This course combines curriculum theory and practice. Understanding both is necessary to make sense of fundamental curriculum relationships and establish a framework to place specific instances in perspective. The curriculum's basic principles are included, applied, and adapted if necessary to various settings.
Prerequisite Courses
Course Outcomes
After successfully completing the course, the learner will be able to:
- Identify and interpret factors influencing curriculum planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of the learning environment.
- Write a rationale for the selection of curricula materials for a given program and student population.
- Identify at least three curriculum perspectives and compare their strengths and limitations concerning a district or school program she/ he is familiar with.
- Define subject-centered, learner-centered, teacher-centered, and society-centered conceptions of curriculum, and describe their impact on instructional decision making in the classroom.
- Make a critical analysis of the process of curriculum change in a given state, district or school to highlight strengths and limitations and suggest lines of improvement.
- Use theories of curriculum evaluation to write a rubric for assessing learning outcomes of a familiar district, state, or school curriculum unit or program
- identify the underlying assumptions and features of different conceptions of curriculum and appraise various models of curriculum design, development, and evaluation;
- Analyze the forms of curriculum organization related to educational practice and explain the theoretical constructs that underlie school and classroom curriculum practices.
- Use curriculum planning and development theories to design a curriculum unit to be implemented in a familiar state, district, or school program.