Overview
Description
Study and discussion of development and improvement of curriculum practices, with special stress upon working out procedures suited to this area.
Units
Lecture3
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate increased knowledge of curricula foundations, theories, and designs by developing a personal curriculum orientation essay and explaining this personal perspective from a visual and verbal representation of the theory.
- demonstrate understanding of the basic principles of curriculum development from a series of guest speakers as well as personal investigative analysis. These understandings will be reflected through weekly essays that are shared with the course instructor and other students in the course.
- demonstrate increased knowledge of current issues and priorities in curriculum nationally, statewide, district wide, and in the classroom and use this knowledge to conduct and write a case study based on research and interviews with key individuals on their perspectives of curriculum in the school, district, and state.
- write a pro-con argument that captures one area of the curriculum that challenges students and teachers in secondary schools today.
- design an interdisciplinary curriculum using a vertical or horizontal alignment in collaberation with other students in the course.