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Product expected of WIT Advanced Participants: A Complete Curriculum Web

What is a complete curriculum web?

A curriculum web is a set of interlinked web pages designed to facilitate a set of related learning objectives. This can be as simple as a list of links to outside web pages to an elaborately constructed web "space" carefully aligned to detailed outcomes.

Following are the elements of a complete curriculum. These elements make up the "curriculum guide" or teaching guide that you will develop to go with your Curriculum Web: 

  1. Aim:  one sentence (more or less) description of overall purpose of curriculum, including audience and the topic
  2. Rationale:  paragraph describing why aim is worth achieving. This section would include assessment of needs.
  3. Audience and pre-requisites: describes who the curriculum is for and the prior knowledge, skills, and attitudes of those learners likely to be successful with the curriculum. (This is a further elaboration of the audience briefly described in the Aim.)
  4. Description of subject-matter:  designation of what area of content, facts, arena of endeavor, that the curriculum deals with.  (This is a further elaboration of the "topic" description in the Aim.)
  5. Learning objectives:  detailed list of the learning outcomes expected from participation in the curriculum. This section would include a discussion of how the curriculum supports national, state, and local standards.
  6. Instructional plan:  describes the activities the learners are going to engage in, and the sequence of those activities.  Also describes what the TEACHER is to do in order to facilitate those activities. (This is like the traditional "lesson plan" except for a curriculum it may include more than one lesson.)
  7. Materials:  lists materials necessary for successful teaching of the curriculum. Includes a list of web pages. Also includes the actual materials (worksheets and web pages) prepared by the curriculum developer, any special requirements for classroom setup and supplies, and a list of any specific hardware and software requirements.
  8. Plans for assessment and evaluation:  includes plan for assessing learning and evaluating the curriculum as a whole. May include description of a model project, sample exam questions, or other elements of assessment.  Also should include plan for evaluating the curriculum as a whole, including feedback from learners.
(See WIT Curriculum Guide for examples of each element.) 

Following are some examples of Curriculum Webs for you to explore:

See Assessing Educational Web Sites module for a rubric for evaluating curriculum webs.

Copyright notice:

Anything you produce during WIT, and submit in satisfaction of the requirements of successful completion of WIT, becomes PUBLIC DOMAIN. It is not acceptable to try to claim copyright or to limit others' use of your WIT-created materials.

If your module or lesson plan includes materials that you created prior to or outside of WIT, these materials CAN be copyrighted, but they must not reside within the /pub/wit directory (or any subdirectories) on the CUIP server. Rather, these copyrighted materials should reside either in your personal directory on the CUIP server or on some other server. Please contact Craig Cunningham with questions about this policy.

 

  
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