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Curriculum
CURRICULUM
The Word: Curriculum
• Latin: Running course
• Scotland 1603: Carriage way, road
• United States 1906: Course of study
• United States, 1940: Plan for learning (study)
What is curriculum?
• Content
• Assessment
Grouping and Pacing
• Introduction/Closure
• Products
Teaching Strategies
• Learning Activities
Resources
Extension Activities
Differentiation
Characteristics of Exemplary
Curriculum
• Powerful knowledge goals, representative or generative
topics, and big ideas
• Advance organizers that clarify prior knowledge, future
activities, and expectations
• Motivating introductory experiences
• Challenging and active learning activities
• Authentic resources and products
• Aligned assessment strategies and growth criteria, feedback,
debriefing, transfer and extension opportunities, interaction,
and support
• Interest-based applications and extensions
• Modifications that attend to powerful student differences
What is a curriculum model?
A model is a format for
curriculum design
developed to meet unique
needs, contexts, and/or
purposes. In order to
address these goals,
curriculum developers
design, reconfigure, or
rearrange one or more key
curriculum components.
Content
Assessment
Teaching
Learning
Curriculum Models
Products
Resources
Grouping
Extensions
Modifications
Reasons and Rationale for a
Curriculum Model Based on
Differences
Instructor answers student’s questions about Students answer each other’s questions, using
language instructor as an information resource
Classroom is quite Classroom is often noisy and busy
Instructor evaluates student learning Students evaluate their own learning; instructor
also evaluates
Activity Based Curriculum