GE 6115 - Principles, Methods, Development, and Assessment of Curriculum

This course examines how curriculum is developed, as well as, the approach to design and implementation. Strategies for collaboration with peer educators and colleagues toward the development and modification, scope and sequence, pacing, spiraling, integration, graphic organization, and mapping will all be an integral part of this course. This course is geared towards classroom teachers who are interested in understanding major American curriculum movements and their underlying philosophies. Coverage spans all major curriculum processes such as development, classroom use, and evaluation by emphasizing the importance of a clearly defined purpose of education as a first step in curriculum development or revision, and as a necessity for classroom use and evaluation.

3 credits