, while also remaining focused on tried and true strategies for meeting state and national standards in today’s diverse classrooms. With the support of this thought-provoking and extensively researched text, readers will develop a working and thorough foundation of curriculum to effectively implement in the classrooms of the future.

Genres: Education

372 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1987

Reviews

[Ronald J. Pauleus · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very helpful content is shared and great insight on leadership in the curriculum.


This is the definition of curriculum the author used:
"The curriculum is a set of plans made for guiding learning in the schools, usually represented in retrievable documents of several levels of generality, and the actualization of those plans in the classroom, as experienced by the learners and environment that also influences what is learned."

Here is a powerful quote about leadership and character from this book also:
“The question is not whether an individual can lead but more appropriately can they lead with integrity, compassion, and good judgment?"

[Tayler Morrell · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had to read this for my grad class - all about the prices of changing a school district’s curriculum. And I hated it. The book is geared toward those who want to be administrators or principals and I only want to a simple teacher who makes good quality lesson plans and unit plans. This book referred to a LOT with little depth. It was a lot more breadth. And it kind of talked in circles. It didn’t help that our professor had us read chapters out to order…honestly, it may have been the way the course was taught more than my distaste for the actual textbook.

[Patti Irwin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Unlike the other book for this class, this book pushed, challenged, and stretched my knowledge of curriculum. I had rented the text but plan on buying it because there are things I want to refer to.

[Ashley]

Read for class...a very dense book that has surface level information.

[Wendy · Rating 1 out of 5]

theoretical not practical, wordy, formal, filled with "education-ese"

[Alecia Amezcua · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has great information in it. I learned a lot from it. It could be a little more exciting though.

[Robin Malcolm · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay, let me first qualify this. This is an important book for anyone in instructional leadership.

I only gave it three stars because I had such a hard time reading it. It's loaded with great information, and specific strategies for developing curriculum in academic settings, and for making changes to existing curriculum and its implementation. But it's hard to read, especially for someone without any hook to hang it on. The chapters are long, which means that when I was trying to read it chapter by chapter, there was really too much to digest in one setting. I resorted to recreating the book's outline as I read, and when I did that, that was when I was really able to mine all the valuable helps and experience the book contains.

Textbook in a textbook style, but with great information for a niche reader. Which is what it's intended to do.

[Jayne · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a great reference for students of advanced Instructional Design and Technology. Assessments styles and strategies for evaluation are in plain terms be used to incorporate into a paper or research article. The in-depth explanation of curriculum evaluation and the process are easy to follow as well. Great text

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the text I use in the graduate course in curriculum I teach to aspiring principals. Very solid, if occasionally dense.

[Polly Vaughan · Rating 1 out of 5]

Don't bother.